A legendary great man of the horn Pharoah Sanders is gone to join our jazz ancestors. He and his harmonic sounds - universal, and spiritual, will forever continue to mean so much in the great African jazz world tradition.
I last saw him playing, at Södra Teatern in Stockholm with Idris Muhammad on drums, it must have been in the late 80s or early 90s because our table was next to the stage and when Idris Muhammad came in I said " As-salamu alaykum!" to him and he looked back and grinned and what did we get in return if not some "Nigerian Music Highlife". One of the most Afrocentric among us, Pharoah Sanders, is always to be associated with "You've got to have freedom" not forgetting, "Our Roots ( began in Africa)"
May the Almighty be with him and his family
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