The fine trumpeter in 1963 — fronting a cor-blimey line-up of Joe Henderson, Duke Pearson and Pete La Roca — when he was with Gil Evans, years before stints with Mingus, Herbie, the Duke, Blakey.
‘Classic Vinyl Series’.

Heavy, grooving, excursive, Afro-Latin jazz to usher in the seventies, with two bassists — Cecil McBee and Stanley Clarke — and three drummers, in Norman Connors, Billy Hart, and Lawrence Killian. Fronting alongside Hannibal Marvin Peterson and Carlos Garnett, Sanders solos magnificently.
‘Verve By Request.’ Crucial Pharoah.

‘Sublime. The romping High Life, which opens, establishes the album’s mood, which is upbeat and celebratory. Sanders’ vocalized saxophones are at their most vibrant (standouts are his tenor on High Life and soprano on Selflessness); in addition to Norman Connors on drums, there are three percussionists, including Mtume and Badal Roy; James Branch adds some pretty flute; and someone is playing, it sounds like, a sitar in tamboura-style (or a tamboura in sitar-style, it is hard to tell which) on the title track and The Golden Lamp’ (Chris May, AllAboutJazz).

His wonderful 1987 hommage to John Coltrane, leading John Hicks, Curtis Lundy, and Idris Muhammad. You’ve Got To Have Freedom is here, but Naima lands the knockout roundhouse. Warmly recommended.

In its full-length glory, from the great man’s 1980 LP Journey To The One; plus his version of the Marvin Gaye classic, from his 1978 LP Love Will Find A Way, with Norman Connors.
Both recordings luxuriating on 12” for the first time.

The first release of this ORTF recording before an audience at studio 104, Maison de la Radio, Paris.
A crack quartet, with Danny Mixon on keys (who played in this period with Grant Green and Mingus), Greg Bandy on drums (Yusef Lateef, Joe Henderson) and bassist Calvin Hill (who features on McCoy Tyner’s Sahara). All three were graduates of Betty Carter’s notoriously well-picked, exacting set-up.
Wonderful, core Sanders repertoire, too: Love Is Here and The Creator Has A Masterplan… Trane’s I Want To Talk About You… and a firing version of Love Is Everywhere, which raises the roof.
Properly licensed; sleeved in a classic tip-on gatefold, with notes and pictures; mastered from the original master tapes.