Black Unity [Original recording remastered]

1. Black Unity

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Average customer rating: Continued evolution. A guy you should buy. The best record Stanley Clarke ever played on by far & wide Where it all comes together for Pharoah Tribal rudimentary funk!

Black Unity Pharoah Sanders Manufacturer: Grp Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music GRP | Verve Music Group | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun) Karma Thembi Tauhid Jewels of Thought ASIN: B000003N9G Release Date: 1997-04-08

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1. Black Unity

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Continued evolution........2005-10-13

By late 1971, Pharoah Sanders was on a search for new sounds-- his flavor of spiritually infused free jazz had been widely explored over several albums in the previous couple years. Sanders began soaking his music in world rhythms-- eschewing the previous layer of free jazzish percussion in exchange for a more traditionally rooted percussion sound-- with drummers Norman Connors and Billy Hart along with percussionist Lawrence Killian, Sanders was able to develop an almost Afro-Latin vibe. This was further accentuated with the presence of two bassists-- a very young Stanley Clarke (on upright) and journeyman Cecil McBee. Clarke (and Connors) brought with him a deep sense of groove and a working knowledge of r&b and funk musics that helped push Sanders into a groove-oriented direction. The final piece, I suspect, in the evolution of his music was the departure of pianist Lonnie Liston Smith and his prelacement with Joe Bonner-- Smith's voice was far more distinctive, almost as much as Sanders, whereas Bonner provided a different pallete for the horns (in this case, Sanders and Carolos Garnett on tenor and Hannibal Marvin Peterson on trumpet) to work.

So the piece itself-- a 37 minute track-- opens with a dueling bass cadence over percussion before a funky piano riff and balphone drone takes over, setting the stage for something different. The theme is picked up by tenor (Garnett I suspect) and trumpet-- like many of Sanders' themes, there's an undercurrent of a Monk root to the riff. Eventually a brief collective improv gives way to individual solos supported by a neverending array of inventive percussion. The results are something.

As intriguing as it is though, "Black Unity" is lacking in some unknown quantity for me-- it's a great album, but something stops me from thinking of it in the same light I think of Sanders' best.

A guy you should buy........2004-12-13

The thought of Pharoah Sanders being a pharoah? Never accured to many. But he's a pharoah here. A king that can swing. The man with a plan.

The best record Stanley Clarke ever played on by far & wide.......2002-12-11

This one track has one of the greatest rhythms I've ever heard, just a relentless incredible groove between all the drums percussion and McBee & Clarke's dual bass playing. Pharoah sits out for times, I am sure just listening in awe and wonder to the storm these men produced. I know I often do...

Where it all comes together for Pharoah.......2001-11-08

Of all of Pharoah's albums, this ranks among my favorites. The album consists of a single 37+ minute track of African-inspired percussive grooves and ace free-form jamming by Pharoah and his sidemen. Like much of his late 1960s-early 1970s work, the piece alternates between anarchistic cacaphony and sheer mellow bliss but seems to work as an organic whole a bit more effectively than his other excellent albums of the time. Note the bass-line from "The Creator Has a Master Plan" reprised toward the end of the piece -- nice touch. Definitely well-worth picking up and grooving to for fans of adventurous spiritual jazz, avant-garde jazz, acid jazz, and world music fans who want to explore fusions of world and jazz idioms. World fusion with teeth? Yeah. Dig it.

If you like this, make sure to check out the rest of Pharoah's label mates on Impulse! A shame that the conglomerate that owns the Impulse! label is no longer interested in reissuing the Impulse! back catalog on cd, and is threating to delete those Impulse! gems that are currently in print.

Tribal rudimentary funk!.......2001-10-03

Not exactly what you'd expect out of a Sanders album esp. on the avant driven Impulse label. But this album is one continuous 38-minute drive of improvised free-funk jam. What took me up within 2 minutes of this brilliant composition was Stanley Clarke's bass lines (am not sure whether Cecil McBee is grooving simultaneously) and Joe Bonner's piano. I didn't even know Stanley Clarke was part of the free-jazz scene and this is his best playing I've ever heard. Of course, as with a Sanders' late 60s/early 70s staple, there was a huge dose of free music, but in between all that melodic cacophony is a sense of structure (unlike some of this other avant-garde stuff esp. with Coltrane).
Like Clarke who went on later to soul-funk-R-n-B territories, drummer Norman Connors too (a surprise again) started the free-jazz route (as finely displyed here) to eventually dwindle in
R-n-B. Get this one. It's a classic in the league of "A Love Supreme".

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Tradition: Legacy of the March Volume III Manufacturer: Mark Masters ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Marches | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Marches | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Tradition: Legacy of the March Vol. 4 Legacy of the March, Vol. 5 The Music of Kenneth Alford ASIN: B00028ATW4 Release Date: 2002-12-01

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1. B.B. & C.F - James Ord Hume
2. Garland Entree - Karl L. King
3. The Boys of the Old Brigade - Paris Chambers
4. Eagle Squadron - Kenneth J. Alford
5. Quality Plus - Ffred Jewell
6. Black Jack - Fred Huffer
7. The Klaxon - Henry Fillmore
8. Wit Sword and Lance - Hermann Starke
9. Bombasto - Orion R. Farrar
10. Zacatecas - Genaro Codina
11. Glory of the Trumpets - James O. Brockenshire
12. Glorious America - Karl L. King
13. Lights Out - Earl E. McCoy
14. Emblem of Freedom: -Karl L. King
15. Flying Eagle - Hermann L. Blankenburg
16. Emblem of Unity - Joseph John Richards
17. Olympia Hippodrome - Russell Alexander
18. Voice of the Guns - Kenneth J. Alford
19. Rolling Thunder - Henry Fillmore

Album Description

Check out these unique, well written and marvelously performed marches by the Texas A&M University Bands under the baton of one of America's most informed march experts, Dr. Timothy Rhea. The entire set of CDs, currently four volumes, features favorite "West Texas" Marches. It is a treat to hear these uncommon marches. You can't help but wonder, "How come we don't hear more of these wonderful marches???"

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Black Unity Pharoah Sanders Manufacturer: Impulse! ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000QUCXG8 Release Date: 2007-08-06

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1. Black Unity

Album Description

Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2007.

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

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Three Hands On'Semble Manufacturer: Hands On'semble ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Ellington | Ellington, Edward Duke | ( E ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B0007TKG8A Release Date: 2005-03-29

Tracks:

1. From One
2. Blue, Green, Red, And Black
3. Anyways
4. Come Sunday/African Flower
5. National Geographic Oro
6. Loam And Lumber
7. Circle Of Unity

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Unity Through Aggression White Wash Manufacturer: Panzerfaust Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Death Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000S6A3VM

Product Description

1999 release from White Wash. 12 songs. Song list: Stormtrooper, F.J. & D.B., WhiteWash, Unity Through Aggression, Self Defense, Racial Skins, A.R.A., Rumor Mill, Everywhere, Apeman, Whats It Gonna Take?, Last Call

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Unity Black Umfolosi Manufacturer: World Circuit ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Africa | International | Styles | Music Zimbabwe | Africa | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000241CL Release Date: 1994-09-13

Tracks:

1. Umangivuka
2. Unity
3. Sizohlabelela
4. Sanqamula Mazwe
5. The Hour
6. Ngenani Endelini
7. Hlalanathi
8. Ukuthandana
9. Children Of The Frontline States
10. Baby Noora
11. Umalani
12. 10Th Anniversary
13. Take Me Home
14. Masiyeni
15. Ngiyamaz'Upaba
16. Ngiyamvuma
17. Vukawendoda
18. I Remember
19. Asigwabi Lamadimoni
20. Ubankwa Wezigodo

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What?.......2000-01-30

How do I? rate this cd ? I have never heard it! Because you can't buy anywhere That's why greetings piet

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Unity Black Umfolosi Manufacturer: Umvd/Ryko ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000CJ7B Release Date: 1994-08-16

Tracks:

1. Umangivuka
2. Unity
3. Sizohlabelela
4. Sanqamula Mazwe
5. The Hour
6. Ngenani Endelini
7. Hlalanathi
8. Ukuthandana
9. Children Of The Frontline States
10. Baby Noora
11. Umalani
12. 10Th Anniversary
13. Take Me Home
14. Masiyeni
15. Ngiyamaz'Upaba
16. Ngiyamvuma
17. Vukawendoda
18. I Remember
19. Asigwabi Lamadimoni
20. Ubankwa Wezigodo

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