Pharoah Sanders -- "The Creator Has a Master Plan"
There are much, much worse things you could do with 32:47 of your time.
What else can one say about this track? For starters, there are very few artists who can make a recording featuring a flute that is worth listening to. I could say also that the low, buzzing moodiness of the sax sounds right with the extra percussion that you never would have heard in, say, John Coltrane, that this kind of thing makes sense as what I would consider to be jazz's last stand, which was also a nod to its prehistoric (that is, pre-recoding technology) origins. After Afro-jazz, there really wasn't anything else left for the genre to do because Western music had moved on.
So, Pharoah Sanders met the Afro-Beat artists of the same era half-way: they looked from Africa to the West for inspiration, Sanders from the West to Africa. "The creator has a master plan," Sanders tries to convince us, and, religious convictions aside, we find ourselvves rather inclined to believe him.
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