The saxophonist Pharoah Sanders was often described as an enigma of jazz, once famously characterized as "a mad wind screeching through the root-cellars of Hell." That "mad wind" is absent on Love Is ...

Pharoah Sanders started his opening set Wednesday night with a prayer expressed in saxophonic form. You could hear the power of this opening invocation as it filled the Iridium, resonated up the ...

Since breaking through as an anointed acolyte of John Coltrane in the 1960s, and even more since his own outflow of spiritually charged albums in the '70s, tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders has ...

Wendall Harrison’s spiritual jazz tribute lifts Concert of Colors sky-high. Detroit reed master Wendall Harrison channels mentor Pharoah Sanders in a transcendent Concert of Colors set filled with ...