“A lot of time I don’t know what I want to play. So I just start playing, and try to make it right, and make it join to some other kind of feeling in the music. Like, I play one note, maybe that one note might mean love. And then another note might mean something else. Keep on going like that until it develops into—maybe something beautiful.”
— Pharoah Sanders, “If You’re in the Song, Keep on Playing”: An Interview With Pharoah Sanders by Nathaniel Friedman. (The New Yorker, January 12, 2020). (via Alive on All Channels)
Pharoah Sanders, Whose Saxophone Was a Force of Nature, Dies at 81 (NY Times, Sept 24, 2022).
Don’t Miss Pharoah Sanders on Youtube here: Harvest Time.
Live & Learn 
here’s to this supreme jazz artist
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Yes!
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Maybe he’s joining Gabriel when he’s ready to welcome others…
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Oh, May be!?!?!
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never heard his name nor his music. now stuck in awe listening to your link on YT…. I LOVE the sax and tried my best to convince my then young son to play the sax, any sax….. not that I succeeded! what a discovery – thank you so much.
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Oh, I too love the sax Kiki!
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