Music

Pharoah Sanders, Spiritual Jazz Legend, Has Passed Away At 81

R.I.P.

A member of John Coltrane's groups of the mid-1960s, Sanders became iconic in America’s jazz scene.

Kate Briquelet
Kate Briquelet 

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Kate Briquelet

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