Sanders is probably the shiniest example of late Coltrane's music. His very intense and aggressive style of playing expertly portrays the intensity of his and Coltrane's music. His early albums are perhaps best received by the jazz community while his latter career is a mixed bag of good and cheesy. Heart is a Melody is a live album recorded in 1983 and it offers one of the greatest renditions of Olé that wasn't done by Coltrane himself. On this album Olé is a 22 minute behemoth filled with emotions of pain and joy and the longer it goes the more intense it gets culminating in screams by Pharoah near the end. This song alone makes this album absolutely fantastic. Other songs are much more subdued but are fairly serviceable. Some of them are cheesy but if you're in a mood for that positive spiritual jazz you'll probably like it. The only song that I don't like is the rendition of Naima which was disappointingly tame and safe for Sanders standards.
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