Karma (Pharoah Sanders album)

Karma
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 1969
RecordedFebruary 14 & 19, 1969
StudioRCA, New York City
GenreAvant-garde jazz, spiritual jazz, free jazz[1]
Length37:30
LabelImpulse! Records
ProducerBob Thiele
Pharoah Sanders chronology
Tauhid
(1967)
Karma
(1969)
Jewels of Thought
(1969)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
Rolling Stone(favorable) [2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]
Uncut9/10[4]

Karma is a jazz recording by the American tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, released in May 1969 on the Impulse! label, with catalog number AS 9181. A pioneering work of the spiritual jazz style, it has become Sanders' most popular and critically acclaimed album.

  1. ^ a b "Allmusic review". Allmusic. All Media Guide. Retrieved June 16, 2011.
  2. ^ Winner, Langdon (October 18, 1969). "Records". Rolling Stone (44). San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc.: 42.
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1258. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ^ "How to Buy Pharoah Sanders". Uncut. November 2023. p. 69.