Izipho Zam (My Gifts) (RSD 2025)

Izipho Zam (My Gifts) (RSD 2025)Pharoah Sanders' Izipho Zam (My Gifts) is a bold, boundary pushing jazz masterpiece, recorded in 1969 at Town Sound Studios, two years after his mentor John Coltrane's death, but not released until 1973 by Stanley Cowell and Charles Tollivers Strata East label. For the first time ever, this piece of jazz history has been transferred from the original analog tapes at 96k 192k 24bit resolution, with lacquers cut by Kevin Gray at Coherent Audio, whose

A cat might have nine lives

this 2 LP set is pressed on “Red

satisfying album that's the band's best in years

Hype sticker included on plastic outer sleeve

no driving organ

Eight of the band's nine albums thus far (plus a small galaxy of comics and novels) dwell in this world - and so does 'The Father of Make Believe'

who was also behind their previous albums

club-friendly celebrations

and that’s how free and open he is

embodying a succinct and resonant vintage sound

and Josette Maskin

that shouldn't be a problem