In the May 1978 issue of Black Music & Jazz Review, Pharoah Sanders featured - on the back of the release of his album 'Love Will Find a Way'. Chris May wrote a two page spread on the Sanders story to date. Compared to other older Sanders' retrospectives in the blog, it's a different style, and perhaps a little lazy on Pharoah's post-Impulse output. However, it does have new information. The first paragraph I find strange in retrospect - that in 1977 and 1978 jazz was such a vigorous and influential force in popular music. And compared to 1968. Perhaps jazz had lost some of its cool then, but was it really so huge and influential ten years later ? Pharoah Sanders' latest album, 'Love Will Find A Way' has just been released. Chris May discusses his story so far. During the last two years jazz has become so vigorous and influential a force in popular music — commanding an audience of such unprecedented size and youth — that it's easy to forget the ...
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