Jazz saxophonist and composer Pharoah Sanders died in Los Angeles on Saturday at age 81. Sanders was a pioneer of free jazz and started releasing albums in 1965. He started working with John Coltrane the same year and became a member of his last quintet. The musicians had a mutualContinue Reading
Mark de Clive-Lowe’s Freedom-Celebrating The Music Of Pharoah Sanders is out now. The producer/musician and his friends vocalist Dwight Trible, saxophonist Theodross Avery, percussionist Carlos Nino, bass/sousaphone player Corbin Jones and drummer Tommaso Cappellato recorded the album at the now-closed Blue Whale jazz club in Los Angeles. TheirContinue Reading
[youtube id=”qpGx5pIS_zA”] Pharaoh Sanders was criticized for exploring R&B on his 1978 album Love Will Find A Way because it was different from the free jazz sound he helped to pioneer in the ’60’s. As a former member of John Coltrane’s band during his avant-garde jazz period Sanders was expectedContinue Reading
[vimeo id=”36594918″] Pharoah Sanders – The Creator Has A Master Plan from Funk Drops on Vimeo. Pharoah Sanders established himself as a free-jazz leader in the ’60’s after working with Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane. His 1969 Karma album is always cited for the spiritually-influenced “The Creator HasContinue Reading