Hardbopjazz Posted March 30, 2019 Report Share Posted March 30, 2019 (edited) Sax Legend Pharoah Sanders Will Miss Seattle Dates at Jazz Alley Due to a Broken Hip. https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/03/29/39759025/sax-legend-pharoah-sanders-will-miss-seattle-dates-at-jazz-alley-due-to-a-broken-hip?fbclid=IwAR3ML6NZVQpvm8p3iazdqZUDOsIB6h9-iIIpU9Lf0kwKRM19uLRA9VrIaYk Edited March 30, 2019 by Hardbopjazz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted March 30, 2019 Report Share Posted March 30, 2019 Heard about this the other day. A broken hip is no joke. Hope he mends soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted March 30, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2019 2 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said: Heard about this the other day. A broken hip is no joke. Hope he mends soon. Especially when you’re 78 years old, it takes a lot longer to heal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Berger Posted March 30, 2019 Report Share Posted March 30, 2019 Oh no! Heal quickly Pharoah! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin V Posted March 30, 2019 Report Share Posted March 30, 2019 Get well, Mr. Sanders! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HutchFan Posted March 30, 2019 Report Share Posted March 30, 2019 Best wishes to Pharoah for a smooth & speedy recovery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted March 30, 2019 Report Share Posted March 30, 2019 His previous jazz alley performance was also cancelled, on Sept. 12, 2001. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 31, 2019 Report Share Posted March 31, 2019 Stick around! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pim Posted March 31, 2019 Report Share Posted March 31, 2019 Hope he gets well soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrdlu Posted April 1, 2019 Report Share Posted April 1, 2019 Recommended: "Message From Home", an excellent album. It has the vibe of Pharoah's Impulse albums from the late 60s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bresna Posted April 1, 2019 Report Share Posted April 1, 2019 Get well soon Pharoah. I'm lucky that I got to see him several times. One of my favorite Sanders CDs: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted April 1, 2019 Report Share Posted April 1, 2019 I saw him at WJF earlier this year (with Bartz and Co.) and he was outstanding, obviously having a great time and playing his ass off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted April 1, 2019 Report Share Posted April 1, 2019 I saw him back in the 70's at some long-gone Philly Jazz club (don't remember the name, might have been "Memphis"). He and the group played very well, but were clearly having issues with the club management about set length and stuff, and the musicians were clearly angry, especially Steve Neil, the bass player, who stayed on stage and played an extended bass solo, glaring at the club manager, after the rest of the group had exited. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted April 1, 2019 Report Share Posted April 1, 2019 Ballsy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bresna Posted April 1, 2019 Report Share Posted April 1, 2019 51 minutes ago, felser said: I saw him back in the 70's at some long-gone Philly Jazz club (don't remember the name, might have been "Memphis"). He and the group played very well, but were clearly having issues with the club management about set length and stuff, and the musicians were clearly angry, especially Steve Neil, the bass player, who stayed on stage and played an extended bass solo, glaring at the club manager, after the rest of the group had exited. If I remember correctly, overly long bass solos were a bit of a trademark for Pharoah's shows. Did he "play" the metal bowl then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted April 1, 2019 Report Share Posted April 1, 2019 (edited) I can recall seeing Pharoah ‘playing’ metal bowl circa 1990. Hope he gets well soon ! Edited April 1, 2019 by sidewinder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjazzg Posted April 1, 2019 Report Share Posted April 1, 2019 He wasn't particularly steady on his feet due to mobility issues when I saw him eighteen months ago, a broken hip isn't going to help. Here's hoping he mends well. He played masterfully, if a little sparingly, that night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted April 2, 2019 Report Share Posted April 2, 2019 dog the 1st time i saw pharoah i was sitting closer to billy higgins than i was sitting to billy hart last week and i was settling hella close to billy hart last week. they did a 20 min. "Ole", and it was freakin' the nutzest thing ive ever experienced Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gheorghe Posted April 2, 2019 Report Share Posted April 2, 2019 I remember one of the first more "far out" recordings in my jazz collection was his "Live at the East" which also features a vocal group, has a wonderful "Healing Song" with that chantings by a vocal group and that superb tenor sound of Pharoah. I fell in love with that and it stuck. During the late70's, early 80's Pharoah, who like Archie Shepp had been one of the frontmen of "free-jazz" switched back to the regular standard quartet formations with p,b and drums and mixed some of his former repertoir with some older stuff like standard ballads and boppish tunes like let's say Tadd Dameron's "Misty Night"......, that's how I first saw him in 1985, when he was in his prime, about 45 years old. I saw him again in 2013 or 14, and he still had a lot to say and it was a powerful concert, but even then he seemed to have difficulties walking. Too bad I didn't try to ask to meet him I would have liked to ask him to sign me the "Life in the East" and tell him that I purchased it when I was almost a kid and how much I loved his music since that moment....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrdlu Posted April 2, 2019 Report Share Posted April 2, 2019 Kevin Bresnahan mentioned "Crescent With Love". Back in the 90s, I was in a record store browsing and I heard this Trane piece playing. I had most of Trane's records and I thought "What's this?". I asked the guy at the counter which new Trane album it was, and he said it was Pharaoh. I have never heard a tenor saxophonist sound as close as that to Trane. At the time, I had never heard Pharaoh play without a lot of screeching. Very beautiful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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