Pharoah
Sanders rose to prominence playing and recording with John and Alice Coltrane
after getting his start with Su Ra in 1961. After recording on Ascension and
eight other seminal releases with John Coltrane, Sanders worked extensively
with Alice Coltrane, playing on albums such as Journey in Satchidananda; Ptah,
the El Daoud; and Cosmic Music. Sanders, the most interesting jazz man in the
world, has played with everyone from Santana, John Lee Hooker, and Bill Laswell
to McCoy Tyner, Gary Bartz, and Ornette Coleman. Sanders last performed in
Portland at the 2010 Jazz Festival to an enthusiastic sold out audience. The
GRAMMY® Award-winner was recently selected for the NEA Jazz Master award and
will be performing at the ceremony in Washington, D.C. in April, 2016.
Pharoah
Sanders will perform as a special guest with Ravi Coltrane, Geri Allen, Reggie
Workman, Andrew Cyrille, and Brandee Younger as part of the John Coltrane @ 90
celebration. The program title, Universal Consciousness, is from a 1971
impulse! album in which All Music Guide's Thom Jurek remarked, "Alice
Coltrane's Universal Consciousness stands as her classic work. As a testament
to the articulation of her spiritual principles, Universal Consciousness stands
even above World Galaxy as a recording where the medium of music, both composed
and improvised, perfectly united the realms of body (in performance), speech
(in the utterance of individual instrumentalists and group interplay), and mind
(absolute focus) for the listener to take into her or his own experience."
Where:
Newmark
Theatre
1111 SW
Broadway
Portland, OR
97205
P5 Box
Office: 855-797-3952
When:
Saturday,
February 27 at 7:00pm
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