Pharoah Sanders - Olé

[@MR-dr5nc]

RIP, it’s the right time to return to this emotional masterpiece

[@jak3186]

The "Elevation" CD is literally in my player in the car right now... I walk in the house, and check my news feed on the phone, and see the great bird has flown...no words, just such a strange feeling...

[@NtozakeAcoli]

I listen to this every morning after morning meditation.. I leave the house feeling like a CHAMP!!

[@villeharju2207]

Even though I don't know you, I know if we ever met we would be best friends. Currently blasting this with my morning coffee after meditating. Champ mode!

[@hankworden3850]

The Champ of what? Turds?

[@m.alemseghed2114]

This is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful things ever created by a human being.

[@damstardunc7060]

Often listen to this while cycling to work in the morning in Amsterdam. Champ mode indeed 🔥

[@bronxbassist]

That’s cause you are. This music is the truth!

[@ujjayyilifeflower8684]

First of all, I saw Pharoah do this live and it was so primal, shamanic, and artistic. At the same time that it was beautiful and frightening in equal measure, it was a dramatic performance, like an exorcism or holy ghost revival .My eyes, my ears, my emotions, my soul, and even my hormones were raptured into the bullfight...because that is what is happening,....the total mind, body, and feelings were engaged from the first note until the bull dies at the end, a heroic figure who samson like, kills the matador, the audience, and brings down the whole damn thing in refusing to yield. He shakes, he screams a challenge to heaven itself, and fights not just the matador..other instruments...but the cosmic order itself. And though he must finally end, he was not defeated and will never be defeated for he purrs, moans, growls, and noises even to the end. Idris Muhammad's drums capture the martial nature of the struggle, Walter Booker on base never relents from the theme..this is life and death..., and William Henderson engages the horn-bull in unending but will end combat. During the live performance, the band played the intro itself for 10 minutes, with Pharoah on castanets and doing pirouettes like a flamenco dancer, the proud bull, flouncing into the arena, taking his time allowing you to marvel at his magnificence, keeping you in the thrall of anticipation... You will experience this on the bull's terms too. And when the horn runs started, I was mesmerized, and then I became fearful. As the bass line pulsed, and the drums rolled the combatants into attack formation, and the beautiful piano matador showed it was equal and undaunted, Pharoah unleashed a torrent of escalating intensity, cascading entire lines into almost a single scream. I pleaded inside, stop him, he is going to kill himself and us along with him. Surely, no mortal flesh could bring forth this level of energy and live. Yet over and over, he charged, enraged, insulted almost, and engaged the inevitable, bellowing ,screaming to and at heaven, circled and charged again until not one drop of juice was left in me. Simply put, one of the greatest performances ever by the greatest ARTIST of the 20th century.

[@mhtassara]

love it. I just realized that this is what Robert Bly means when he talks about the WildMan in Iron John. I'd love to talk to you about seeing this live

[@stevenparada8619]

the kids think I'm old I like poker face

[@pomegranatewarrior9329]

Amazing man

[@musahakim3175]

❤

[@sat.chid.ananda]

I love what you wrote, what's the story you talk about called? is that a real thing? i'm very interested in reading that

[@thulanimthethwa2968]

the most intense performance I have ever heard from Sanders.... all my senses come alive especially on the screaming part.... R. I. P Legend

[@ivypenaredondo6255]

The frantic sense or urgency and raw unbridled emotion in this piece blows my mind.

[@hankworden3850]

Rest In Pharaoh

[@ALEXANDERATTACK]

This got me through covid... no doubt about it. So beautiful.

[@krystalkarma1198]

RIP Pharoah, your music will life forever.

[@skjacmat72]

This is a true masterpiece - and one of the best live performances ever recorded - in any genre of music/performance. Truly divine.

[@seanhawley5367]

Credit also to the greatest sax player John Coltrane

[@michaelwinningham8644]

When I say this I am not speaking in hyperbole: I don't think any other piece of music has moved me so profoundly on a deep, visceral emotional level. I vainly assumed I was having a unique experience, but reading through these comments I see that I am not alone. That a musical performance can speak to so many people in such a succinct way is surely a sign of the genius of the performers.

[@roberttaylor6565]

This Brother is vastly underrated!; This is music from deep space!

[@ronaldboyle4012]

Who else has ever "brought it" like Pharoah? A true Son Of Trane, he took what he shared with the master and added his own total mastery of putting sound and the human voice and emotions into both the tenor and soprano saxes.........putting him on a level achieved by few, if any. And, what a group......Monster Modal Energy I call it........I was not fortunate enough to see this group or even his other great 80's group (my favorite) with John Hicks, Walter Booker and the same Idris Muhammad on drums..........but I sure was there in the late sixties and seventies, seeing him perform all over New York with the first great group with Lonnie LIston Smith, Cecil McBee and several different drummers, along with Leon Thomas........one time, a wonderful Memorial Day concert on Staten Island, NY was plagued by clouds all day.........the group played the Creator and the sun came out as soon as Pharoah finished his intro and that famous bass line came in .......the crowd went berserk !!..... even the musicians broke out in huge smiles........what a lifelong memory!!!

[@unkysonny]

Saw him at Slugs '69-'70, amazing straight ahead blues as well as the pyrotechnics he's renowned for. Unforgettable experiences.

[@wids]

neat

[@tlawengmophosho4848]

Trane learnt this left wing stiuff from pharaoh, he was clever enough to learn from a younger musician.

[@debash1234]

Saw him with Leon Thomas mid 70s jazz workshop in Boston a few times...great!

[@taogoat27]

Peter Brotzmann is one of the few fire-breathers close to Pharoah's caliber

[@davideferrari9017]

Dropped some tears as it's the first time I hear Pharoah on this Trane's masterpiece.. No words to describe this jazz energy

[@pomegranatewarrior9329]

Same man.

[@regisboulard4875]

So did I, in the disc shop. Because of the tears, the seller asked me "are you OK ?". You bet I was !

[@roberttaylor6565]

I have listened to Sanders for over 50 years and this is the first time hearing this album. I played over and over!!! It fills my soul to over flow with emotions!!!

[@charliesullivan4304]

It's what first hooked me on his music and still my favorite. I don't know why it isn't better known and more widely available.

[@sat.chid.ananda]

10:38 this transition to him SCREAMING THE LINE is so powerful and intense I love it so much

[@EREBAHIAMRE]

Very powerful, indeed.

[@pomegranatewarrior9329]

One of the greatest jazz recordings in history. A spiritual experience.

[@Alcoholocaustia]

This... is just pure bliss. Coltrane would be honored.

[@forlotta2066]

he chose a great man to put in his sextet

[@villeharju2207]

They didn't just kill this, they killed it, buried it, got a necromancer to bring it back to life and then killed it again.

[@Brooklyn3955]

Is it me or is it amazing what Sanders does to Trane's originals - Out of this world, Equinox and Ole for example. He's able to take the spiritual and mold em and interpret them in his own style without losing an ounce of that spirituality and soul. Wonderful!

[@volieri]

+Brooklyn3955 yes! I love the energy that oozes out of this performance my new favourite song to start the day

[@gibberconfirm166]

I think Pharoah Sanders was that good, but his start was so anti-populist he's in a weird position. Names that survive like Herbie Hancock definitely pandered.

[@felipemelinkmaestri]

What he does to Equinox is beyond this world.

[@jamesy1483]

Out of this World is not a Coltrane original. The first version of Out of This World I heard was TONY BENNETT! In may have been written a long time ago by Arlen/Mercer, or Jimmy McHugh /Al Dubin. Knowing the Bennett version, the Sanders version was a real eye opener

[@damstardunc7060]

@@felipemelinkmaestriyes, makes me cry even now after listened to it many many times

[@camiller5087]

Merci pour tout

[@zapata_arte]

Adios Pharoah hermoso recuerdo dejas, saludame a Trane por esos nuevos lugares, sigue brillando.

[@kallen9178]

So deep it makes you go inside yourself and see things from a completely new perspective.

[@celiawagenfuhrer9575]

OMG it's fu*** epic !!

[@Quaristice]

This sound will ring out across the heavens for eternity.

[@volieri]

I love the part, about in the middle of the song, where he stops playing, screams and then goes back to playing right into the jam

[@youenn2180]

+LVRVRS Me also ,I've never felt such an emotion at that very moment , Did it long ago ,listening to Coltrane's Ole , here some more is added to it , I think..

[@thespookytruth7013]

Youenn what time is that at

[@youenn2180]

When he starts screaming ...

[@thespookytruth7013]

Youenn What time is that at

[@volieri]

around 10:48

[@Existentialexplosion]

How can one appreciate other genres after experiencing this? The sheer power it holds is unmatched-absolutely extraordinary!

[@roberttaylor6565]

I FIRST HEARD BROTHER SANDERS WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER. THE CREATOR HAS A MASTER PLAN, PEACE AND HAPPIN ESS FOR EVERY MAN, BLEW ME AWAY. HIS MUSIC IS HEAVY, AND SPIRITUAL IN ITS OWN WAY!!!

[@cecilemoochnek8435]

thanks for this suggestion as an after meditation or meditation itself

[@srenjacobsendamm8237]

Trane is the greatest, but Pharoah is the best

[@themonohub5455]

I used to have this album. I remember reading in the liner notes that they had to edit this track to fit it on one side of the album. Never understood why, as both Pharoah Sanders' The Creator Has a Master Plan and Black Unity covered two sides of an LP. Would love to listen to the full version. The bit when Pharoah screams the melody gives me a full on spinal rush of ecstasy. Absolutely amazing version.

[@DougPearsall]

what an awesome document to an AMAZING life! you leave us so much richer my Brother, please go in Peace, Amen

[@michaelbornett3430]

great musik in the morning - the evening and for all of us ! peace to all of you !

[@donbarile8916]

saw him in concert at Concerts by the Sea in Redondo Beach, California shortly before the album was recorded. Sat through 3 shows just to hear this 3 times. you really had to be there. pure emotion, controlled explosion. nothing like it since.

[@arkangel06]

how doesnt this have more views its fkin phenomenal

[@xylan9543]

man.. this is so amazing. i am filled with love and joy now. everything is gonna be alright :)

[@matte8677]

Pharoah brings so much energy and raw emotion in his playing. I’ve always loved the way he screams his altissimo notes.

[@ShaySupreme]

RIP !!!

[@tjhaamid1]

The soul of the African comes to the fore with such an energetic spirited sound. Done by one of the greats, Pharoah (fitting name). The pianist is unbelievable at the onset of this.

[@enaixelarenverse4858]

it sounds like one of cameroonians rythms , bikutsi ! im shaking right now haha! love it

[@Guaxinimist]

R.I.P JAZZ LEGEND

[@carlosvelozo4877]

The very definition of intensity. Thanks for the post.

[@alojzwiertara6583]

Czyste szaleństwo!

[@julianmeissner6021]

I Like u Story of Feelings tobthe Song

[@enriquedelgadoitt]

This is pure art at its finnest 🖤

[@dushk0]

A fishy thing to say (finnest).

[@LeLapinAgile]

10:02 --------> Pharaoh Apocalypse

[@joshuacanate]

Kaesse soft machine BBC sessions YES

[@mariolongo7369]

Real global music, I love ❤!

[@dariosmania8589]

Faboulous!

[@alguiensinnombre5226]

Ganas de destruir, de construir, de dejarse llevar por la pasión... Pharoah Sanders eterno y leyenda. ❤

[@edpolk1262]

This is how I sound after 6 vodka and cranberry juice! The landlord once called the police, after he thought I was strangling a flamingo; playing like this. But honestly, I really like all his "ideas" in this set.

[@bladome]

yes!!

[@jiyujizai]

サンキュー😆💕✨

[@julianmeissner6021]

Come on I like this so much

[@aakkoin]

On piano Mr. Willian Henderson

[@sergioveschi5183]

Very good Mr. W. Henderson

[@Nobody-tu5wt]

Ecstacy

[@PxlNinja]

Where can i find more jazz like this where it's just frantic and fast and just...simply aggressive. Love this type of stuff.

[@rajpurwar5237]

If you have heard the frustratingly few other versions of Ole that I have been able to find on KZbin (ie those of Noah Howard’, Coltrane fils and...er..that’s about all) PLUS Nozipho and Equinox by the same artist (PLUS the Coltrane originals by which, of course, all others are to be judged, even though they are all so different!) AND have dived deeper into the latter’s classic quartet’s entire oeuvre (Out of This World and Afro Blue Live at Birdland spring immediately to mind) then particular tracks that I would recommend, in no particular order except, perhaps, that in which I discovered them, would be as follows: Yusuf Lateefs’ “Sister Maime”, “Like It Is”and “Brother John” (no prizes for guessing which particular ‘brother’, of course!) -there is a particularly good version of the latter that he does with two other brothers, the Belmondo’s, and their orchestra! Joe Henderson’s “Earth” which leads straight to Alice Coltrane and her stuff like “Blue Nile” and “Journey in Satchi..whatever” Another funny thing I found coming entirely from left-field was a band called Xhol Caravan (sic) also purporting to do a version of “Ole” but this turns out to be more like “Welcome”, or something else entirely. This band, however, turned out to be a lesser-known early Krautrock outfit AND this was one of my very first loves (before I more or less got married to jazz!) so, in the lockdown I have (to my real wife’s disgust!) gone back to it and have since been getting off on this band’s excellent (if you like that sort of thing, which SHE definitely doesn’t!) output -check out “All Green”, for example and, if you have as addictive a personality as I do, you could soon be equally hooked. It also took me to another ancient Krautrock discovery called Agitation Free and of course right back to my all time favourite piece of live music, or performance art, that very few people have ever heard of, which is “Solar Music” - a ‘magnum opus’ by a band going by equally ‘magnum’ name of Grobschnitt. The music, like the band themselves and their name, is not pretty but has certainly seeped into my soul like no other.....period.

[@ybbok]

Wow!

[@Dostoyevskiy]

Does anyone know if there is a video of this concert?

[@FormsInSpace]

got this back in 2003 and although this is the only song on the album I like. I love his solo on this.

[@ryanholmes9420]

You can hear the melody in the dang drum solo.... the first time I heard this was on "The Fine 89" KFJC, I was delivering tofu in the Bay Area of CA, I pulled over on Highway 280 so I could hear the rest without losing signal...and to find out what it was! My life was changed. I got to hear Sanders at the Kuumbawa Jazz center, alas he did not play this. I have played this for many people and listened to it hundreds of times since!

[@DougOrleans]

I first heard this on KFJC also! First time I felt like I really "got" jazz.

[@ryanholmes6601]

@@DougOrleans exactly ! It’s so moving and the way he extrapolated the melody made sense, and was still breathtaking. It wasn’t so “out” that it only could be enjoyed by a technician. It’s so raw and perfect still.

[@oozrenn]

this is so fucking good. thanx for upload

[@vucjipastir]

👍

[@oozrenn]

@@vucjipastir tako je

[@AylenTejas1977]

El Vito is a sound from Andalusia, in Spain.

[@alexs5723]

10:45 when Pharoah bellows

[@mariavimala2201]

One of the best renditions of ole ever (other than Coltrane, of course). Very few artists attempt it due to the overtly Eastern melody and the technical finesse required.

[@SUPERLINDEMBERG]

R.I.P

[@michaelcolello2735]

#mindblown

[@pgsousa28]

❤❤❤

[@petertoth91]

awesome! but also interesting, that the chord progression and the solo is similar to chic's la fiesta does anybody know about some kind of relationship?

[@robinbanks2293]

fAntastic sound my brothers and sisters. from Rebob Agua b`ello . Aka Lil Turk.

[@Lemwell7]

Whole bunch of songs, check Radiohead’s Everything In It’s Right Place and Pyramid Song. Prominent in Flamenco. I don’t know why I’m writing this the original comment is 4 years old. If in the course of history this comment helps anyone reply and lmk.

[@ThompsonBrotherF]

@@Lemwell7 You delivered my friend

[@pgroove163]

i dig it

[@TwistedChaz]

Yes

[@christianraquin4401]

This a response to Jason McLean's comments 11 mos ago - see below. When first heard this tune ( the Coltrane version) I heard a paso doble ( played in 3/4 instead of 2/4), the type of music played at bullfights hence, while the word olé has an Arabic origin, I doubt very much that the flamenco players and the spectators at corridas or other sporting events are referring to some god. This interjection is then simply a shout of approval, triumph, or encouragement. BTW, the Coltrane disc, while not very well known, is a must for Coltrane's fans. :)

[@roberttaylor6565]

Sorry, but I just can't stop listening to the Master of the saxophone!!

[@quinnis64]

is it ok if we can get it for a while to find some tongue somewhere else

[@stevenparada8619]

the pharoah

[@stevenparada8619]

yikes.

[@NEGYESEK]

Hello Pharoah...Mr. Tárogató says hello...oó

[@patrickanderson5241]

never heard of william henderson before, he sounds like cecil taylor.

[@basieite]

patrick anders

[@shawnwomack3446]

Sounds a lot like La Fiesta by Chick Corea in regards to the background accompaniment. So much similarities between both songs.

[@Quaristice]

Another marvelous track. Stan Getz did a great version on Captain Marvel.

[@pedroms720]

is this the same 'Olé'' from J Coltrane?

[@tomtomtommyism]

doh ;)

[@wids]

that opening phrase around 11:20 destroyed me

[@clementeaccornero8900]

❤❤❤

[@jordandibell4547]

10:13 you're welcome

[@heimatlose]

ungggghhhhhh

[@jasonmclean3048]

Ole comes from the Arabic word 'Allah' meaning 'God.' When they dance and played Flamenco they are literally shouting out to God................ GIVE EM' THE FUCKING HORNS!!!!!!!!!!!

[@christianraquin4401]

When first heard this tune I heard a paso doble ( played in 3/4 instead of 2/4), the type of music played at bullfights hence, while the word olé has an Arabic origin, I doubt very much that the flamenco players and the spectators at corridas or other sporting events are referring to god. This interjection is then simply a shout of approval, triumph, or encouragement.

[@orioleden]

óle or olé or also ála how we say in spain is an expression of "enthusiasm"; so enthusiasms from the greek theos, en-theos means with god inside.

[@jordandibell4547]

11:15

[@melviningram5867]

The Spirit Within Play On

[@calvinmaropeng1887]

Is Cecil Mcbee on Bass, I know he is the only one that plays in this style

[@KAOTSOUKI]

gamaei

[@jameslujack2034]

./.........hows come they introduced everyone as Mr. ..........when they got to pharoah...they didn't...

[@pedroms720]

it's pharoah's version of J Trane isnt it?

[@pedroms720]

yes, Pedro, after listening to it 500 times I can see its clearly the same song. A greatly different version, but still carrying the same vibe and spirit

[@lacycek]

"The structure and melody of the modal jazz vamp "Olé" was borrowed from the Spanish folk song "El Vito" (later used as the tune of "El Quinto Regimiento" from the Spanish Civil War, which was made known by Pete Seeger)"

[@AylenTejas1977]

Cuando quieres saxo duro.

[@sashakingcrimson187]

sasha king crimson ₪₪₪₪

[@licas63]

What's wrong with this people?

[@jordandibell4547]

10:48

[@cloudmaan4035]

10:47