Elevation

by Pharoah Sanders

Elevation cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: March 1974
  • Label: Impulse!
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 47:19
  • Community rating: 4.03/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded live in Los Angeles, this release showcases the saxophonist deeply immersed in intensely rhythmic, ecstatic spiritual jazz, pushed to the limits by a dynamic, percussion-heavy rhythm section. The album balances tempestuous, screaming saxophone invocations with passages of profound, meditative serenity.

Genres

Descriptors: ritualistic, avant-garde

Tracklist

  1. Elevation
  2. Greeting To Saud (Brother McCoy Tyner)
  3. Ore-Se-Rere (Nigerian Juju HiLife)
  4. The Gathering
  5. Spiritual Blessing

Credits

  • Pharoah Sanders - primary artist, written-by, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, shaker, vocals, bells, percussion, written-by, percussion, vocals, percussion, arranged by, written-by, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, vocals, percussion
  • Bodhi Wind - illustration
  • Calvin Hill - bass, tambura [tamboura], bass, vocals
  • Lawrence Killian - congas, bell tree, percussion, congas, bell tree, vocals
  • Michael Carvin - drums, percussion, drums, vocals
  • Jimmy Hopps - percussion
  • John Blue - percussion, percussion, vocals
  • Joe Bonner - piano, horn [cow horn], flute [wood], piano, vocals, percussion, piano, horn [cow horn], flute [wood], vocals, percussion, harmonium, others instrument, flute

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