When this one-off show at the Hollywood Bowl was originally booked, the LA-based legendary saxophonist Pharoah Sanders was still with us. After his passing in September of last year, this special event became a celebration of his life, nearly a year to the day after his death.
Although the critically acclaimed Promises was very much a Floating Points (Sam Shepherd) record, Shepherd does not take centre stage at the Bowl; instead he is, along with Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) and Dan Snaith (Caribou) merely a piece in the expansive Los Angeles Studio Orchestra led by conductor Miguel Atwood-Ferguson.
