#GreatAlbums1990s – TOP 20 - #PharaohSanders - #MessageFromHome (1996). Although jazz critics prefer Sanders’s Coltrane-oriented Crescent with Love (1993), MFH was a fascinating hybrid of modern jazz, African worldbeat and R&B. Sanders’ virtuosic sax is just one element among funky bass and drums, chanted vocals (“Our Roots Began in Africa” – surely one of the era’s great earworms), and the kora (on the lovely “Kumba”). A crossover gem for jazzers and non-jazzers alike.
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