Pharoah Sanders, the legendary jazz saxophonist perhaps best known for his transcendent work with John Coltrane and for a solo run for Impulse Records beginning in the mid-1960s, and who helped define ...

Pharoah Sanders performs at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans in 1983. (Photo by David Redfern/Redferns via Getty Images) Pharoah Sanders, saxophonist and pioneer of the ...

*(CNN) — Jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders has died at the age of 81, according to an announcement Saturday by record label Luaka Bop and a statement from his representative. “We are devastated to ...

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with music historian Ayana Contreras about the death of musician Pharoah Sanders and the legacy he leaves behind. And now a moment to remember saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, ...

Pharoah Sanders, a singular and supremely influential voice in jazz composition and saxophone, passed away on Saturday at age 81. The news was broken on Saturday by Luaka Bop, the label that released ...

Autumn is here in the Western hemisphere, and with it the anniversary of the birth of John Coltrane, Sept. 23, a jazz holiday I call Coltrane's equinox. It's the season when Black improvised music ...

In March, around the same time that Norah Jones was scooping up an armload of Grammys for her polished pop-cum-jazz debut, Atlantic Monthly ran a lengthy obituary bemoaning the death of jazz. The once ...

Pharaoh Sanders in 1990 at the North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands. Sanders died Saturday at age 81. (Frans Schellekens/Redferns) Pharoah Sanders, the legendary jazz saxophonist perhaps best ...

The Grammy-winning saxophonist performed with John Coltrane in the 1960s before pioneering the spiritual jazz style Julia Moore is a TV writer-reporter at PEOPLE. A graduate of Northwestern University ...

He performed with John Coltrane in the 1960s before becoming a key figure in the spiritual jazz scene. By Mitchell Peters, Billboard Pharoah Sanders, the legendary tenor saxophonist who performed ...

Pharoah Sanders has died. He was 81. Sanders' record label, Luaka Bop, shared the news in a tweet Saturday morning. "We are devastated to share that Pharoah Sanders has passed away. He died peacefully ...