Live at the East
Three long pieces, opening with Healing Song, which Harmony Holiday heard as a jazz funeral for Coltrane.
Pharoah Sanders, 1972
- Released
- 1972
- Label
- Impulse!
- Type
- live
Live at the East has three pieces: Healing Song at 21:43, Memories of J. W. Coltrane at 12:51 and Lumkili at 8:33. The band is Marvin Peterson on trumpet, Carlos Garnett on flute, Harold Vick on tenor saxophone, Joe Bonner on piano and harmonium, Stanley Clarke and Cecil McBee on bass, Norman Connors and Billy Hart on drums, and Lawrence Killian on congas and balafon. It reached number two on Billboard's jazz chart in February 1973.
Writing in Frieze, Harmony Holiday called Healing Song "Pharoah's jazz funeral for John Coltrane."
Track listing
- Healing Song21:43
- Memories of J. W. Coltrane12:51
- Lumkili8:33
Personnel
- Pharoah Sanders tenor saxophone
- Marvin Peterson trumpet
- Carlos Garnett flute, voice
- Harold Vick tenor saxophone, voice
- Joe Bonner piano, harmonium
- Stanley Clarke bass
- Cecil McBee bass
- Norman Connors drums
- Billy Hart drums
- Lawrence Killian congas, balafon
More from Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah's First (1965), Tauhid (1967), Karma (1969), Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun) (1970), Thembi (1971), Pharoah (1977), The Trance of Seven Colors (1994), Promises (2021), Jewels of Thought, Black Unity
Sources
- Live at the East, Wikipedia
- Live At The East (master release), Discogs
- Pharoah Sanders in Billboard, 1969-1974, Current Research in Jazz (Pierre Crépon) (2022)