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Greeting To Saud Brother Mccoy Tyner by Pharoah Sanders

Artist Biography For Pharoah Sanders

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 Known As Avant-Garde Jazz. Although He Developed A Slightly Different Style From Coltrane Sanders Was Strongly Influenced By Their Collaboration Together. Sanders Was Also Greatly Influenced By Coltrane's Earlier Works In Which Sanders Did Not Collaborate Particularly A Love Supreme. Spiritual Elements Such As The Chanting In A Love Supreme Would Later Show Up In Many Of Sanders' Own Works. Sanders Would Also Go On To Produce Much Free Jazz Being Influenced By His Free Jazz Collaborations With Coltrane Particularly Coltrane's Most Notable Free-Jazz Work Ascension 1965 As Well As Their Dual-Tenor Recording Meditations 1965 . In 1968 He Participated In Mike Mantler & Carla Bley's JCOA Jazz Composer's Orchestra Association Album Communications Featuring Cecil Taylor Don Cherry Larry Coryell And Gato Barbieri. This Solo Has Been Referred To By John Zorn And Others As The Most Intense And Inspiring Free Tenor Solo Ever Put To Tape. In The 1970s Sanders Pursued His Own Recordings And Continued To Work With The Likes Of Alice Coltrane On Her Journey In Satchidananda Album. In 1994 He Travelled To Morocco To Record With Master Gnawa Musician Maleem Mahmoud Ghania Resulting In The Bill Laswell-Produced The Trance Of Seven Colours. Sanders Continued To Work With Laswell Jah Wobble And Others On The Albums Message From Home 1996 And Save Our Children 1998 . Sanders Is Known For His Overblowing Harmonic And Multiphonic Techniques On The Saxophone As Well As His Use Of "sheets Of Sound".

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