(via (2) Marshall Allen feat. Neneh Cherry - New Dawn (Official Music Video) - YouTube)
It’s been an exciting week since the release of Marshall Allen’s New Dawn. He broke two Guinness World Records, becoming both the oldest person to release a debut album (at 100 years and 265 days) and the oldest person to release an album of new material.
In Every Language, given ‘music’ to search international WikiPedia, gives all sorts or things from culture to culture, but given ‘Jazz’? You tell me if there isn’t a distinct global international transnational statement given by these results!
“I listen to things that maybe some guys don’t,” Sanders told the New Yorker in a 2020 feature. “I listen to the waves of the water. Train coming down. Or I listen to an airplane taking off.”
A collection of interviews with the late great "Astral Traveler," Pharoah Sanders.
This weekend the world lost a giant. Pharoah Sanders,
I had a late morning radio show on CJUM-FM in 1978, two hours up to the noon news for jazz. One morning I played side one of Pharoah Sanders' Love in Us All. About five minutes in, my studio phone rang...
"This music," a male caller began, "I can't work with this music on."
Ok, I said, then you have two choices, you can take a break from work and just listen, or you can change to another station and come back in 20 minutes. He seemed a little miffed by my answer and hung up.
The side ended, I spun the next disc, and the phone rang again. Same guy. "I took your advice and listened," he said, quite excited, "That was INCREDIBLE! Where can I buy this album?"
Sadly, I had to tell him it was already out of print.