“We are devastated to share that Pharoah Sanders has passed away,” read a statement from Sanders’ label Luaka Bop. “He died peacefully surrounded by loving family and friends in Los Angeles earlier this morning.
Always and forever the most beautiful human being, may he rest in peace.”Born Farrell Sanders in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1940, Sanders got his start with the saxophone by renting an old one from his high school.
After studying music at Oakland College, the musician got his name after he moved to New York and joined the band of the experimental jazz musician Sun Ra in 1964.
A year later, Sanders began performing on albums with the jazz legend John Coltrane, playing on a dozen of Coltrane’s albums between 1965 and the artist’s death in 1967.
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