Pharoah Sanders

Bandleader, Composer

1940 –

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Who is Pharoah Sanders?

Pharoah Sanders is a Grammy Award-winning American jazz saxophonist.

Saxophonist Ornette Coleman once described him as "probably the best tenor player in the world." Emerging from John Coltrane's groups of the mid-1960s Sanders is known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound." Sanders is an important figure in the development of free jazz; Albert Ayler famously said: "Trane was the Father, Pharoah was the Son, I am the Holy Ghost."

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Born
Oct 13, 1940
Little Rock
Also known as
  • Pharaoh Sanders
  • Sanders, Pharoah
  • Farrell Sanders
Ethnicity
  • African American
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Laney College
Lived in
  • Arkansas
  • Oakland

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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