MUSIC

The Harvest Time Project: A Tribute to Pharoah Sanders

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2023
8:00 PM

National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

$38.45
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Pharoah Sanders’s 1976 “Harvest Time” (for sax, harmonium, guitar, bass, and percussion) is just some of the best Western music there is. People at the time complained that the theretofore volcanic Sanders was drifting into New Age — but now it sounds like he was getting an early start on his trip to heaven. This music is meditative, but while you’d never call it tense, it certainly isn’t lax. Chicago Scenester Joshua Abrams has been leading different ensembles of different compositions to explore the work; tonight’s includes among others Jeff Parker, the Neo-Pop-to-New-Music guitarist who is one of this List’s Chicago favorites.

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