Announcing The Harvest Time Project

Announcing Pharoah Sanders’ Pharoah & The Harvest Time Project

Pharoah Sanders, 1977. Photograph by Rob Miseur / Courtesy of Centro Studi A. Polillo - Siena Jazz.

In honor of Pharoah Sanders and the long-awaited remastering and re-release of his seminal record from 1977 Pharoah, we’re launching the Harvest Time Project.

Here we’ll share the results of the extensive research we did throughout Europe and North America to support the release of the new Pharoah box set, sharing the insights made by a dedicated research team, including essays by Harmony Holiday, Marcus J. Moore, and Pierre Crépon—whose writing appears in the box set—among many others.

As part of this, we’re also very excited to announce the live show The Harvest Time Project: A Tribute to Pharoah Sanders, with a bespoke concert series featuring the original guitarist Tisziji Muñoz and a selection of different musical ensembles who will come together in different iterations to reinterpret the composition “Harvest Time.” 

The world premiere will take place at Le Guess Who? (Nov 12), featuring Irreversible Entanglements, Domenico Lancellotti, and special guest Tisziji Muñoz, under the musical direction of Joshua Abrams. And a special workshop performance will take place at National Sawdust (Oct 14), in honor of Pharoah's birthday. 

If you want to stay abreast of everything we’re doing around the Harvest Time Project, be sure to bookmark this page. This is where we’ll be sharing all our in-depth research into the Pharoah and this album over the next few months.

This photo was taken by Rob Miseur while Pharoah was on a brief but intense tour during the summer of ’77, unearthed by the Belgian researcher Lander Lenaerts of Jazztime Europe.