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3 unusual facts about Pharoah Sanders


Pharoah Sanders

Sanders worked with Laswell, Jah Wobble, and others on the albums Message From Home (1996) and Save Our Children (1998).

The same year, Sanders appeared on the Red Hot Organization's album, Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool, on the track "This is Madness" with Umar Bin Hassan and Abiodun Oyewole and the bonus track, "The Creator Has A Master Plan (Trip hop Remix)." The album was named "Album of the Year" by Time.

In 1994 he traveled to Morocco to record the Bill Laswell-produced album The Trance Of Seven Colors with Gnawa musician Mahmoud Guinia.


Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival

Jazz stars like Miles Davis, Count Basie, Sun Ra, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Yusef Lateef, Ornette Coleman, and Cecil Taylor have played the festival, as well as headliners like Ray Charles, Maceo Parker, Etta James, James Brown, Booker T. & the MG's, Taj Mahal, Dr. John, Bonnie Raitt, and Al Green.

Array mbira

The Array mbira is played by a number of notable musicians, including Sting, Ry Cooder, Emil Richards, Pharoah Sanders, Zakir Hussain (musician), Mileece, Shannon Terry, and Imogen Heap.

Clark Tracey

Tracey has played with visiting American musicians such as Scott Hamilton, Johnny Griffin, Red Rodney, Barney Kessell, John Hicks and Pharoah Sanders throughout his career.

Kenneth Nash

Kenneth Nash is an American jazz percussionist who has worked extensively as a sideman for musicians including Bobby Hutcherson, Herbie Hancock, Pharoah Sanders and Norman Connors.

Larry Newton

He oversaw what became a major multimarket, multi-label company, which, for its jazz subsidiary Impulse!, included Ray Charles, Oliver Nelson, Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, and John Coltrane.

Santi Debriano

He returned to New York City and has since worked with Don Pullen, Pharoah Sanders, Sonny Fortune, Billy Hart, Larry Coryell, Chucho Valdés, Hank Jones, Cecil Taylor, Randy Weston, Freddie Hubbard, Kirk Lightsey, and Attila Zoller.

Steve Novosel

Over the next thirty years, Novosel performed with, recorded with and/or toured with a veritable Who's Who of Jazz, including Cedar Walton, Milt Jackson, Bobby Hackett, Al Grey, Pharoah Sanders, Eddie Vinson, the Teddy Wilson Trio, the Red Norvo Trio, Stanley Cowell, Larry Willis, Jimmy Heath, Charlie Byrd, Elvin Jones, James Moody.

Symphony for Improvisers

Symphony for Improvisers is an album by Don Cherry featuring Gato Barbieri, Henry Grimes, Ed Blackwell, Karl Berger, Jean-François Jenny-Clark, and Pharoah Sanders recorded in 1966 and released on the Blue Note label.


see also

Tisziji Munoz

Visiting This Planet (1980's) Muñoz: synth guitar, keyboard, synth keyboard, shenai, congas, flutes & percussion, Paul Shaffer: piano & synth keyboard, John Hicks & Bernie Senensky & Michael Cochrane & Jon Weiss: piano, Pharoah Sanders: tenor saxophone, Dave Liebman: soprano saxophone, Bob Moses & Idris Muhammad & Adam Nussbaum & Guillermo Cantu: drums, Guillerme Franco: percussion, Art Davis & Dennis Irwin & Cecil McBee & Don Pate & Ratso Harris: bass

The River of Blood (1997) Muñoz: keyboard synths, shenai, Rashied Ali: drums & percussion, Pharoah Sanders & Dave Liebman: saxophone, John Hicks: piano, Don Pate: bass