Pharoah Sanders collaborates with Floating Points and the London Symphony Orchestra

Heritage spiritual jazz returns centrestage next month with news of the 26 March release of a collaboration between Pharoah Sanders and in a border-crossing twist electronica producer Floating Points and the London Symphony Orchestra together on …

Published: 16 Feb 2021. Updated: 3 years.

Heritage spiritual jazz returns centrestage next month with news of the 26 March release of a collaboration between Pharoah Sanders and in a border-crossing twist electronica producer Floating Points and the London Symphony Orchestra together on Promises. A 9-part work that Luaka Bop are putting out, Sanders is ''the son'' in the free-jazz trinity (ergo John Coltrane, the father, Albert Ayler the holy ghost) and turned 80 in the autumn.

Floating Points (aka Sam Shepherd, above left) and Pharoah Sanders

photo: Eric Welles-Nyström

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Red hook launches with the final studio recording of Masabumi Kikuchi as its debut

Erstwhile ECM producer Sun Chung has a new label called Red Hook Records, self-described as ''a place for encounters, where musicians have opportunities to interact with creative minds, share insights, explore and carve new adventurous ways of …

Published: 16 Feb 2021. Updated: 3 years.

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Erstwhile ECM producer Sun Chung has a new label called Red Hook Records, self-described as ''a place for encounters, where musicians have opportunities to interact with creative minds, share insights, explore and carve new adventurous ways of creative wayfaring.'' The first release from the Bantry, County Cork-registered label on 16 April is to be Hanamichi from the Japanese pianist Masabumi Kikuchi (1939-2015). It comprises six solo performances and is the final studio recording by the great musician. Among the label’s other upcoming releases are new projects by trumpeter-composer Wadada Leo Smith, drummer Andrew Cyrille and electronic musician Qasim Naqvi.