The Gentle Pharoah Sanders (1940 - 2022)
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- After the Morning (Hicks). Pharoah Sanders, tenor saxophone. John Hicks, piano.
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The sound Mr. Sanders drew from his tenor saxophone was a force of nature: burly, throbbing and encompassing, steeped in deep blues and drawing on extended techniques to create shrieking harmonics and imposing multiphonics. He could sound fierce or anguished; he could also sound kindly and welcoming. (He also played soprano saxophone.)
He first gained wide recognition as a member of John Coltrane’s groups from 1965 to 1967. He then went on to a fertile, prolific career, with dozens of albums and decades of performances.
Mr. Sanders played free jazz, jazz standards, upbeat Caribbean-tinged tunes and African- and Indian-rooted incantations such as “The Creator Has a Master Plan,” which opened his 1969 album, “Karma,” a pinnacle of devotional free jazz. He recorded widely as both a leader and a collaborator, working with Alice Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Randy Weston, Joey DeFrancesco and many others.
Looking back on Mr. Sanders’s career in a 1978 review, Robert Palmer of The New York Times wrote, “His control of multiphonics on the tenor set standards that younger saxophonists are still trying to live up to, and his sound - huge, booming, but capable of great delicacy and restraint - was instantly recognizable.”
“I’m always trying to make something that might sound bad sound beautiful in some way,” Mr. Sanders told The New Yorker in 2020. “I’m a person who just starts playing anything I want to play, and make it turn out to be maybe some beautiful music.”
Mr. Sanders was born Farrell Sanders in Little Rock, Ark, on Oct. 13, 1940. His mother was a cook in a school cafeteria; his father worked for the city. He first played music in church, starting on drums and moving on to clarinet and then saxophone. He played blues, jazz and R&B at clubs around Little Rock; during the era of segregation, he recalled in 2016, he sometimes had to perform behind a curtain.
In 1959 he moved to Oakland, Calif., where he performed at local clubs. His fellow saxophonist John Handy suggested he move to New York City, where the free-jazz movement was taking shape, and in 1962, he did.
At times in his early New York years he was homeless and lived by selling his blood. But he also found gigs in Greenwich Village, and he worked with some of the leading exponents of free jazz, including Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry and Sun Ra.
It was Sun Ra who persuaded him to change his first name to Pharoah, and for a short time Mr. Sanders was a member of the Sun Ra Arkestra.
Mr. Sanders made his first album as a leader, “Pharoah,” for ESP-Disk in 1964. John Coltrane invited him to sit in, and in 1965 Mr. Sanders became a member of Coltrane’s group, exploring elemental, tumultuous free jazz on albums like “Ascension,” “Om” and “Meditations.”
After Coltrane’s death in 1967, Mr. Sanders went on to record with his widow, the pianist and harpist Alice Coltrane, on albums including “Ptah, the El Daoud” and “Journey in Satchidananda,” both released in 1970.
Mr. Sanders had already begun recording as a leader on the Impulse! label, which had also been Coltrane’s home. The titles of his albums - “Tauhid” in 1967, “Karma” in 1969 - made clear his interest in Islamic and Buddhist thought.
His music was expansive and open-ended, concentrating on immersive group interaction rather than solos, and incorporating African percussion and flutes. In the liner notes to “Karma,” the poet, playwright and activist Amiri Baraka wrote, “Pharoah has become one long song.” The 32-minute “The Creator Has a Master Plan” moves between pastoral ease - with a rolling two-chord vamp and a reassuring message sung by Leon Thomas - and squalling, frenetic outbursts, but portions of it found FM radio airplay beyond jazz stations.
During the 1970s and ’80s, Mr. Sanders’s music moved from album-length excursions like the kinetic 1971 “Black Unity” toward shorter compositions, reconnections with jazz standards and new renditions of Coltrane compositions. (He shared a Grammy Award for his work with the pianist McCoy Tyner on the 1987 album “Blues for Coltrane.”) His recordings grew less turbulent and more contemplative. On the 1977 album “Love Will Find a Way,” he tried pop-jazz and R&B, sharing ballads with the singer Phyllis Hyman. He returned to more mainstream jazz with his albums for Theresa Records in the 1980s.
In 2016 Mr. Sanders was named a Jazz Master, the highest honor for a jazz musician in the United States, by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Jon Pareles, New York Times 9/25/22 - Hudba
I am so sad and glad at the same time, im so grateful and thankful that this giant gave us so much beauty that its beyond words.
Ofcourse i am sad because he left his body in this world but he will never leave us through his music and his power in wich he will never trully leave this world. because he will live on in our minds and hearts.
He made me change my life/career by picking up my horn again and making it my goal in life.
Never ending respect and love for this man,
Rest in Power!!!!
RIP Pharoah. You brought other worlds to reality for so many of us. I will never forget listening to Coltrane's Ascension for the first time and hearing your horn leap out of another dimension with a burry, fiery luminosity that made the instrument all but invisible. (And that's saying a lot for the tenor.). Thanks for the unyielding focus on your Creative North Star,: your artistic integrity is a beacon for all Music for all time. You are now with the Eternal, which is but a continuation of your great and beautiful Life. Thanks...bottomless, endless thanks.
Sir Sanders (and JT )
salaom
Now it brings Pharaoh, you, with the Creator in closer embrace than ever. Together.
RIP? In eternal power you will stay and continue your work ... Pharoah opened so many doors at least for me. There is this "Astral Travel" "Red, Green and ..." thing. When I listened to Astral Travel to get through the day, and I listened quite a lot, I had to hurry to push the stop button because the colors would have awakened me from my day dream and the intended relaxation. Then it happened that I continued listening ... don't know why and cannot tell what it was ... methinks it told me something about what we can experience when we stretch out our senses to that what is really real. Ken Mo has one tune entitled "The Door". i heared a silent calling calling softly my name, no need to be ashamed// and i noticed that the door was always open ...
I just learned that this fantastic tenorsaxophonist is dead. I feel very very sorry for that! Pharoah was one of the last giants in jazz.
There are so few left now - Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Keith Jarrett, Sonny Rollins, Roy Haynes and a handfull more.
All these have meant so much for me during all years ever since I startet to listen to jazz!
I will keep them in my heart as long as I live!
It's sad to see them go, but their music is eternal.
Last couple of years have been rough in the loss of some great’s in jazz.
RIP brother Sanders.
RIP master Sanders. Hatts off to the pianist as well. Incredible musician's. Respect from india
Wow, we will all miss him RIP, God had a Master Plan after all.
RIP Master Sander from Dominican republic great musician all time.
I knew both of these beautiful Musical Masters. John Hicks was from my home town and met him in undergraduate school at S. I.U Edwardsville, IL. In 70s and then again at a Jazz Club in New York City in 1975. Met Pharaoh in San Francisco at Keystone Corner Jazzclub where he was performing with Leon Thomas also from my home town of E.St. Louis. Invited them both to dinner at my home in Oakland, CA. but Leon wasn't able to come. Pharaoh came and I made dinner and we ate and talked for 4 hrs.I asked what inspired him to create his music? He said Obviously the Spirit Within. He also said the music he was currently playing he created 20 yrs ago. I asked why not now. His reply was because people were not ready for the music he was creating in the present
During his visit in my home alone with me did he ever do or say anything inappropriate to me. This Musical Master Shaman Sir Pharaoh Sanders Spirit and music will stay in my heart forever. I am heartbroken and sad to know his physical presence is no longer with us. However as mentioned Spirit s Don't Die! A National Treasure,Beautiful Soul & Gentleman will be missed. ♥️🕉️
you were lucky to be in the presence of such angels
@@JazzVideoGuy yes and most grateful! Thank you for this video!♥️🕉️🏵️
Pharoah Sanders thank you for sharing your beautiful gift with the world. Your spirit in your music will live on forever. RIP.
RIP, Farrell Sanders! Gente Giant Father of Spiritual Jazz
I was lucky to see Pharoah Sanders twice - once at Yoshi's in Berkeley with Miya Masaoka playing the koto.
And once at Yoshi's Jack London Square in Oakland.
Watching/hearing music in a small club that holds less that 300 people is just a joy.
Me too 🙌🏽
RIP. The great spirit flowed within him. He gave all us so much enjoyment. Jazz is unique in that people are allowed to be characters or caricatures they choose and people love them. I wish
the World would carry that tune in their hearts everyday. Thanks
Beautiful no barriers in his flow 🎷
he is a waterfall!! force of nature!
I AM SPEECHLESS. HE WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST PLAYERS OF ALL TIME- I LOVE ASTRAL TRAVELING. WE WILL MISS YOU MY MAN, BUT THE CREATOR HAS A MASTER PLAN.
To the greatest!!! Love from Nepal….. will be missed.
Hello Nepal.
I feel such an intense sense of sadness that the "son" has passed. Pharoah has been part of life since 1969. John Coltrane was so influential, however, I discovered Pharoah at age 17 after John's death in 1967.
Pharoah I have lived with your musical progress ever since, on LP, CD and live video. Your profound spirituality has been a foundation to my life. It will continue.
May your life's work never be forgotten, Maestro. You have guided many souls to a better life path. Bless you forever.
Wow Tony, this is so deep, I can feel it a million miles away.
My oldest brother turned me on Pharaoh's music when Tauhid was first released. Instant connection up to this very day. I was in my teens at the time..
I loved his work many years ago with Don Cherry, on Where Is Brooklyn, which revealed even more of Pharaoh's Rollins-esque linear playing.
He will truly be missed.
For sure.
Discovered him by accident and didn't know about his music at all. Great musician. RIP.
No accident just you attracting you
Trane told him to pick up after he'd exhausted himself in performances during 65-67, kind of like passing the baton. And he did so magnificently every time. Saw him at the Jazz Cafe in Camden Town, 2002. Incandescent! Said nothing; just played...
The ✨️ among ✨️. True legacy never dies. Thank you Legend. 👑🖤
Rest in Peace to my favorite Jazz Musician, Pharoah Sanders. I was saddened Saturday reading the headline on Apple News. The Creator Has a Masterplan was immediately played.
Some friends and I were able to see, hear, and even perform from the audience's perspective at Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, California, in the early '70's, (probably 1973). What a joy!
I'm so grateful that I had a chance to see both of these great men in concert. Thank you both for such great music, you'll live on forever.
Pharaoh has returned to forever. Absolutely beautiful, thank you.
Wow, how amazing! I saw Pharoah Saunders in a concert in the 90s in Toronto and it sure seemed like his fingers never stopped moving.
This giant! This genius! This brother! This man! I am forever grateful for the gifts he now leaves us to cherish until the end of our days. Thank you. Sweet sleep Pharoah...
This is a wonderful and beautiful performance by both musicians.
Soul touching!!!
I have so much love for his music and respect for him as an artist.
His essence will be greatly missed by me. I am immensely grateful for all the music he gave to us all!
A fantastic performance here with Pharaoh playing with much fluidity and assurance. Thanks for this special upload.
Our pleasure!
Absolutely beautiful.... Thanks so much for posting this.....
my honor
Pharaoh Sanders played with ferocity as well as sublime lyricism. His "Creator Has A Master Plan" is one of my favorite tunes of all time, and I've listened to this song over the past 45 years more times than I can count. And his other compositions, including Hum Allah Hum Allah are embedded in my musical mind. I was so sorry to hear of his passing, but I know Pharaoh Sanders has left an indelible and enduring musical legacy for this and future generations. I am thankful to have seen and met this legend...His set at The Jazz Showcase was AMAZING and memorable. And sharing time together with him in The Green Room before his gig was GREAT! I knew I was in the presence of a LEGEND. He graciously autographed an album I'd brought to his gig. This album remains on the wall of my music practice room to this day, and just looking at it inspires me as I practice my trumpet each day. Thank you Pharaoh Sanders for all the inspirational and at times turbulent and difficult to listen to, but always sublime music you brought to so many. I, along with many, many others, will miss you.
I saw him one time wearing all white walking through the Berkeley Flea Market he was an ethereal presence even as he was shopping for things this is the passing of a great man and a great part of a Great era God bless and bless his family with his passing to be an ancestor
RIP Pharoah Sanders. While you were on earth you made great jazz music for people to listen to.
There's no death, just music in another realm. Thank you for small gems.
I like your perspective Uranija and your name
I hear you now and today for the first time !!....at my beautiful age of 70 !!
We’re so sad but he’s free to converse with the creator and roam the universe now.
Yes, so true.
saw him in Frankfurt beginnin' 70's...Tahuid lp time...I died listenin' to his sudtelness...
His contribution to this black developed and polished scientific artform called Jazz is immense. He shall be foreever be in the minds & hearts of Jazz music lovers. He left us a consoling legacy that can be enjoyed by whosoever wish in his public unwritten will. I am like many others are grateful that you ever lived. RIP
well said
RIP
RIP Pharoah. I met this giant in Oakland, California at Laney Jr. College(Lake Merritt). Outstanding musician and human being, will be missed but always here thru his music! Loved this brother!!!
I miss him now and it will be a long time before I will accept that he has taken what is the step we all take through the next door.
I admire the technique and sound of this genius and saxophone master. Rest in peace.
Thank you for setting the spiritual groove Mr. Sanders. Rest In Perfect Peace
so beautiful... thank you for sharing
RIP
Rest in Power Pharoah and thank you for all music! ☮
Best Tenor player ever. BDE
Beautiful music of the great Pharaoh Sanders ❤
I never heard his music , I love Jazz ,listening more of his music never to late to learn the life of his music
Je suis dans la même situation, comme un fan de Jazz, bien avant sa mort, je n'ai jamais eu l'occasion de savourer son grand talent. Quel dommage! Je vais le découvrir après sa mort. Mon vieux repose en paix!
R.I.P My Master !!!!
Dead who's dead??? Just a change of garment for higher keys to freed-Om. Beautiful Elegance sound tracking this Eternal journey.
Thank you for the video and the wonderful “liner notes.” ❤️
Glad you dig!
Always a very distinctive sound, sometimes gentle, sometimes ominously powerful!
Your concerts were our place of sanctuary & intersection Forever Thanks & Blessings
I’d heard OF Pharoah but I’d not HEARD Pharoah until now. My instructor and I were working through some tunes that reminded him of Mr. Sanders and while I must say that though there are precious few of the “jazz greats” left, Pharoah Sanders has more than earned the title. RIP and we’ll jam together on the other side.
Unfortunately just learning about this great talent that is now gone. Regardless, I plan on finding more music by Mr. Pharoah Sanders. May he rest in peace! 😔
you'll find quite a bit of Pharoah on CZcams
Blessings for Pharoah's spirit and deep gratitude for all that he shared with us.
Thank you for posting this, Bret!
Glad you enjoyed it
🖤❤️💚👌🏾👆🏾🏆🎶🎼🥇🏆👑👑👆🏾. Thank you so much. He will return again! Our Special King & Ancestor...👌🏾💚👑
The great one... RIP
Quand on entend le nom Phaorah (magnifique prénom) Sanders, on pense tout de suite à Free Jazz. Là, je découvre un sax au son chaud sur un thème musical très beau. Merci beaucoup pour la vidéo.
“Pharaoh Sanders (a corruption of his given name Ferrell Sanders)”
RIP, great jazz musician
Alive forever in our souls 😊
Would there be a genre called Spiritual Jazz without Pharoah Sanders and his music? I don't think so.
Ehi...are you forgetting Jhon Coltrane???!!!...
@@stefanoamodio8943
No.
Sun Ra too. Doug and Jeane Carne as well.
Coltrane and Sun Ra were innovators of the genre too. Pharoah kept it alive. RIP maestro.
Thanks for this.
I accidentally flicked over the closed caption icon at the bottom of the video. It popped up "Subtitles/Closed captions unavailable". None required. Everything was clear.
I still have the ticket stubs from his concert in Edinburgh (Scotland) 26th April 2002. His was a powerful presence and I'm glad I had the opportunity to see him perform.
Another good one gone.
So true. No replacement for Pharoah.
I listened to Pharoa sanders in my youth.
A legend passes but he will never die .. he lives on forever in his music ; a true gift of peace and love to the World which is needed now more than ever . Thank you Pharoah . RIP
I can’t even express what an impact Pharoah and his music had on my life. I first heard his music when my husband purchased the album Karma in 1971. It spoke to everything I am since then. I purchased every album he had available at that time and since then. I always turn to Pharoah’s music whenever I need a healing spiritual presence. Thank you so much for giving me and the world such a blessing with your music.
Pharoah was a remarkable man whose music and life will only grow in importance.
I saw the Great Pharoah at the Univ of Michigan Ann Arbor (excellent acoustics at the auditorium) in 2003 and was transfixed since i first saw him 30 year previous in New York City with Weather Report headlining. He did not miss a beat. His was a happy saxaphone that drove sadness aside -cleared the waters in one's head- so that whatever load one went into his performances with they were quickly forgotten. Rest Well you tarried well and brought joy to many other human beings. Grateful for your life brother.
Weather Report and Pharoah Sanders! That must have been some double bill.
The last of the jazz Giants! RIP Pharaoh.
Nah
Thank you for sharing this video. This performance welled up my eyes from start to finish. 😢❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome
I saw Pharaoh with John Hicks at Jazz Alley in the aughts.
I was transported
The Seatimes music writer failed to appreciate all the beauty
My two favorite Sanders: Pharaoh and Bernie!
Colonel?
So beautiful,Dr. Master of Jazz!
One of a kind...RIP Pharoah...
He concentrated his whole body and mind into each note. Amazing.
Pharoah was a remarkable person and music.
Que músico incrível....
Rest in peace pharoah sanders,till meet again
The great floreal jazzman ever... Eternity love🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for all the beautiful Music you so generously and freely gave to us, RIP.
It’s sad that I’ve now came across this great man after his passing. His music was prolific and he has become a great inspiration for me to conquer my musical aspirations. Thank you for your ethereal sounds. May The Most High Welcome You Back Pharoah
His music is eternal.
Rest in infinite peace good artist, good musician. Salutations to all passed.
still love his work!!
I remember first just stumbling across his song Harvest Time (which is my favorite) in 2021 when I was looking for some Chillhop/Jazzhop type of music, I immediately had to go and get his work. Truly a legend.
A wonerfully humble, soft spoken man.
Rest now Pharaoh. Bless his heart and family.
I had a ticket to see him perform 2019, then he broke his arm and the show was postponed a year. 2020 the show was canceled due to Covid. 2021 lo and behold I kept hearing jazz critics say he had the best jazz album of the year. Pretty remarkable.
Fare thee well Pharaoh the great. Love from 🇰🇪.
Thank you
Another great and might tree has fallen...But man, what a sound he left behind !
I first caught John Hicks with Betty Carter. A wonderful pianist and musician. I heard Pharoah with Coltrane at UW-Madison (shortly after "A Love Supreme"'s release in '65). Elvin and McCoy had left, J. Garrison remaining.. It was "freedom"--perhaps an illustration of its ironical limits. Pharoah returned to Madison after John's passing (early '67), playing a concert at a Rotary Club just off Capitol Square (with Sonny Sharrock). The room was small, the "crowd" only 50-60 listeners. Pharoah started with his horn up to the mic, blowing at full blast--a single pitch loud and unsurrendering. That was not the gentle Sanders..
You are so lucky to seen Trane live!
memories eternal
Rest In Peace and Power to one of the Greats!
Sad to hear of his passing... Thank you for sharing the video....
Digo simplemente : "Gracias Maestro Pharoah".
Rest in Power Mr. Sanders.
Absolutely Stunning!
Thank you! Cheers!
Amazing. Rest in peace.
Gorgeous
A Giant of Jazz in every way....
Brother beyond!!!!
stumbled onto this! glad I did, and immediately I hear Dilla samples..
I would see Pharoah every time he played in NYC in the 1990’s. His shows were spiritual and enchanting. You always knew he was in a much higher existence and experience. There are few words to describe those great moments. RIP brother.
Damn, those shows must have been unreal
They really were.
He is in the biggest band of all with: DIZ, GROVER, DUKE, YUSEF, HEATH BROS, MILES, ERIC, TRANE, MARY LOU, HAZEL, BILLY, SARAH, ESTER, MCCOY, IDRIS, PRES, CARMEN, ALICE TO NAME A FEW AND GABRIEL DOING THEIR THING REST IN POWER WITH THE GOATS !
Blessed 🙌 😇 wowwww he's blowing that saxophone 🎷 👏
This video & these words are more than beautiful ..... Thank You ... simplicity & its grandness💖💥💫😎
A Spiritual Master!
Immenso..
R.i.p.
Great Guy, will never forget his show in São Paulo