Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders , actually Ferell Sanders , (born October 13, 1940 in Little Rock , Arkansas ) is an American jazz musician, tenor saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. The stage name Pharoah gave him Sun Ra , with whom he performed in New York in the early 1960s.
Life
Sanders grew up in a musical family, his parents were music teachers . He first learned the clarinet and later switched to the tenor saxophone during high school and became familiar with jazz. His early role models were Harold Land , James Moody , Sonny Rollins , Charlie Parker and John Coltrane . As a teenager, he played on local Blues - gigs in Little Rock and so earned his pocket money. After high school, he moved to Oakland, California , where he studied music. During this time he played jazz and rhythm & blues in clubs in the San Francisco Bay Area and made a name for himself as a musician.
In the early 1960s he moved to New York, where he tried to gain a foothold as a professional musician. Until 1965 he could not achieve any success worth mentioning, so that he was forced to take various part-time jobs and even had to mortgage his instrument. During this time he played with some representatives of free jazz such as Sun Ra and Don Cherry . In 1963 he founded his own band with pianist John Hicks , bassist Wilbur Ware and drummer Billy Higgins . The group caught the attention of John Coltrane, so in 1964 Sanders was asked to perform with Coltrane's band. The joint appearances became more frequent until 1965, although Sanders was never officially considered a member of Coltrane's band. Sanders' and Coltrane's music from this period throws traditional jazz formulas and functional harmony overboard and instead focuses on tones such as those featured on Coltrane's 1965 album Ascension .
After Coltrane's death, Sanders mainly worked with his own ensembles, but also with Alice Coltrane . After a debut album for the ESP label with pianist Jane Getz , he released several albums for the Impulse label from 1966 to 1973 ! . His first publication on this label Tauhid selected Rolling Stone magazine in 2013 in its list The 100 best jazz albums at number 89. This was followed by a trip to Arista . From the late 1970s to 1987, his albums appeared on the small independent label Theresa. Since 1987 he released under the labels Evidence and Timeless, where Evidence Theresa took over and re-released his albums from this time. 1995 Message from Home , which was produced by Bill Laswell , appeared on the major label Verve ; Last year, Sanders could be heard alongside Mahmoud Ghania on The Seven Colors of Trance (Axiom).
Sanders is considered to be one of the founders of ethno-jazz , whereby he often included Islam and the spiritual traditions of Africa in his work and made them the subject of his music.
Discography
| title | Published | Label |
| Pharoah's First | 1964 | ESP |
| Tawhid | 1966 | Impulses! |
| Izipho Zam | 1969 | Strata-East |
| karma | 1969 | Impulses! |
| Jewels of Thought | 1969 | Impulses! |
| Summun, Bukmun, Umyun (Deaf, Dumb, Blind) | 1970 | Impulses! |
| Thembi | 1971 | Impulses! |
| Village of the Pharoahs | 1971 | Impulses! |
| Black Unity | 1971 | Impulses! |
| Live at the East | 1971 | Impulses! |
| Wisdom Through Music | 1972 | Impulses! |
| elevation | 1973 | Impulses! |
| Love in Us All | 1973 | ASD |
| Voyage to Uranus | 1974 | Capitol |
| Pharoah | 1977 | India Navigation |
| Love will find a way | 1977 | Arista |
| Beyond a dream | 1978 | Arista |
| Journey to the One | 1980 | Theresa (Evidence) |
| live | 1981 | Theresa (Evidence) |
| Rejoice | 1981 | Theresa (Evidence) |
| Heart is a Melody | 1982 | Theresa (Evidence) |
| Shukuru | 1985 | Theresa (Evidence) |
| Oh Lord, Let Me Do No Wrong | 1989 | Columbia |
| A Prayer Before Dawn | 1987 | Theresa (Evidence) |
| Africa | 1987 | Timeless |
| Moonchild | 1989 | Timeless |
| Welcome to Love (Live) | 1990 | Timeless |
| Crescent with Love | 1992 | Evidence |
| Naima | 1995 | Evidence |
| Message from Home | 1996 | verve |
| Save our Children | 1999 | verve |
| Spirits | 2000 | Meta |
| With a heartbeat | 2003 | Evolver |
| The Creator Has a Master Plan (Live) | 2003 | Venus |
| Live in Paris (1975) | 2020 | Transversal Disques |
Web links
- Pharaoh Sanders at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Jazz Albums . Retrieved November 16, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sanders, Pharoah |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sanders, Ferell |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Little Rock , Arkansas |