Pharoah Sanders  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Revision as of 21:14, 25 September 2022; view current revision
←Older revision | Newer revision→
Jump to: navigation, search

"Pharoah Sanders' music has been called "spiritual jazz" due to his inspiration in religious concepts such as karma and tawhid on Karma and Tauhid, and his rich, meditative aesthetic."--Sholem Stein

You prophesied the return of mandolins
and tambourines and tinkling bells,
and triangles and cymbals,
and they sided in on beams from Pharoah Sanders as I slept
taking me unaware, tripping,
blowing my mind.

—"Sweet Songs" (1976) by Sarah Webster Fabio

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Shop

Featured:

Pharoah Sanders (born Farrell Sanders; October 13, 1940 – September 23, 2022) was an American jazz saxophonist. A member of John Coltrane's groups of the mid-1960s, Sanders was known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound". He released over 30 albums as a leader and collaborated extensively with Leon Thomas and Alice Coltrane, among others.

Sanders' music has been called spiritual jazz due to his inspiration in religious concepts such as Karma and Tawhid, and his rich, meditative aesthetic. This style was seen as a continuation of Coltrane's work on albums such as A Love Supreme.

Most of Sanders' best-selling work was made in the late 1960s and early 1970s for Impulse Records, including the 30-minute wave-on-wave of free jazz "The Creator has a Master Plan" from the album Karma. Sanders's recordings such as "You've Got to Have Freedom" influenced a new generation when his music was a major influence on the British acid jazz scene from the late 1980s and 1990s.

Contents

Selected discography

With John Coltrane

  • 1965 - Kulu Se Mama
  • 1965 - Om
  • 1965 - Meditations
  • 1965 - Ascension
  • 1965 - Live In Seattle
  • 1966 - Live At The Village Vanguard Again!
  • 1966 - Live In Japan
  • 1967 - Expression
  • 1967 - The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording

Under his own name

With others

Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Pharoah Sanders" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.

Retrieved from "http://artandpopularculture.com/Pharoah_Sanders"
Personal tools
Metas