Pharoah Sanders
album for the India Navigation label was known alternately as
Pharoah
or
Harvest Time
, sees his vision of the jazz group -- a sonic melange approximating nirvana -- beginning to drift into watery new age muzak. Obviously, the playing is excellent (especially
Steve Neil
on bass), but the 20-minute title track goes nowhere in its search for bluesy riffs,
Sanders
' vocal on
"Love Will Find a Way"
sounds quite out of place, and
"Memories of Edith Johnson"
is five minutes of a boringly repetitive organ line. Clearly,
was losing his way a full ten years after the death of
John Coltrane
. ~ John Bush