Black Unity
One composition across two LP sides, with Stanley Clarke on bass.
Pharoah Sanders
- Recorded
- 1971
- Studio
- A and R Recording, New York City
- Label
- Impulse!
- Producer
- Lee Young
Black Unity is a single composition by Sanders, recorded in New York in 1971. It fills two LP sides of 18:28 and 18:51, and the 1997 CD reissue joins them as one 37:21 track. Stanley Clarke and Cecil McBee play bass, Norman Connors and Billy Hart drums, and Joe Bonner piano. Hannibal Marvin Peterson is on trumpet and Carlos Garnett on flute and tenor saxophone. Sanders adds soprano saxophone and balafon, and Lawrence Killian plays conga, balafon, talking drum and percussion.
Lee Young produced it, Tony May engineered it, and Thembi Sanders wrote the liner notes. Promises has since been compared to it as another album built from one composition.
Track listing
- Black Unity (Part I)18:28
- Black Unity (Part II)18:51
Personnel
- Pharoah Sanders soprano and tenor saxophone, balafon
- Hannibal Marvin Peterson trumpet
- Carlos Garnett flute, tenor saxophone
- Joe Bonner piano
- Stanley Clarke bass
- Cecil McBee bass
- Norman Connors drums
- Billy Hart drums
- Lawrence Killian conga, balafon, talking drum, percussion
More from Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah's First (1965), Tauhid (1967), Karma (1969), Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun) (1970), Thembi (1971), Live at the East (1972), Pharoah (1977), The Trance of Seven Colors (1994), Promises (2021), Jewels of Thought
Sources
- Black Unity, Wikipedia
- Black Unity (Impulse! AS-9219), Discogs