National Sawdust and Luaka Bop announce a tribute to Pharoah Sanders with a workshop performance of The Harvest Time Project on Saturday, October 14.

Pharoah Sanders, one of the most important and innovative recording artists of our time, is celebrated in The Harvest Time Project—a series of ever-evolving live iterations of Sanders’ iconic 1977 record: 𝓟𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓸𝓪𝓱.

Following Sanders’ passing in 2022, The Harvest Time Project was created in tribute to the late-saxophonist, to be performed around the world by different ensembles reinterpreting the record’s seminal track: Harvest Time. This workshop performance will be performed at National Sawdust by Jeff Parker, Chad Taylor, James Brandon Lewis, and special guest (and original 𝓟𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓸𝓪𝓱 guitarist) Tisziji Muñoz, under the musical direction of Joshua Abrams.

The performance follows the first-ever official reissue of the record by Luaka Bop on September 15. This rerelease will be accompanied by rarely seen archival material, extensive liner notes, and photography, as well as previously unreleased live recordings of “Harvest Time” from 1977.

A bold experiment, a failed session and a love story combined, 𝓟𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓸𝓪𝓱 became a giant, and much-bootlegged, work of the 20th century. The record includes one of Pharoah Sanders’ greatest artistic achievements: “Harvest Time,” a piece given its name by Sanders’ then-wife and the record’s harmonium player, Bedria Sanders, whose influence and inspiration can be found across the recording.

The Harvest Time Project at National Sawdust, Saturday October 14