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Pharoah Sanders/Hamid Drake/Adam Rudolph: Spirits

by Mark Corroto
July 1, 2000

I consider Saxophonist Pharoah Sanders to be the heir to John Coltrane’s earthly mission. As a young man he was taken under Coltrane’s wing, recording the spiritually turbulent music Coltrane made on Meditations, Live In Seattle, and Live At The Village Vanguard. Sanders searing tone was a piece of the puzzle John Coltrane worked on at the end of his short life. After Coltrane’s death, Sanders continued on a spiritual quest in his music, often with the help of John’s ...