New CD ESP 4008 Pharaoah Sanders Quintet / Pharoah's First Quintet

Reissued and Expanded!
Pharoah Sander’s classic 1964 session, his first as a leader. Remastered from the original tapes and presented here for the first time with insightful and entertaining interview clips detailing Pharoah’s early experiences as a young musician in New York.

Personnel

Pharoah Sanders: tenor saxophone
Stan Foster: trumpet
Jane Getz: piano
William Bennett: bass
Marvin Pattillo: percussion

Track Listing

1.	Seven by Seven	26:20
2.	Bethera	23:40
3.	Bernard Stollman meets Pharoah Sanders	0:57
4.	Coming to New York	0:28
5.	Meeting Sun Ra	1:23
6.	Meeting John Coltrane	2:11
7.	Comments on other musicians	1:51
8.	Playing with Don Cherry	2:15
9.	The Scene	1:18
10.	Why the music changes	2:11

All compositions by Pharaoh Sanders (2005 Syndicore Music BMI/Ferrell Sanders Music BMI). All interviews 2005 MDA Music, Inc.

Credits

Recorded September 20th 1964. Engineer: Jerry Newman. Cover design: Jordan Matthews. Photos by Ray Foss. Tracks 1 & 2 mastered for CD by Bernard Fox.

Press Quotes

"a real historical gem" - The Daily Jazz

"a crucial workshop puzzle-piece that gives historians of improvised music one very important look at Pharoah Sanders and his young, big ideas." - Clifford Allen, All About Jazz

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