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Surging through My Favourite Things at a swirling 6/8 tempo, Sanders sounded urgent and angry. His huge sound, boiling up from the deepest bell-notes of the instrument, rent the air with abrasive bi-tones and arpeggios.

One imagined some frustrating immigration formalities at the airport earlier. Drummer Joe Farnsworth and pianist William Henderson kept up an impressive head of steam, yet despite their volume, it was Reeds's powerful pulse that dominated the beat.

That number lasted half an hour, but nobody was complaining. So did Over and Over Again, everybody's favourite pick from Coltrane's ballads album.

Here Sanders showed his lyricism, linking complex clusters with simple and effective phrases. No other hornman has such a highly-tuned dramatic sense.

After an accomplished piano solo from Henderson, the white-bearded wizard returned for a stirring out-chorus, climaxing with his famous key-slapping coda in which the saxophone seems to be playing itself.

Even fans who had seen this trick before roared with delight and wonderment. Pharoah had spoken.

Ends tomorrow (0870 060 3777).

Pharoah Sanders, Led Bib