Black Unity

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Black Unity is a composition and album by jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, recorded and released in late 1971. The whole album consists of a single thirty-seven-minute track, which was described by critic Joe S. Harrington as "an exercise in sustained harmonic groove that cannot be beaten"^[2] when he listed it at #38 on his Top 100 Albums. The compact disc reissue of 1997 unites the two parts as a single track, timed at 37:21.

Track listing

Side one

Side two

Personnel

• Pharoah Sanders — soprano and tenor saxophone, balafon
• Marvin "Hannibal" Peterson — trumpet
• Carlos Garnett — flute, tenor saxophone
• Joe Bonner — piano
• Stanley Clarke, Cecil McBee — bass
• Norman Connors, Billy Hart — drums
• Lawrence Killian — conga, balafon, talking drum, percussion

Production

• Lee Young — producer
• Tony May — engineer
• Michael Cuscuna — reissue producer
• Erick Labson — remastering
• Hollis King — art direction
• Christine Lee — graphic design
• Chuck Stewart — photography

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