PHAROAH SANDERS- KARMA


Pharoah Sanders
Karma
(1969)
Impulse! Records/ABC Records

Dateline: April 25, 2020

I was introduced to Pharoah through John Coltrane. He was featured on the Om album playing Tenor Sax. The first time I heard his saxophone, I asked, WTF is this?? It sounds like his sax is the equivalent to the Maggot Brain cover. It was in agony and begging for help.  Or it sounded like that he was pissed off and ready to start a riot. If you haven’t tried it, I challenge you to play Om in the dark. You will be freaked out easily and it took me a little while to recover the first time I've done it. At the time, I didn’t get Pharoah. I didn’t get Om either. I just thought it was all disjointed noise, not going nowhere. Like the saying goes, you’re ignorant to what you don’t get. It took a long while and a quest for inner spirituality to finally get Pharoah and Om. Pharoah taught me that it’s not all about noise. Well, the Bomb Squad taught me that too. It’s about a quest to reach a higher level of consciousness. Jazz to me isn’t all about tradition and melodies. It’s about talking without speaking. Touching your spirit with the same intensity as going to a place of worship. It’s about a force that’s beyond what we can comprehend. A mystery that glides between notes. It’s about elevating and motivating a movement. Going to a place that we never knew existed.  We all will face our moment of truth someday. Karma is around the corner when we go to court on Judgement Day.  When I get there,  I'll be front and center.  Prepared to make my case in front of the jury.  Pharoah and Coltrane prepped me before I left.  Now, I'll have full confidence knowing that I got this. Now I got what you were trying to say.  Thank you Pharoah, for giving me another chance to come back to you.  I finally got you now.


Artist: Pharoah Sanders
Title: The Creator Has a Master Plan
Album: Karma
Label: Impulse! Records/ABC Records







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