And now he's gone. The music world has lost a giant. So grateful I lived in SF in the 1980s, where he lived, and got to see him often. RIP, Pharoah. Your music is an inspiration to millions.
Pharoah Sanders - Tenor Sax Eddie Henderson - Flugelhorn John Hicks - Piano Ray Drummond - Bass Idris Muhammad - Drums Dee Dee Dickerson, Bobby McFerrin, Vicki Randle, Ngoh Spencer - Vocals
It was this version, of this track, alongside 'Visions' by Stevie Wonder that made me listen to music in a different way. I was a child, and discovered both of these tracks around the same time. Stay blessed with our ancestors Pharaoh. 🙏
...awesome.... For me it was Ella.... Sounds strange yeah, sure until you learn what life for a coloured woman in the early 20th century was like. Such poise and humility these people have.... These are the lessons that we must pass on.
it's no understatement to say that Pharoah is a musical treasure of the highest & most sacred kind! Every time i listen to his music i am transported to a blissful realm where enlightenment and happiness exists in abundance!
only 7200 plays? A disgrace. Wake up, people, and hear the pure sound of the great Pharoah - whose music truly is a healing force in the universe. Magnificent.
+megis ynynef People of Today is not in tune. Most people that listen to this music has some sort of Knowledge of Self and Culture. Keep Hope Alive though,,,
Cm9-Dm7-Gm7-Am7. Rinse. Repeat. How they manage to keep four chords interesting for almost severn minutes is beyond my comprehension, but they surely do. John Hicks (p), Ray Drummond (b), Idris Muhammad (d). BTW, one of the singers is Bobby McFerrin, a couple of years before he recorded his first album.
Yeah it IS amazing. Pharoah is a little like John Coltrane turned rock star. But I dont mean that in a disparaging way. Pharoah, like his mentor JC and many other predecessors, has a clear mission of carrying a message of spiritual uplift through music.
Absolutely Feel Good Music at its Finest, you gotta have peace and love to sit and Enjoy this Awesome Classic. Heavenly, Grown Folks Music all Day Long.
We have lost another legend. Rest in peace Pharoah Sanders. Thank you for blessing us with such a wonderful body of work. Your music will live on eternally. I’m fortunate enough to have been able to see and hear him many years ago in Newark, NJ. Absolutely beautiful performance!🔥👏🏾❤
Only just heard of his passing. There were tears of sadness but also of joy knowing he left us with so many wonderful moments as he completed his journey here. May your horn blow forever with God and the angels in Heaven. RIP you ol fader!
🇺🇦✌🏾💛We gotta’ have peace & love.... We gotta have freedom & more worldwide freedom for ev‘rryone! 🇺🇦✌🏾💛Many prayers of blessings along with lovin’support from the Lord-Saviour for our brothers & sisters of the Ukraine!!!
Man I didn't even know that was a thing! Took me down a bit of a rabbit hole. Seems both corny and a lot of fun, and weirdly authentic! I thought they had ditched the authenticity in the early 70s. Glad to see jazz lives everywhere
SO happy I got to see Pharoah at the Village Vanguard from about 15 feet away many years ago. It was a late show on a weeknight so there weren't that many people even there. At one point he told us he was going to welcome a friend of his to the stage to play with him: Freddie Hubbard, who'd been sitting by himself about ten feet to my right! It was dark in the club. I never noticed him! They were, needless to say, wonderful.
Thank you Pharoah Sanders and company for this most delightful music ❤️ Thank you to my dear late brother Samuel for introducing me to this awesome music. Still my favourite. Music at its Finest ❤️❤️❤️
.... when I first heard this in 1993 .... when I first to could fully comprehend the depth of it all..... I knew at that very moment that my soul had evolved.
The "Brooklyn funk essentials" do a very good rendition of "The creator has a master plan" ... I get all of the young ones to listen.... Soul inspiring...
The best by a long chalk , pharoah reaffirms my belief in a being greater than humanity. By far the most amazing piece of dance music created. If you can't feel this you are dead. Love to the world peace
Man just the first 25 seconds affirms the value of life, Hicks has such fluidity, the voices and instrumentation are very complimentary, the flugalhorn is outstanding. Man, this stopped me in my tracks.
Probably duplicating myself, bút what a phenomenal set of musicians! Truly reaches the soul! John Hicks is so energetic and lyrical, what a loss for humanity :-) At least recordings of his work are available to remember his contributions.. has a wonderful discordance that brings intrigue, the trumpet and flugelhorn solos are exceptional!
Ever so grateful 2 hv watched the Great Pharoah Sanders live at a small and intimate venue called Dingwalls in London UK. That night I got spiritualized by his music
Just as the first note of this exquisite tune will continue to travel through space, backward in time, so too will our memorialization of it (on this thread). It will also mark our brief time here, sharing our appreciation of this gift, long after we have moved on. Much peace and love to you all, as we journey to the One.
First heard this on the radio going to work & wondered how could I have missed hearing this inall my years of listening. Pharoah wails.. love that opening tenor cry. Hick's as always plays beautifully. great track.
I remember when my dad brought this album home. He played this a few times and Think about the One. By then, I was really into jazz. My dad called this hard jazz. I think I was 11 or 12 at the time. Great times with AM radio WBEE in Harvey,Illinois. Wally Muhammad and Marty Faye. Smooth Jazz is great but this stuff here, fiyah...
Very sad. Even though Larry Smith continued playing at WBEZ the local NPR station until they decided to downgrade & eventually dump "jazz" . Mark Ruffin still swings on one of those satellite jazz stations & occasionally produces music. And it was Wally Muhammad who hosted a Saturday Jazz program.
Such a classic piece of all out happiness and celebration of life. This and Astral Travelling are Pharoah Sanders finest for me. In fact, the Thembi album is a masterpiece
Pharoah Sanders held in very high esteem in the Jazz world as one of the finest ever, especially with his brand of spiritually etherall Jazz, always value for money, certainly one of the greatest saxophonists to have blown on the instrument, with tracks like the Gathering & Jitu to his bow, a living legend
And now he's gone. The music world has lost a giant. So grateful I lived in SF in the 1980s, where he lived, and got to see him often. RIP, Pharoah. Your music is an inspiration to millions.
Yes it's sad indeed - that's so good you got to see him play.... one in a million x x
lucky basterd! I can't imagine the atmosphere of his playing the pure emotion and energy.
@@MrOldmanjenkin1 Also got to see the Dead in the best venues.
Rest In Peace Pharoah Sanders. Thank you for all the joy you brought into my life.
The Pianist Is Killing It
He's the reason I'm signing up for piano lessons soon
John Hicks
@@akindele13 CORRECTION: "The GREAT "John Hicks on piano
John Hicks dancing on the keys
when i try to practice along with this on guitar, it's the piano I'm chasing
That sax just SCREAMS out in pain, in ecstasy, in every emotion you could ever conjure up...
I don't like using the word "feel" in music but GODDAMN this has tons of feel
You are so right. Ecstasy and revelation and agony all at once.
Man, you totally get the piece!
Joy.
carves the etches of my sentient soul, music for the essence!!
I was lucky to watch him perform in Nigeria in the 80s
Pharoah Sanders - Tenor Sax
Eddie Henderson - Flugelhorn
John Hicks - Piano
Ray Drummond - Bass
Idris Muhammad - Drums
Dee Dee Dickerson, Bobby McFerrin, Vicki Randle, Ngoh Spencer - Vocals
some serious cats there
Thanks a bunch for sharing , The Quiet Revolution !
Look at this lineup!
Much appreciated, all star cast!
No kidding, top notch all the way around!
Damn! This is why some people love jazz. Sometimes magic happens.
It was this version, of this track, alongside 'Visions' by Stevie Wonder that made me listen to music in a different way. I was a child, and discovered both of these tracks around the same time.
Stay blessed with our ancestors Pharaoh. 🙏
...awesome.... For me it was Ella.... Sounds strange yeah, sure until you learn what life for a coloured woman in the early 20th century was like.
Such poise and humility these people have.... These are the lessons that we must pass on.
This song makes me feel like I'm in church and Pharoah is the minister preaching the gospel. We want to be free.
He whom the sun sets free is free indeed
He whom the son sets free is free indeed
YES ! Gotta have peace and love!
I feel i am a gorilla scaping and killing people
God spoke to us through Pharoah's horn.
Thank you God for giving us Pharoah Sanders, thank you Atlanta for giving us John Hicks!!!
Pharoah Sanders - you helped to raise my energy over the years. I am forever grateful. Terrie
John Hicks always plays something that raise your eyebrows
it's no understatement to say that Pharoah is a musical treasure of the highest & most sacred kind! Every time i listen to his music i am transported to a blissful realm where enlightenment and happiness exists in abundance!
It's the very first thing we teach the kids.. You have to love ALL music. Unchain your mind... freedom awaits...
Pharoah Sanders, making the world a better place one track at a time.
Nobody can screech on a horn like the Pharoah!!!
The end of this song makes me feel like I'm flying off into heaven
This track shoots me to the cosmos..
Ooh MAAAN, ME TOO and I'm not a beatnik.
SAME!!!! EVERY time!
One of my fave piano jazz works. Though Pharaoh blew his heart out, John Hicks was just in another dimension.
Thanks for sharing the pianist's name
We get it often in the land of Oz and everyone digs it Luke you say...
YES.
only 7200 plays? A disgrace. Wake up, people, and hear the pure sound of the great Pharoah - whose music truly is a healing force in the universe. Magnificent.
+megis ynynef People of Today is not in tune. Most people that listen to this music has some sort of Knowledge of Self and Culture. Keep Hope Alive though,,,
+megis ynynef I didn;t write the above comment and I don't understand how it came to appear here.
+megis ynynef Sounds like bullshit. But okey dokey.
Amen
Its hard to find this stuff
Cm9-Dm7-Gm7-Am7. Rinse. Repeat. How they manage to keep four chords interesting for almost severn minutes is beyond my comprehension, but they surely do. John Hicks (p), Ray Drummond (b), Idris Muhammad (d). BTW, one of the singers is Bobby McFerrin, a couple of years before he recorded his first album.
thank you kindly sir
Thanks for the knowledge dropped
How many chords are used in a regular piece of music?
How about mentioning Dr. Eddie Henderson on trumpet?
Yeah it IS amazing. Pharoah is a little like John Coltrane turned rock star. But I dont mean that in a disparaging way. Pharoah, like his mentor JC and many other predecessors, has a clear mission of carrying a message of spiritual uplift through music.
Absolutely Feel Good Music at its Finest, you gotta have peace and love to sit and Enjoy this Awesome Classic. Heavenly, Grown Folks Music all Day Long.
Peace, Love & Freedom. Values worth fighting for.
Some things need not be explained just appreciated. Thank you "Lord" for blessing me with hearing ears!!!
And to share our limited existance with such talented people!
Walking down memory lane'
RIP master of spirit music PHAROAH SANDERS - ascended yesterday: Glory - gratitude - eternal blessings - Nam-myoho-renge-kyo - safe astral travels and thank you sir
❤😊 Great music!!
Forever Beloved, Forever and Truly Pharoah. Thank you for showing us the Colors of Freedom. The best color? Joy!!
RIP Pharoah.. one of my all time favourites..
Jazz at its finest!!!!!
Alright, now say it again.
This is the most joyous song I have ever heard.
We have lost another legend. Rest in peace Pharoah Sanders. Thank you for blessing us with such a wonderful body of work. Your music will live on eternally. I’m fortunate enough to have been able to see and hear him many years ago in Newark, NJ. Absolutely beautiful performance!🔥👏🏾❤
Only just heard of his passing. There were tears of sadness but also of joy knowing he left us with so many wonderful moments as he completed his journey here. May your horn blow forever with God and the angels in Heaven. RIP you ol fader!
I never heard this version before today but it moved me to tears. Beautiful!
The best version as far as I am concerned
Can't go wrong with some Pharoah Sanders.
This is absolutely beautiful... what a legend you will always be, Master Pharoah Sanders 💖🕊👑
Absolutely amazing classic from the time it was released in 1980. Big up' my brother.
RIP Maestro❤
one of the greatest songs of all time!
John Hicks blows my mind ..
🇺🇦✌🏾💛We gotta’ have peace & love.... We gotta have freedom & more worldwide freedom for ev‘rryone!
🇺🇦✌🏾💛Many prayers of blessings along with lovin’support from the Lord-Saviour for our brothers & sisters of the Ukraine!!!
Oct.13: Happy birthday Jazz Saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. Thank you and God bless. Thanks for the upload. Blessings
This tune brings tears to my eyes! I absolutely LOVE this tune!!!!!
This is a total masterpiece, full stop.
Man this version really caught my soul - that horn capturing birth's raw struggle balanced by the sweet background vocals hope and promise. Classic!
Wow - that is a great interpretation - spot on! :)
Lovely comment. Massive respect 💖
Exactly!
Takes me back to the 80s jazz dance scene in London...... such a definitive track with such characteristic Pharaoh...... ❤️.
Man I didn't even know that was a thing! Took me down a bit of a rabbit hole. Seems both corny and a lot of fun, and weirdly authentic! I thought they had ditched the authenticity in the early 70s. Glad to see jazz lives everywhere
SO happy I got to see Pharoah at the Village Vanguard from about 15 feet away many years ago. It was a late show on a weeknight so there weren't that many people even there. At one point he told us he was going to welcome a friend of his to the stage to play with him: Freddie Hubbard, who'd been sitting by himself about ten feet to my right! It was dark in the club. I never noticed him! They were, needless to say, wonderful.
Probably the most Soulful Jazz track of all time. Never aff my deck
In God We Trust...Thank You!
Anybody here from the indie game "ape out"? No...? This game introduced me to this awesome genre :D
yeees
I'm actually here from Jacob Geller's video essay on ape out. He expresses exactly how wonderful You Gotta Have Freedom is when it plays in the game.
OceanicLetsPlay nah... my dad used to play this when I was a kid and I knew it was time to clean the house 🤣🤣🤣
Amazing how the first comment i see is the exact reason Im here
Ruby Reduxx yup best get your ass in gear music....especially blasted over good speakers...I can not remain still!
I was watching a video and the sax player made a pharoah sanders noise and here I am and he's died. What a legend.
Dear God, although we're not worthy, we are abundantly grateful!!!
🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Well said
Amen!
Thank you Pharoah Sanders and company for this most delightful music ❤️
Thank you to my dear late brother Samuel for introducing me to this awesome music. Still my favourite. Music at its Finest ❤️❤️❤️
Happy EarthDay Pharoah Sanders
May mr sanders rest in power🙏🏿
Thank you so much Pharoah
.... when I first heard this in 1993 .... when I first to could fully comprehend the depth of it all..... I knew at that very moment that my soul had evolved.
Righto Joe perfectly said....same for me! I guess I heard this about a year earlier but yes...life changing in a way
Wow wow yes
The "Brooklyn funk essentials" do a very good rendition of "The creator has a master plan" ... I get all of the young ones to listen.... Soul inspiring...
All these Kats are cooking on this one!
Breaks my heart, opens my soul, gotta have peace and love.
The best by a long chalk , pharoah reaffirms my belief in a being greater than humanity. By far the most amazing piece of dance music created. If you can't feel this you are dead. Love to the world peace
Man just the first 25 seconds affirms the value of life, Hicks has such fluidity, the voices and instrumentation are very complimentary, the flugalhorn is outstanding. Man, this stopped me in my tracks.
😂😂😂
No one knows, i just appreciate it. I dont worry about whether god exists or not.
still one track that keeps me happy :) love the John Hicks opening too
The last bars of the tune are just divine, pharoah is rising to the top...
I always thought the end of the song was like they were ascending.
The John Hicks intro sets the tone!
love
got this on album and cd!Journey to the ONE!
They all went all in on this one. 5:52 on seals the deal with this whole track
RIP you beautiful soul. Thank you for the moving performance at we out here
Probably duplicating myself, bút what a phenomenal set of musicians! Truly reaches the soul! John Hicks is so energetic and lyrical, what a loss for humanity :-) At least recordings of his work are available to remember his contributions.. has a wonderful discordance that brings intrigue, the trumpet and flugelhorn solos are exceptional!
Rest in peace, sir.
Ever so grateful 2 hv watched the Great Pharoah Sanders live at a small and intimate venue called Dingwalls in London UK. That night I got spiritualized by his music
Parabara - Peace and Love! ...
RIP Pharaoh Saunders, what a musician 💎
Rest in Peace, dear Genius!!!
I feel so lucky to have seen Pharoah live. Such a brilliant musician and soul, who captures the spirit of resistance and points to a better world.
One of the greatest tracks of all time. Thanks for the post.
Absolutely
Just as the first note of this exquisite tune will continue to travel through space, backward in time, so too will our memorialization of it (on this thread). It will also mark our brief time here, sharing our appreciation of this gift, long after we have moved on. Much peace and love to you all, as we journey to the One.
Your comment is every bit as profound as the music that elicited it. I wrote on 24th December 2033. Merry Christmas to you my friend. ❤️
First heard this on the radio going to work & wondered how could I have missed hearing this inall my years of listening. Pharoah wails.. love that opening tenor cry. Hick's as always plays beautifully. great track.
Just simply divine.
I remember when my dad brought this album home. He played this a few times and Think about the One. By then, I was really into jazz. My dad called this hard jazz. I think I was 11 or 12 at the time. Great times with AM radio WBEE in Harvey,Illinois. Wally Muhammad and Marty Faye. Smooth Jazz is great but this stuff here, fiyah...
Just found out Mr Sanders passed. He has his freedom now and his peace. Rest in Peace King. I'll never be the same.
WBEE was the jam brother. Loved what they was puttin' down.
@@michaelEvans-zo4lt yeah and I said Wally. It was Idris the drummer who hosted sometimes. I was sad when it went off air.
Very sad. Even though Larry Smith continued playing at WBEZ the local NPR station until they decided to downgrade & eventually dump "jazz" . Mark Ruffin still swings on one of those satellite jazz stations & occasionally produces music. And it was Wally Muhammad who hosted a Saturday Jazz program.
@@michaelEvans-zo4lt I was pretty young. I wasn't positive on the 1st name. Thanks.
Thanks Pharoah Sanders! And chums! And Gilles Peterson! 🎷🧡
Feels like celebrating life ☀️❤️
Acid Jazz classic.
If you never got to see Coltrane, run to see Pharaoh. As close to Coltrane as you will get. Just close your eyes and John will be right there.
Saw both masters. Coltrane and Pharoah. I was blessed.
Perfection personified!
my all time favorite Jazz Track. :)
Fantastique!
Idris Muhammad New Orleans Finest🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
The Magnificent. The Humble. RIP
RIP my man xx
R.I.P Pharaoh Sanders. You left behind timeless music.
Such a classic piece of all out happiness and celebration of life. This and Astral Travelling are Pharoah Sanders finest for me. In fact, the Thembi album is a masterpiece
I Agree 💯👏
Y E S
Priviledged to have seen Sanders' last concert at We out here festival 🙏
2024 and still feeling it deep in my soul!!!!
John Hicks swinging like nobody's business!
..... well put, and yes he was indeed.
My thoughts exactly
Peace and love.
This is the Main Man of Jazz!!! He is the Soul of Life!
RIP Legend.
Pharoah Sanders held in very high esteem in the Jazz world as one of the finest ever, especially with his brand of spiritually etherall Jazz, always value for money, certainly one of the greatest saxophonists to have blown on the instrument, with tracks like the Gathering & Jitu to his bow, a living legend
Thanks Pharoah. I met in Chicago...missed
TUUUUUUNE !!
Masterpiece!!!
+Housemusicsouldierz I think so too！
We all need some freedom. R.I.P Pharoah Sanders
RIP! amazing music lasts forever