Spiritual jazz
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Spiritual jazz is a sub-genre of jazz that originated in the United States during the 1960s. The genre is hard to characterize musically but draws from free, avant-garde and modal jazz and thematicall
Contemporary spiritual jazz musician Kamasi Washington performing
Pharoah Sanders in 1981.
Don Cherry in 1989
Pharoah Sanders
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Pharoah Sanders was an American jazz saxophonist. Known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound", Sanders played a prominent
Spiritual jazz
…John Coltrane". A Love Supreme and other works by John Coltrane inspired other jazz musicians to create music searching for transcendence. For example, Pharoah Sanders and Don Cherry were considered to have taken inspiration from Coltrane's spiritual works. After John Coltrane's death in 1967, his wife Alice Coltrane…
Sanders in 2006
Sanders performing at The Jazz Cafe in London, England, 2008
Sanders with William Henderson in 2008