Pharoah Sanders: Live At The East (Impulse AS 9227)

PHAROAH SANDERS' Live At The East is a mellow contrast to the furious power of his previous album, Black Unity, which used a large horn and percussion section and featured little of his own fiery sax work. Although many of the musicians heard on Unity are present on this set, the emphasis here is on Sanders, and although Live is not as consistently intense as his earlier work or his primal collaborations with Coltrane in the mid-'60s, it further proves his profound lyricism and command of his horn at every emotional level.