Sanders, Pharoah - Rejoice (180 Gram Vinyl, Gatefold LP Jacket, Remastered) DRGC680.4

Sanders, Pharoah - Rejoice (180 Gram Vinyl, Gatefold LP Jacket, Remastered) DRGC680.4A two LP set on Theresa, Rejoice features Pharoah Sanders in excellent form in 1981. Sanders sounds much more mellow than he had a decade earlier, often improvising in a style similar to late '50s John Coltrane, particularly on 'When Lights Are Low,' 'Moments Notice,' and 'Central Park West.' The personnel changes on many of the selections and includes such top players as pianists Joe Bonner and John Hicks, bassist Art Davis, drummers Elvin Jones and

the dashing Memphis wunderkind who'd engineered that album and charmed us all with his gentle wit and old-school savoir-faire

anything) that fortifies Giannascoli

Propelled by an airtight drum groove and lacerating guitar line

which claims boxing trash talk as proto-rap and turns it into a declaration of ongoing mastery

or bedroom

even if it's characters have more than a few

1 Never Grow Old (Live)

10 Only a Moment Ago

and drummer Al Foster - first played together as a band in 1999

'The Last Goodbye' is set to be the GRAMMY-nominated duo's most ambitious album to date

" but the rest of the record is all Hot Chocolate

This collection has been fully remastered from the original Monument Records mono master tapes