''Love Will Find a Way'' is an album by saxophonist

Pharoah Sanders Pharoah Sanders (born Ferrell Lee Sanders; October 13, 1940 – September 24, 2022) was an American jazz saxophonist. Known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound", San ...

. It was recorded in Burbank, California, in 1977, and was released in 1978 by

Arista Records Arista Records () is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. The label was previously handled by BMG Entertainmen ...

. On the album, which was produced by Norman Connors, Sanders is joined by a large ensemble of musicians. ''Love Will Find a Way'', which features vocalist Phyllis Hyman, was Sanders' first release on Arista, and represented a turn toward more commercial music. According to writer Tom Terrell, the album "became a quiet storm classic, sold pretty well, revived Hyman's career and positioned Pharoah as heir-apparent to Grover Washington Jr.'s throne." In an interview, however, Sanders stated that he resisted being pigeonholed, commenting "No, I ain't gonna be that way, it's either me or else." The song "Love Will Find a Way" appears as the closing track on Philip Bailey's 2019 album of the same name.

Reception

A writer for ''

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'' called the album "a soothing, mood setting collection of instrumentally oriented cuts."

Track listing

# "Love Will Find a Way" (Bedria Sanders) – 5:12 # "Pharomba" (Pharoah Sanders) – 4:32 # "Love Is Here" (Pharoah Sanders) – 4:43 # " Got to Give It Up" (

Marvin Gaye Marvin Pentz Gay Jr., who also spelled his surname as Gaye (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984), was an American singer and songwriter. He helped to shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an in-house session player and later as a solo ar ...

) – 6:29 # "As You Are" ( Norman Connors,

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) – 5:08 # " Answer Me My Love" (

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Fred Rauch Fred Rauch ( Vienna, 28 September 1909 – Gmund am Tegernsee, 1 June 1997) was an Austrian singer and songwriter. He wrote the original German lyrics "Schütt die Sorgen in ein Gläschen Wein, Mütterlein" with Gerhard Winkler, which became '' ...

, Gerhard Winkler) – 6:42 # "Everything I Have Is Good" (Pharoah Sanders) – 6:00

Personnel

– tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, percussion * Terry Harrington – saxophone * William Green – saxophone *

Ernie Watts Ernest James Watts (born October 23, 1945) is an American jazz and rhythm and blues saxophonist who plays soprano, alto, and tenor saxophone. He has worked with Charlie Haden's Quartet West and toured with the Rolling Stones. On Frank Zappa's ...

– reeds * Charles Findley – trumpet *

Oscar Brashear Oscar Brashear (born August 18, 1944) is an American jazz trumpeterGeorge Bohanon – trombone * Lew McCreary – trombone * Sidney Muldrow – French horn * Vincent DeRosa – French horn *

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– keyboards * Khalid Moss – keyboards * Bobby Lyle – keyboards *

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– electric guitar *

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– electric guitar *

Alex Blake Alex Blake (born Alejandro Blake Fearon Jr.) is a jazz bass player. Biography Blake was born in Panama and moved to the United States at the age of 7, growing up in Brooklyn, NY. He began his career with Sun Ra in his band Arkestra. He became o ...

– bass (tracks 1 and 3) * Donny Beck – bass (tracks 1, 4, 5, and 7) * Eddie Watson – bass (track 6) * Phyllis Hyman – vocals (tracks 3, 5, and 7) * Norman Connors – timpani, drums, percussion, gong, vocals * Kenneth Nash – congas, bongos, cymbal, gong, percussion * James Gadson – drums (tracks 1, 4, and 7) *

Lenny White Leonard "Lenny" White III (born December 19, 1949) is an American jazz fusion drummer who was a member of the band Return to Forever led by Chick Corea in the 1970s. White has been called "one of the founding fathers of jazz fusion". He has won ...

– drums (tracks 2 and 3) * Raymond Pounds – drums (tracks 5 and 6) * The Water Family – backing vocals

References

{{Reflist 1978 albums Pharoah Sanders albums Arista Records albums