Karma is a Jazz album by Pharoah Sanders, originally released in 1969. On Gatefold: 67 pressings tracked, owned by 25 collectors.
About
Consisting mainly of Pharoah Sanders’ most famous song, “The Creator Has a Master Plan,” <i>Karma</i> is the most widely known of the tenor sax giant’s Impulse! albums spanning 1966 to 1973. The song, co-written with vocalist Leon Thoma, is by turns meditative and declamatory, with a long, cyclical form that starts out of tempo, eases into a steady groove (loosely based on the “Acknowledgement” motif from John Coltrane’s <i>A Love Supreme</i>), states a main melody and several countermelodie, bursts into a joyous double-time romp, then repeats the whole proce. As a nearly album-length piece, it merits consideration alongside Ornette Coleman’s <i>Free Jazz</i> and Coltrane’s <i>Ascension</i> (the latter featuring Sanders). “Color,” another Sanders-Thomas song, rounds out <i>Karma</i> much more concisely, in a floating and ethereal vein that recalls Coltrane pieces such as “Dear Lord” and “After the Rain.” .
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Tracklist
Side A
- AThe Creator Has A Master Plan19:20
Side B
- BColors19:17
Sound DNA
- Jazz
- Avant-Garde & Free Jazz
- raw
- chaotic
- spiritual
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Julius WatkinsFRENCH HORN
- Leon ThomasPERCUSSION PERCUSSION, VOCALS VOCALS
- Lonnie Liston SmithPIANO
- Pharoah SandersTENOR SAXOPHONE TENOR SAXOPHONE, MUSIC BY TENOR SAXOPHONE, WRITTEN-BY
- Reggie WorkmanBASS
- Richard DavisBASS
- Billy HartDRUMS
- Freddie WaitsDRUMS
- James SpauldingFLUTE
- Nat BettisPERCUSSION
- Ron CarterBASS
25 collectors on Gatefold own this · 67 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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