Pharoah Sanders

April 13, 2011

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Pharoah Saunders is a Grammy Award winning American jazz saxophonist. Ornette Coleman once described him as “probably the best tenor player in the world.” Emerging from John Coltrane’s groups of the mid-60s Sanders is known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of “sheets of sound.” Albert Ayer famously said “Trane was the Father, Pharoah was the Son, I am the Holy Ghost.

Pharoah plays saxaphone on Phil Ranelin, Inspiration.