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Pharoah Sanders (born Ferrell Lee Sanders; October 13, 1940 – September 24, 2022) was an American jazz saxophonist. Known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound", Sanders played a prominent role in the development of free jazz and spiritual jazz through his work as a member of John Coltrane's groups in the mid-1960s ...
Dec 29, 2022 · On that Saturday, the legendary tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, a man who blew his horn “as if he was a dragon breathing fire”, passed on, at age 81. With his death came the end of a ...
Sep 13, 2023 · Sept. 13, 2023. In trying to capture what lay at the powerful core of the saxophonist Pharoah Sanders ’s music, the British journalist Valerie Wilmer once referenced a conversation with a ...
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Sep 25, 2022 · Albert Ayler’s famous formulation went like this: “Trane was the Father, Pharoah was the Son, I am the Holy Ghost.”. The Son lived among men, his feet planted on the ground. For Sanders ...
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Jun 21, 2018 · The so-called spiritual jazz of Pharoah Sanders and other late-Sixties and early-Seventies seekers remains a major element of Washington’s sound on Heaven and Earth.
- Hank Shteamer
Oct 5, 2023 · A shared resting place for Pharoah Sanders. A reissue and a requiem exhibit the late saxophonist's capacity for communion. October 5, 20231:00 PM ET. By. Harmony Holiday. Enlarge this image. In ...
Sep 24, 2022 · Pharoah was born Ferrell Sanders on Oct. 13, 1940, in Little Rock, Ark. His love of music began at home, through his choir-leading grandfather.
