Black Unity
by Pharoah Sanders

Black Unity by Pharoah Sanders
Year: 1972
Release date: 1972-01-00
Overall rank: 3,213th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 93 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1972 (54th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (558th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,213th)

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Pharoah Sanders bestography

Black Unity is ranked 2nd best out of 22 albums by Pharoah Sanders on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Pharoah Sanders is Karma which is ranked number 621 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,725.

Pharoah Sanders album bestography « Higher ranked (621st)
Karma
This album (3,213th)
Black Unity
Lower ranked (6,576th) »
Love In Us All

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Black Unity track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Rankings summary
Overall rank: 3,213th | 1970s rank: 558th | 1972 rank: 54th

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Black Unity ratings

Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 93 votes)
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02/11/2026 01:39 AvalancheGrips  Ratings distribution  77685/100
 
80/100
 
01/24/2026 01:47 matterhornrider  Ratings distribution  5,08281/100
 
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12/31/2025 05:41 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  11,82370/100
 
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09/08/2025 08:31 cicadelic  Ratings distribution  13,05673/100
 
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03/26/2025 16:31 Proto  Ratings distribution  4,16133/100

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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.7/100, a mean average of 79.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.0.

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95/100
From 03/15/2018 03:16 | #210963
Nevermind: the whole damn thing is superb. Another excellent work from Pharoah that nearly rivals Karma. There's no beating Karma, but this is still an essential album. It has a very cool flow to it; always moving and changing and progressing, while always toeing the line between form and formlessness.

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From 10/05/2017 04:44 | #199137
part two is superb
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