Jazz great Pharoah Sanders, who pushed the boundaries of saxophone playing, has died aged 81. His record label Luaka Bop announced the news, saying he had died "peacefully", surrounded by family ...
He cut an unlikely candidate as the jovial song and dance man he eventually, if briefly, became. Much of Pharoah Sanders's saxophone playing time was spent balefully gesticulating to the onstage ...
When you have worked with some of the most significant names over the past 50 years of jazz history and thus become a player of some significance yourself, you might be entitled to look back at your ...
Richard Davis, the prolific bassist who adorned jazz classics by Pharoah Sanders, Eric Dolphy, and Andrew Hill and laid the musical foundation for Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks, has died at the ...
Upper Egypt And Lower Egypt; The Creator Has A Master Plan; Astral Travelling; Spiritual Blessing. Pharoah Sanders: tenor saxophone (1,2), soprano saxophone (3,4 ...
Simon Gogolack is one of four defendants charged with witness tampering and retaliation, among other charges, in the death of Crystal Quinn, a federal witness in the Pharaoh's strip club drug- and ...
Mark Coles looks at the life and career of jazz icon Pharoah Sanders following the release of his first new album in nearly 20 years. Show more Pharoah Sanders’s 2021 album Promises has been ...
Rob Crocker, a mainstay for more than five decades on radio stations, died on March 7 at his apartment in Manhattan. He was ...
Alice Coltrane was once dismissively referred to as “the Yoko Ono of jazz”, having gained fame by marrying her own iconic ...
Books & the Arts / In the years after her husband John’s death, the harpist discovered a sound all her own, a jazz rooted in ...
This newly issued 1971 set helpfully complicates the iconic harpist and pianist’s legacy, revealing her as not just a ...