Saxophone’s Pharoah dies
RIPThe esteemed US jazz saxophonist Pharaoh Sanders has died at home in Los Angeles, aged 81.
Born Ferrell Sanders in the San Francisco Bay Area, he struggled on the New York jazz scene until in 1964, John Coltrane asked him to sit in with his band. Pharoah took them to the edge of atonality. He cut his first record as leader that year and never looked back.
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