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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” when he listed it at #38 on his Top 100 Albums.

Track listing:
Side one
1. “Black Unity (part one)” 18:28
Side two
1. “Black Unity (part two)” 18:58

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Black Unity (Verve By Request Series)[LP]

• For 1971's Black Unity, Pharaoh Sanders added groove to the foundation of spiritual and free jazz he had explored on his previous Impulse! albums

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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

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Released: December 8, 1971
Recorded: November 24, 1971
Length: 37:21
Label: Impulse!
Producer: Lee Young