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ALBUMHarvest Time (Live, 1977)Pharoah Sanders
Albums by Pharoah Sanders
ALBUMPromises (feat. London Symphony Orchestra)Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, London Symphony Orchestra & Sam Shepherd
ALBUMPharoah & The Underground - Spiral Mercury (feat. Rob Mazurek, Guilherme Granado, Mauricio Takara, Mattew Lux & Chad Taylor)Sao Paulo Underground & Pharoah Sanders
ALBUMWith a HeartbeatPharoah Sanders & Bill Laswell
ALBUMAfrica n'da BluesKahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio & Pharoah Sanders
ALBUMSpiritsAdam Rudolph, Hamid Drake & Pharoah Sanders
ALBUMSave Our ChildrenPharoah Sanders
ALBUMMessage from HomePharoah Sanders
ALBUMSolomon's DaughterFranklin Kiermyer & Pharoah Sanders
ALBUMWelcome to LovePharoah Sanders
ALBUMMoon ChildPharoah Sanders
Artist Playlists
Pharoah Sanders Essentials
Free jazz dynamo who more than held his own with Coltrane.
Pharoah Sanders: The Session Musicians
He cut his teeth working for Coltrane and others.
Pharoah Sanders: Deep Cuts
Spiritual, passionate jazz with an avant-garde edge.
Artist Biography
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1940, saxophonist Pharoah Sanders stands as a crucial link between free jazz and spiritual jazz. After high school, he moved to Oakland, where he had relatives; he played locally for a couple of years, meeting and befriending John Coltrane along the way, before relocating to New York in 1961. Sanders played off and on in Sun Ra’s Arkestra, but his career took off via his work with Coltrane, beginning with the influential Ascension in 1965, which blended Sanders’ caustic, fiery tenor attack with a meditative intensity that absorbed ’Trane’s spiritual seeking. Sanders went on to play with Don Cherry and Alice Coltrane, and, after dropping his debut album on the ESP-Disk imprint in 1965, he began a long association with Impulse Records, becoming a leading figure in the early-’70s spiritual jazz scene. In the decades since, he’s maintained a post-bop sound while recording with a variety of collaborators, including master Moroccan musician Mahmoud Guinia in the 1990s and electronic music producer Floating Points on the acclaimed 2021 album Promises.
Hometown
Little Rock, AR, United States
Genre
Jazz