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Pharoah Sanders
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American jazz saxophonist (1940–2022)
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1940
- Active to
- 2022
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Pharoah Sanders (1940-2022) was a U.S. jazz saxophonist. Sanders was born on 13th October 1940 in Little Rock, Arkansas, under the name Farrell Sanders. He began his professional career playing tenor saxophone in Oakland, California. Sanders moved to New York City in 1962. He received his nickname "Pharoah" from Sun Ra, with whom Sanders performed. He came to prominence playing with John Coltrane's band starting in 1965, as Coltrane began experimenting with the music which would soon become kn
Key facts
- Born
- Ferrell Lee Sanders , ( 1940-10-13 ) October 13, 1940, Little Rock, Arkansas , U.S.
- Died
- September 24, 2022 (2022-09-24) (aged 81), Los Angeles , California , U.S.
- Genres
- Jazz , spiritual jazz , free jazz , avant-garde jazz , world fusion , ethno jazz , post-bop
- Occupations
- Musician, composer, bandleader
- Instrument
- Tenor saxophone , Soprano Saxophone
- Years active
- 1964–2022
- Labels
- ESP-Disk , Douglas , Theresa , Impulse! , Strata East , Luaka Bop
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Sanders
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Little Rock
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Islam
- Award
- NEA Jazz Masters
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- tenor saxophone
- Record label
- ESP-Disk
- Official website
- pharoahsandersjazz.com
- Image
- Pharoah Sanders photo.jpg
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- Pharoah Sanders
- date of birth
- 1940-10-13
- start of work period
- 1964-00-00
- date of death
- 2022-09-24
- name in native language
- Pharoah Sanders
- end of work period
- 2022-00-00
- ethnic group
- African Americans
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Encyclopedic overview
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, and later through his solo work. He released more than thirty albums as a leader and collaborated extensively with vocalist Leon Thomas and pianist Alice Coltrane, among many others. Fellow saxophonist Ornette Coleman once described him as "probably the best tenor player in the world".
Sanders' take on spiritual jazz was rooted in his inspiration from religious concepts such as karma and tawhid, and his rich, meditative performance aesthetic. This style was seen as a continuation of Coltrane's work on albums such as A Love Supreme. As a result, Sanders was considered to have been a disciple of Coltrane or, as Albert Ayler said, "Trane was the Father, Pharoah was the Son, I am the Holy Ghost".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pharoah Sanders” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.