Like Ayler, his use of multiphonics and other extended techniques harked back to R&B “screamers” while simultaneously sounding as if they’d come from some place utterly elsewhere. “Trane was the father,” saxophonist Albert Ayler famously remarked, “Pharoah was the son, and I am the Holy Ghost.” Pharoah Sanders, who was eighty-one, first came to prominence as an integral part of Coltrane’s mid-’60s turn to free jazz on recordings like Ascensionand Meditations and in the performances of Coltrane’s final quintet. THE DAY AFTER what would have been John Coltrane’s ninety-sixth birthday, his most famous disciple left the planet. Pharoah Sanders playing at Carnegie Hall in New York, 1972.
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