Moon Child (Pharoah Sanders album)

Moon Child
Studio album by
Pharoah Sanders
Released1990
RecordedOctober 12 & 23, 1989
StudioStudio Davout, Paris, France
GenreJazz
Length52:23
LabelTimeless SJP 326
ProducerWim Wigt
Pharoah Sanders chronology
A Prayer Before Dawn
(1987) 		Moon Child
(1990) 		Welcome to Love
(1990)

Moon Child is an album led by saxophonist Pharoah Sanders recorded in 1989 and released on the Dutch Timeless label.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz[4]

In his review for AllMusic, Steve Loewy commented: "The results may have originally disappointed some of Sanders' fans, but with time the saxophonist clearly reinvented himself as a more traditional improviser capable of thoughtful and pensive deliberations".[2]

The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings called Moon Child "the straightest jazz album [Sanders had] made for years," and noted: "you can readily hear the kind of thing Sanders is after, a hypnotic groove that allows the horn to float almost at will."[3]

Track listing

  1. "Moon Child" (Pharoah Sanders) - 8:10
  2. "Moon Rays" (Horace Silver) - 6:15
  3. "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" (Buddy Bernier, Jerry Brainin) - 12:19
  4. "All or Nothing at All" (Arthur Altman, Jack Lawrence) - 9:25
  5. "Soon" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 5:31
  6. "Moniebah" (Abdullah Ibrahim) - 10:43

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Pharoah Sanders discography accessed January 15, 2015
  2. ^ a b Loewy, Steve. Moonchild – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved January 15, 2015.
  3. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1259. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2004). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin Books. p. 765.