With a Heartbeat

With a Heartbeat is an album by saxophonist Pharoah Sanders and cornetist Graham Haynes.

On the album, which is based on heartbeat sounds recorded by Dr. Jean-Louis Zink, Sanders and Haynes are joined by guitarist Nicky Skopelitis, keyboardist Jeff Bova, and tabla player Trilok Gurtu.

[1][2][3][4] In a review for AllMusic, Sean Westergaard wrote that the heartbeat-based music "comes off far better in execution than one might expect," and noted: "Pharoah Sanders' playing is excellent, and the album is enjoyable, but one gets the sense that this is Laswell's project, and Pharoah just plays on it.

"[1] The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings stated that Graham Haynes "impresses," and commented: "As a side-project for a cardiologist, it must have been a gas; as a jazz record it falls pretty short.

"[5] Brian Gilmore of Jazz Times remarked: "On With a Heartbeat, Sanders has probably gone to some of the places that Trane would go now were he still around.