AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head
Acoustic Sounds Impulse A-9181 - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl - AAA 100% Analogue
Limited Edition - Pressed at QRP Quality Record Pressings
Mastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound from the original analog tapes
Karma is the Sgt. Pepper’s of spiritual jazz, in that it appeals to both the public and critics on a large scale. Dominated by the nearly 33-minute “The Creator Has A Master Plan,” the album has become a totem of transcendental music, at once approachable and challenging in a rare way. Consider it the ambitious offspring of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme—maybe even the student who ends up surpassing his mentor.
Released in May of 1969, Karma was the famed tenor saxophonist's third Impulse! Records album and is now seen as a milestone of the Spiritual Jazz movement. A natural progression in the sonic exploration that
Sanders, along with John Coltrane and Alice Coltrane, had spearheaded throughout the previous five years, the album features two tracks, the 32-minute-long "The Creator Has A Master Plan," and "Colors." Filling the entire A-Side of the LP, "Creator," co-composed by Sanders with vocalist Leon Thomas, is as close as Spiritual Jazz comes to having its own anthem. Meanwhile, the lone B-side track, "Colors," is no less transfixing.
Musicians
Nat Bettis percussion
Ron Carter bass
Richard Davis bass
Billy Hart drums
Pharoah Sanders tenor sax
Lonnie Liston Smith piano
James Spaulding flute
Leon Thomas percussion, vocals
Freddie Waits drums
Julius Watkins French horn
Reggie Workman bass
Side A
1. The Creator Has A Master Plan
Side B
1. Colors