AFRICA 2/5/2006 and sat on Billboard’s Top

and sat on Billboard’s Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart for over 125 weeks

A melancholy ode to rural America

raucous hard rock

but it includes some very strong sections and provides a powerful

AFRICA 2/5/2006 and sat on Billboard’s TopPersonnel: Pharoah Sanders (tenor saxophone), John Hicks (piano), Curtis Lundy (bass), Idris Muhammed (drums). Tributee: John Coltrane. As Kevin Whitehead's liner notes to this release reflect, Sanders "pays explicit tribute to his late mentor John Coltrane as this set's Coltrane oriented sound makes unashamedly clear." Actually, Coltrane penned only one of the eight tunes, while Sanders wrote six, but the spirit of the master looms heavily