Pharoah Sanders ‎– Tauhid

This is the saddest reissue I own and I think about this everytime I look at it's cheap sleeve and the corners cut on the labels and inner sleeve. Imagine the other two Pharoah reissues from the same time follow suite.

This pressing sounds horrible. The surface noise is unbelievable. Maybe I was just unlucky, but I can't imagine one sounding good if this one sounds so bad. Save your money.

Good sounding reissue. I just A/B’d one against a nm 1968 copy and the difference was negligible in terms of sound. Too bad that they didn’t try harder with the cover and label. But if you care mostly about the music, this version is worth it for the price.

I have heard this all the way through. Quiet pressing with almost no surface noise. Totally agree about the packaging - would have been happy to pay more to get a repro of the original gatefold. Not the best reissue but certainly could have been much worse. I'm just glad to have this music available.

Can someone post label scans please? Thank you.

This album has been enormously influential and important over the years to not only jazz-lovers as a whole but also to many musicians/arrangers/producers from across many genres. It is also an excellent example of the results of complete artistic freedom. Such was the context given to the artists that Impulse producer Bob Theile afforded them, when they came to do their thing in the studio for this ABC/Paramount label in the 60's.

This album has a feel of confidence and charge which allows it an accessibility and artistic integrity that shines through immediately upon each listening some 44 years after its original release. Sublime arrangements and playing abound it in it. From the swooping and ritualistic blowing of Sanders horn to the grooves in the double bass to the beautifully placed guitar of Sonny Sharrock and multifarious percussion this is just one mighty recording.

It is clear to understand how it pushed and enlivened the creativity and exploration by the Detroit scene of the late 60's a la MC5 and Stooges, let alone the countless other artists and players who have heard it since. One special note to be made is that of the piano used to brilliant counterpoint usage with its delicate opening to the the calm from the storm of 'Upper Egypt & Lower Egypt'. The chordal placements of the piano are used with much grace and restraint and amply demonstrated in the dynamics and voicings used throughout. 'Tauhid' is a true classic with a beauty, import and urgency that shines as clearly now as it did in 1967.