PHAROAH SANDERS NEAR MINT 1ST PRESSING "JEWELS OF THOUGHT". THE VINYL IS NEAR MINT (MAYBE PLAYED ONCE!). 
Excerpts from the AllMusic.com review Jewels of Thought

by Thom Jurek

 

In 1969, Pharoah Sanders was incredibly active, recording no less than four albums and releasing three. Jewels of Thought is comprised of two long cuts,  "Hum-Allah" begins with a two-chord piano vamp by Lonnie Liston-Smith and Leon Thomas singing and yodeling his way into the band's improvisational space. For 12 minutes, Sanders and company mix it up -- especially the drummers -- whipping it first quietly down into the most pure melodic essences of Smith's solo and then taking the tension and building to ecstatic heights with all manner of blowing and intervallic interaction between the various elements until it just explodes, before coming down in pieces and settling into a hush of melodic frames and the same two-chord vamp. On "Sun in Aquarius," African thumb pianos, reed flutes, sundry percussion, and orchestra chimes are employed to dislocate all notions of Western music. Things get very quiet (though there is constant motion); the innards of the piano are brushed and hammered quietly before Sanders comes roaring out of the tense silence with his bass clarinet, and then the tenor and bass share an intertwined solo and Smith starts kicking ass with impossibly large chords. It moves into another two-chord vamp at the end of 27 minutes, to be taken out as a closed prayer. It's more like a finished exorcism, actually, but it is one of the most astonishing pieces by Sanders ever recorded.

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THE FRONT & BACK COVERS ARE NEAR PERFECT (NO SEAM SPLITS, NO CORNER DINGS OR RING WEAR. INNER SLEEVES ARE ORIGINAL. INSIDE THE GATEFOLD THERE IS A MINOR (INEXPLICABLE) SPLIT IN THE CENTER OF THE GATEFOLD (HASN'T AFFECTED THE OUTSIDE COVER AT ALL). ALSO THERE ARE BARELY NOTICEABLE STRIPS OF DISCOLORED TAPE REMNANTS ACROSS THE TOP AND BOTTOM. PLEASE SEE PHOTOS.