“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.
here’s to this supreme jazz artist
Yes!
Maybe he’s joining Gabriel when he’s ready to welcome others…
Oh, May be!?!?!
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.
Oh, I too love the sax Kiki!