How many Pharoah Sanders releases are on Riffiter?

42 releases are catalogued, spanning 1969 to 2023.

What genre is Pharoah Sanders?

Pharoah Sanders is catalogued under Jazz.

What is the most recent Pharoah Sanders release on Riffiter?

Great Moments with Pharoah Sanders, released in 2023.

Artist

Pharoah Sanders

Pharoah Sanders is a jazz artist from Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. 42 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.

Jazz · Little Rock, Arkansas, USA · Best jazz albums

42
Releases: 1969–2023
Active years

Discography

40

Singles & EPs

2

Upcoming shows

About

Pharoah Sanders (born October 13, 1940) is a Grammy Award-winning American jazz saxophonist. Saxophonist Ornette Coleman once described him as "probably the best tenor player in the world." Emerging from John Coltrane's groups of the mid-1960s Sanders is known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound." Sanders is an important figure in the development of free jazz; Albert Ayler famously said: "Trane was the Father, Pharoah was the Son, I am the Holy Ghost." Born Farrell Sanders in Little Rock, Arkansas, he began his professional career playing tenor saxophone in Oakland, California. He moved to New York City in 1961 after playing with rhythm and blues bands. He received his nickname "Pharoah" from bandleader Sun Ra, with whom he was performing. After moving to New York, Sanders had been destitute: "[H]e was often living on the streets, under stairs, where ever he could find to stay, his clothes in tatters. Sun Ra gave him a place to stay, bought him a new pair of green pants with yellow stripes (which Sanders hated but had to have), encouraged him to use the name 'Pharoah', and gradually worked him into the …

Pharoah Sanders in brief

How many Pharoah Sanders releases are on Riffiter?: 42 releases are catalogued, spanning 1969 to 2023.
What genre is Pharoah Sanders?: Pharoah Sanders is catalogued under Jazz.
What is the most recent Pharoah Sanders release on Riffiter?: Great Moments with Pharoah Sanders, released in 2023.