Something Blue – Consequence – May 30, 2026
Pharoah Sanders – Karma
This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.
Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM Central, at kasu.org.
John Coltrane – Meditations
www.johncoltrane.com/
Pharoah Sanders – Karma
pharoahsanders.bandcamp.com/album/izipho-zam-my-gifts
John Coltrane – Meditations
John Coltrane – Consequences
That’s John Coltrane with Pharoah Sanders playing “Consequences”.
Something Blue is broadcast on KASU, Saturday nights at 10:00 Central on 91.9 FM and streaming at kasu.org.
Coming up next is Pharoah Sanders playing “The Creator Has a Master Plan (Part I)”.
Pharoah Sanders – The Creator Has a Master Plan (Part I)
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Pharoah Sanders – The Creator Has a Master Plan (PartII)
Now that’s what I’m talking about. We heard Pharoah Sanders playing “The Creator Has a Master Plan (PartII)” from his album “Karma”.
“Karma” was a hit LP both commercially and critically, and it continues to sell well today.
According to Wikipedia most of Sanders’ best-selling work was made in the late sixties and early seventies for Impulse!. Notably including his 30-minute composition, “The Creator Has a Master Plan” from the spiritual free-jazz album “Karma” that we heard tonight. This composition featured vocalist Leon Thomas’s unique, “umbo weti” yodeling, and Sanders’ key musical partner, pianist Lonnie Liston Smith, who worked with Sanders from 1969 to 1971.
Pitchfork ranked Karma number 53 on its list of the greatest albums of the sixties. Jazzwise listed it as one of the 100 Jazz Albums That Shook The World. The New Yorker put the album on its list of the 100 Essential Jazz Albums.
Pharoah Sanders recorded “Karma” after he recorded “A Love Supreme” with John Coltrane, a jazz album that’s in everyone’s top five. I would say that “A Love Supreme” and “Karma” define spiritual jazz, a free jazz genre that remains popular today, over 50 years later.
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Something Blue is broadcast on KASU, Saturday nights at 10:00 Central on 91.9 FM and streaming at kasu.org.
I’m Hairy Larry, host of Something Blue. For more information about John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders I posted links on the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.
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Pharoah Sanders was born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1940. He led a long life of jazz performance before he passed in 2022. Besides playing with John Coltrane he played with many other jazz luminaries including Carla Bley, Charlie Haden, Leon Thomas, Alice Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Don Cherry, Larry Coryell, Gato Barbieri, and many others.
He released his last album, “Promises” in 2021 featuring the London Symphony Orchestra.
Closing the show here’s John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders playing “The Father And The Son And The Holy Ghost” from the John Coltrane album, “Meditations”.
John Coltrane – The Father And The Son And The Holy Ghost
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