Crescent with Love

Crescent with Love

ASIN: B0000014LE

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Sanders will be forever known as the tenor saxophonist who stood beside John Coltrane during the last years of the ultimate tenor saxophonist's life, and on this 2 CD set, five of the 12 compositions are by Coltrane. The focus is not on Coltrane the volcanic avant-gardist, however, but on Coltrane the underrated melodicist and romantic. Sanders leads a mainstream piano quartet through restrained, even lyric, arrangements of Coltrane's blues and ballads, and makes them sound as tuneful and tender as the album's standards, "Misty," "In a Sentimental Mood," and "Body and Soul." What also emerges is Sanders's distinctive voice on the sax--as full of throaty, vibrant overtones when he's crooning as when he's roaring. --Geoffrey Himes

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Crescent with Love
Pharoah Sanders
Manufacturer: Venus
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000JAEZ
Release Date: 1999-11-08

Tracks:

Lonnie's Lament
Misty
In a Sentimental Mood
Softly for Shyla
Wise One
Too Young to Go Steady

Tracks:

Body and Soul
Naima
Feelin' Good
Light at the Edge of the World
Crescent
After the Rain

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Japanese Version Featuring 24Bit Hyper Magnum Sound Mastering Technology.

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A Criminally overlooked Pharoah Sanders Album, that you simply must Purchase....
Stunning tribute
Pharoah Sanders, consummate master of the tenor sax
A tender and respectful tribute
Channeling Trane

Crescent with Love
Pharoah Sanders
Manufacturer: Evidence
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000014LE
Release Date: 1994-10-31

Tracks:

Lonnie's Lament
Misty
In A Sentimental Mood
Softly For Shyla
Wise One
Too Young To Go Steady

Tracks:

Body And Soul
Naima
Feelin' Good
Light At The Edge
Crescent
After The Rain

Amazon.com

Sanders will be forever known as the tenor saxophonist who stood beside John Coltrane during the last years of the ultimate tenor saxophonist's life, and on this 2 CD set, five of the 12 compositions are by Coltrane. The focus is not on Coltrane the volcanic avant-gardist, however, but on Coltrane the underrated melodicist and romantic. Sanders leads a mainstream piano quartet through restrained, even lyric, arrangements of Coltrane's blues and ballads, and makes them sound as tuneful and tender as the album's standards, "Misty," "In a Sentimental Mood," and "Body and Soul." What also emerges is Sanders's distinctive voice on the sax--as full of throaty, vibrant overtones when he's crooning as when he's roaring. --Geoffrey Himes

Customer Reviews:

A Criminally overlooked Pharoah Sanders Album, that you simply must Purchase...........2006-10-27

Pharoah Sanders has released a fair few albums in his time, and for those that are only recently starting to get into his work, it can be a little daunting knowing where to start. Most people will steer you towards albums such as: "Karma" / "Rejoice" / "Africa" / "Welcome to Love" / "Thembi", etc.....fantastic choices all of them, but his 1992 "Crescent with Love" album, is sometimes criminally overlooked. Maybe because it's generally, a far more contemplative and subdued album than he is normally associated with. The mood here, is less of the Coltrane-esque, Saxophone wailing and screeches , and in comes a set that is by turns, organic, intimate, elegant and soothing. With Pharoah proving himself to be a master of mood and atmosphere, intertwined with a caressing tenor sound, that is given towards a sparer and looser sound than usual. There is a tangible melancholic mood to this sublime 2 disk album, with Pharoah displaying a restrained confidence and warmth, that for those listeners that are only familiar with Pharoah's work, via albums like "Karma" & "Africa" with be pleasantly surprised with this sorely underrated masterpiece.

Tracks such as "Lonnies Lament", "Softly for Shyla" & "After the Rain" emphasise this mood, with strong piano accompaniments, sitting comfortably Pharoahs muted Sax performance. It's all such a beautifully rendered set, that unless you see the cd case with your own eyes, you'd be doubtful as to whether this is actually the work of Coltrane's student. It's an album that is unhurried and tempo, and reflective in mood, and considering the majority of Pharoahs work, ultimately a more introspective and insular album. Pharoah beautifully textures alongside the gentle piano compositions, and nocturnal bass and drums with his staggeringly expressive Saxaphone. It actually has far more in common with Ike Quebec's astonishing "Blue and Sentimental" album, in that it swaps exuberance for something altogether more inward looking. There are a couple of tracks that do break out of the laid-back mood, with both "Wise one" and "Crescent" both being slightly more energised, and this will please those that love his earlier work. But for the rest of us, this is a understated album, that needs to be listed amongst Pharoah finest albums, and one of his most remarkable directions in performance.

Stunning tribute.......2004-06-02

Forget anything you've heard or read about Pharoah Sanders and allow yourself to be introduced to one of the masters of the tenor sax on this beautiful CD. Sanders salutes John Coltrane but never imitates. He squeezes every ounce of emotion and feeling out of every note he plays and breathes new life into tunes that are standards and so familiar.
The 2nd of the 2 CDs included here is my personal favorite with A haunting rendition of Body and Soul and a wonderful original interpretation of Naima one of my favorite Coltrane compositions.

The trio backing Sanders on this collection is wonderful.

Pharoah Sanders has always been a musician who sought new approaches and on this set he combines that thoughtfulness and expression with beautiful tunes and a more traditional reading of some ballads that will take your breath away at times.

Pharoah Sanders, consummate master of the tenor sax.......2003-06-25

First off, we are very lucky to have Pharoah Sanders, late in his career, in such a setting--the classic sax-piano-bass-drums format. Lately, he seems to prefer a more world-jazz approach, often amid the--uneven, it must be admitted--soundscapes of Bill Laswell. Don't get me wrong. I have no complaints about his late career choices. I find his gravitation toward world-jazz perfectly appropriate and often spectacular in its results.

Personally, I don't think the right approach to the music contained on Crescent with Love is to consider it a Coltrane tribute. Rather, it represents for me some kind of ur-Sanders presentation of the glories of the tenor sax. I admit that for a long time I thought of it in terms of a Coltrane tribute. And it didn't work for me. I really couldn't listen to it. I had expectations for the music that just weren't there. It was only when I begin to see it as a kind of ultimate exercise by Sanders into the fabulous capability of the tenor sax to produce simply ravishing sounds that I began to see its genius.

Make no mistake. Pharoah Sanders is the greatest player of the tenor sax ever. No one will ever surpass his ability to get the most out of his instrument from a shear brilliance of tone perspective. He is the absolute master. So in a sense, his career has always been about finding the right context to properly expose his tonal mastery. But isn't this a somewhat shallow and reductionistic way to consider this man's music? No, I don't think so.

Because Sanders is all about allowing emotional depth to be a natural result of his technical mastery, not about conjuring up feeling for its own sake. Thus, when I listen to his absolutely absorbing rendering of that incredibly overrecorded standard, Ellington's "In a Sentimental Mood," I find myself first drawn in by his ravishing tone, then enfolded in the tune's inherent poignancy, in a way that I've never been with another player. In other words, feeling becomes an outworking of a technique so profound, so overwhelming, that one's only response is yield to the inherent emotional depth of the tune.

The genius of this approach is perhaps most on display on Coltrane's "Wise One." Taken at a leisurely pace, sans pyrotechnics, Sanders (and the quartet) allows the inherent beauty of the tune to naturally unfold, as it were. This is so far removed from the deconstructionist tendencies (of which I, generally, am a fan) that rule modern jazz as to render Sanders almost an archaic figure. And that's how he comes across, if we simply regard this disc as a "tribute." It's only when we take him on his own terms that his genius come fully to the fore.

A note about his bandmates. These players, long time Sanders associates--William Henderson on piano, Charles Fambrough on bass, and Sherman Fergson on drums--are by no means considered to be absolutely top-shelf players (save perhaps Fambrough, and he has struggled to find fulfilling contexts for his monster chops). Yet they consistently provide the ideal playing enviornment for Sanders--and not in the mail-in-your-chops way that Sonny Rollins' bandmates for the last ten years seem to have done. Henderson, especially, seems perfectly attuned to the Sanders esthetic. He's always spot on with his glorious singing tone, understated yet provocative solos, and expansive comping.

I have to admit I've neglected this disc somewhat, but it's because I couldn't get proper access to it. Like me, if you jettison the Coltrane tribute approach, I think you'll find it much more naturally reveals its inherent genius.

A tender and respectful tribute.......2002-08-15

Okay, so he's not the firebreather he was during the 60's, but certainly no one can bring more to the table than Pharoah Sanders when it comes to doing a Coltrane tribute album. Even if the album contains chestnuts like "Misty", the ripeness and authority of Sanders' playing transcends criticism, and with the three other players succesfully invokes the sound of the (Garrison,Tyner, Jones) classic quartet without being imitative. Much recommended, a tender and respectful tribute to a man and an era.

Channeling Trane.......2002-06-14

Ever wander how Trane would have sounded had he not died so young? This album may hold the answer. Pharoah Sanders may be the most spiritually deep saxophonist alive today. Throughout most of the 90's Sanders has been delving more deeply into the sound world of his mentor Coltrane. Unlike younger musicians, Trane's influence has deepened Sanders creativity, not frozen it. Close your eyes and you'd think Trane was in the room, but a Trane deepened by the passage of time.

Not that Pharoah is a mere imitator. This is deeply personal music, played with deep love. But the Sanders trademark multiphonics are still present, controlled yet still with a rough edge. There are moments on this CD that can make you weep. Sander's playing on The Light at the Edge of the World is breathtaking. And Too Young to Go Steady is heartbreakingly nostalgic. This is great rainy Sunday afternoon music. It is beautiful and moody and the best tribute album I've ever heard.

Tracks:

Russian Folk Songs And Romances: Russian Folk Song 'The Crescent Shines'
Russian Folk Songs And Romances: Waltz On The Theme Of Russian Folk Song: 'Along The Road To Murom'
Russian Folk Songs And Romances: 'Why Do You Fasten Your Eyes To The Road'
Russian Folk Songs And Romances: 'Dark-Browed, Dark-Eyed'
Russian Folk Songs And Romances: 'It Is Raining In The Street'
Russian Folk Songs And Romances: Piece On The Theme Of Comic Russian Folk Song: 'Cousin, Go To See Me'
Russian Folk Songs And Romances: 'Green Grove'
Russian Folk Songs And Romances: 'Katherine'
Russian Folk Songs And Romances: 'Eh You, Van 'ka'
Russian Folk Songs And Romances: 'You, My Beautiful And Rubicund'
Russian Folk Songs And Romances: 'The Danube Waves'
Russian Folk Songs And Romances: 'Girl's Melandcholy'
Russian Folk Songs And Romances: Old Russian Romance: 'Quiet, So Quiet'

Tracks:

Russian Folk Songs And Romance: Russian Folk Song 'The Evening Chime'
Russian Folk Songs And Romance: 'This Passionate Love's Not For You'
Russian Folk Songs And Romance: 'Foggy Morning'
Russian Folk Songs And Romance: 'I Remember Waltz's Charming Sound'
Russian Folk Songs And Romance: 'Why Is The Heart Beating So Loud'
Russian Folk Songs And Romance: 'All Is Quiet'
Russian Folk Songs And Romance: Old Russian Romance 'A Dark Cherry Shawl'
Russian Folk Songs And Romance: 'The Night Is Bright'
Russian Folk Songs And Romance: 'The Fleeting Dreams Has Passed'
Russian Folk Songs And Romance: 'I Won't Tell You'
Russian Folk Songs And Romance: 'An Old Husband'

Customer Reviews:

RUSSIAN VOCAL SCHOOL -- SHINES!.......2000-04-29

I first saw Elena in a video that was made during the late '70s, while the iron curtain was still down. She sang a SCALDING "O Don Fatale", making every other's version seem mediocre. That vision has never left me, and is continued here in an original recording from the Soviet Union.The songs are folk, with many "folk" orchestra songs as well. Together, Elena and the period orchestra combine forces to produce wonderful, exciting, dramatic and certainly magical sounds! "Dark-Browed, Dark-Eyed" is one of my personal favorites here. The tempo, along with Elena's tremendous vocals, add up to a spectacular feeling of energy. ALL of the songs show off her incredible chest register, and many can bring you close to tears. The sound is in real stereo, with better remastering that I had thought. There are SO few recordings of just ELENA, so this is a treasure to own. She must certainly be pleased as well.

Beautiful, and surprisingly decent recording quality.......2000-01-30

My favorite songs on this album are the folk songs, although all the songs are beautiful and wonderfully performed. They could do with a little less orchestral numbers, but they are also very nice. Elena Obraztsova is an exceptional singer.

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Crescent with Love
Pharoah Sanders
Manufacturer: Venus
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Jazz | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00003WGB5

Tracks:

Lonnie's Lament
Misty
In a Sentimental Mood
Softly for Shyla
Wise One
Too Young to Go Steady

Tracks:

Body and Soul
Naima
Feelin' Good
Light at the Edge of the World
Crescent
After the Rain

Album Details

Japanese Version featuring a Limited Edition LP Style Slipcase for Initial Pressing. Digitally Remastered with Hyper Magnum Sound Encoding.

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