Pharoah Sanders Live...

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[3]

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "The musicianship is at a high level and, although Sanders does not shriek as much as one might hope (the Trane-ish influence was particularly strong during this relatively mellow period), he is in fine form".^[2]

The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings praised "Doktor Pitt," noting that it "makes the album," and calling it "a big-voiced, dramatic piece with some of Sanders's best playing from this period."^[3]

Jazz Fuel's Matt Fripp included the album in his selection of "Ten Iconic Pharoah Sanders Albums," and commented: "His former mentor John Coltrane is clearly referenced in a straight ballad reading of the standard 'Easy To Remember', whilst a fiery uptempo modal original 'You've Got To Have Freedom' clearly shadows the approach of Coltrane's classic quartet of the early 1960s."^[4]

All compositions by Pharoah Sanders except as indicated

1. "You Got To Have Freedom" – 14:17
2. "Easy to Remember" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 6:52
3. "Blues for Santa Cruz" – 8:39
4. "Pharomba" – 13:26
5. "Doktor Pitt" – 21:34 Bonus track on CD reissue

• Tracks 1 & 2 recorded at The Maiden Voyage, Los Angeles from April 16–19, 1981. Tracks 3 & 4 recorded at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz on April 20, 1981. Track 5 recorded at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco on April 12, 1981.

• Pharoah Sanders – tenor saxophone, vocals
• John Hicks – piano
• Walter Booker – bass
• Idris Muhammad – drums