Jewels of Thought
by Pharoah Sanders
- 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
- Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah (15:05)
- 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]