Jewels of Thought

by Pharoah Sanders

Jewels of Thought cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1969
  • Label: Impulse!
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 35:45
  • Community rating: 4.55/5 from 5 ratings

Artists on this release: Leon Thomas, Idris Muhammad, Cecil McBee, Richard Davis, Roy Haynes

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Following the success of his iconic album 'Karma,' Pharoah Sanders continued his spiritual quest with this equally powerful album. The music is built on deep, meditative grooves from a rhythm section featuring two basses and two drummers. Over this, Sanders's tenor saxophone screams and cries, Lonnie Liston Smith's electric piano adds cosmic textures, and Leon Thomas's signature yodeling provides a unique vocal element. It's a definitive piece of Spiritual Jazz.

Genres

Descriptors: spirituality, long-form, spacey, ritualistic, expansive

Tracklist

  1. Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah (15:05)
  2. Sun in Aquarius (20:40)

Credits

  • Pharoah Sanders - primary artist, tenor saxophone, contrabass clarinet, flute [reed], piano [african thumb piano], chimes [orchestra], percussion
  • Cecil McBee - bass, percussion
  • George Whiteman - design
  • Idris Muhammad - drums, percussion
  • George Sawtelle - engineer
  • Chuck Stewart - photography by [cover & liner]
  • Lonnie Liston Smith - piano, flute [african], piano [african thumb piano], percussion
  • Ed Michel - producer
  • Leon Thomas - vocals, percussion
  • Roy Haynes - drums [right channel]
  • Richard Davis - bass, percussion [left channel]

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