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Pharoah Sanders (born October 13, 1940) is an American saxophonist.

Sanders was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, under the name Farrell Sanders. He began his professional career playing tenor saxophone in Oakland, California.

Sanders moved to New York City in 1962. He received his nickname “Pharoah” from Sun Ra, with whom Sanders performed. He came to prominence playing with John Coltrane’s band starting in 1965, as Coltrane began experimenting with the music which would soon become known as .

Although he developed a slightly different style from Coltrane, Sanders was strongly influenced by their collaboration together. Sanders was also greatly influenced by Coltrane’s earlier works (in which Sanders did not collaborate), particularly A Love Supreme. Spiritual elements such as the chanting in A Love Supreme would later show up in many of Sanders’ own works. Sanders would also go on to produce much , being influenced by his free jazz collaborations with Coltrane, particularly Coltrane’s most notable free jazz work, Ascension (recorded in June 1965), as well as their dual-tenor recording Meditations (recorded in November 1965).

In 1968 he participated in Mike Mantler & Carla Bley’s JCOA: Jazz Composer’s Orchestra Association album “Communications” featuring Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Larry Coryell and Gato Barbieri. This solo has been referenced by John Zorn and others, as the most intense and inspiring free tenor solo ever put to tape.

In the , Sanders pursued his own recordings and continued to work with the likes of Alice Coltrane on her “Journey In Satchidananda” album.
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