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LOS ANGELES -- Little Rock-born Pharoah Sanders, the legendary jazz saxophonist perhaps best known for his transcendent work with John Coltrane and for a solo run for Impulse Records beginning in the mid-1960s, and who helped define the so-called spiritual jazz movement, has died. He was 81.
Pharoah Sanders, the revered tenor saxophonist known to the jazz world for the spirituality of his work, has died. He was 81.
Sanders was famous for his work alongside John Coltrane and his lengthy masterwork The Creator Has a Master Plan.
Pharoah Sanders, cosmic jazz saxophonist, dead at 81
Pharoah Sanders, one of the most wildly inventive figures in jazz who wrestled his saxophone to its limits and felt equally at home in Indian and African music, died Saturday. He was 81.