Spirits is a live album by saxophonist Pharoah Sanders on which he is joined by percussionists Hamid Drake and Adam Rudolph.
[1][2][3][4][5] In a review for AllMusic, Michael G. Nastos called the album "a beautiful statement," and wrote: "The music is as the title suggests: spiritual, multi-ethnic, mostly serene, and quite improvisationally derived...
"[6] Bill Shoemaker of Jazz Times described Spirits as "a moving concert recording," and stated that Sanders "listens intently, and he soars as a result...
"[9] AAJ's Derek Taylor remarked: "Throughout all of the tracks Sanders unintentionally answers his critics proving that his sound hasn't mellowed over the years, it's expanded.
There is every bit of the fire of his 60s work infused in his sound today; it's simply been enlarged and enhanced by the advent of age.