In the years after Coltrane’s death, however, Sanders explored other, somewhat gentler and perhaps more cerebral avenues — without, it should be added, sacrificing any of the intensity that defined ...
A new Johnny Cash song got NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich thinking about music released after a beloved artist dies. Check ...
From the late '60s until his death in 2008, Christian rock pioneer Larry Norman ... Isaiah Collier's tone carves a spiritual, serrated shape, not unlike early '70s Pharoah Sanders. His hard-hitting ...
By 1967 he’d discovered the avant-garde minimalism of John Cage and outsider musician Harry Partch, in whose work he schooled his fellow Stooges, alongside the free jazz of Pharoah Sanders and ...
Will Heath/NBC / NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images On the Feb. 20, 2021, episode of "SNL," Pete Davidson played New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (in the midst of his COVID-19 nursing home death count ...
After his death, in 1967, his harp- and organ-playing ... Afro-centric mindset – and Pharoah Sanders, who helped to sow the seeds for what became known as spiritual jazz. In terms of free ...
Alto and soprano saxophonist Kenny Garrett is an explorer. He’s constantly seeking new situations, new sources of inspiration ...
And Coltrane wasn't, not ever. Here she was with ... This little beauty, all sixteen minutes of it, is the opening track of Pharoah Sanders' first own-name masterpiece, Tauhid (Impulse!), recorded in ...
Sanders reiterated his familiar call on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday to hold Netanyahu responsible for Israel’s actions in Gaza, pointing to the staggering death toll and the ...