{"id":1098,"date":"2011-05-02T12:36:14","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T11:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2011-05-02T12:36:14","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T11:36:14","slug":"pharoah-sanders-quartet-band-on-the-wall-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=1098","title":{"rendered":"Pharoah Sanders Quartet;  Band on the Wall, Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Tenor sax giant, Pharoah Saunders came to Manchester on the first of May channelling the spirit and legacy of his great mentor, John Coltrane. <span> <\/span>The first half of the concert was all Coltrane favourites:<span> <\/span>Giant Steps, Naima and then, My Favourite Things. <span> <\/span>Sanders is obviously not as agile on his pins as he once was, and a quick blast of the theme of Giant Steps and he was off to the Green Room. <span> <\/span>This left his good, but not great, band of Jonathan Gee, piano, Marc Hodgson bass and the truly magisterial Gene Caderazzo on drums to introduce themselves.<span> <\/span>Fortunately, Sanders came back in to prove that if his legs aren\u2019t so steady then his chops obviously are.<span> <\/span>Giant Steps provided the jumping off point for a torrent of notes in the Coltrane style.<span> <\/span>And if all this sounds too anchored in Trane\u2019s shadow, the thing about Sanders\u2019 playing is its fundamental elegance and warmth. <span> <\/span>This was shown to very great effect in Sanders\u2019 lovely, poignant rendering of the ballad, Naima. <span> <\/span>And, if My Favourite Things seems to much of a Trane thing, then Sanders proved that even within the Coltrane style, he offers something brilliantly his own. The first half finished off with a too, too brief rendering of Sanders\u2019 own, and very funky, \u2018The Creator has a Master Plan\u2019; showing that not only can he still get round the notes on the horn, his beefy, soulful voice is in very good order too. <span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Jonathan Gee\u2019s evening was not helped by the Band on the Wall Steinway, which needs the top octave looking at. <span> <\/span>But the second half began with Gee\u2019s lovely light tenor voice, out-Kurt-Elling-Kurt Elling, in a fine version of \u2018When Nightingales Sang in Berkeley   Square\u2019. <span> <\/span>And Gee\u2019s piano playing was more than a match for the song, too. <span> <\/span>Then Sanders launched into a terrific version of Trane\u2019s Cousin Mary. <span> <\/span>The set finished with a fuller version of \u2018The Creator has a Master Plan\u2019, which showed the band at its very best: driving, funky, whole-hearted. <span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Ian Pople <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tenor sax giant, Pharoah Saunders came to Manchester on the first of May channelling the spirit and legacy of his great mentor, John Coltrane. 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