Home / Music / Pharoah Sanders pairs meditative forms with intense improvisation in spiritual jazzMusic linernotes album music pharoah-sandersPharoah Sanders pairs meditative forms with intense improvisation in spiritual jazzPharoah Sanders is a leading figure in spiritual jazz and free jazz, blending meditative, cyclical forms with intense improvisation. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesPharoah Sanders' career took off playing with John ColtranePharoah Sanders' solo recording career started on Impulse! RecordsSanders opened The Creator Has a Master Plan the same way Coltrane opened A Love SupremePharoah Sanders pushed the tenor saxophone into new sonic territory with overtone-rich extended techniques and spiritual intensityPharoah Sanders played soprano sax on EnlightenmentExploreOneness of Juju was the second incarnation of James Plunky Branch's Afrocentric jazz groupOtis Blue was Otis Redding's first album to top the R&B chart(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay became Otis Redding's only number-one, recorded three days before his deathMs. Jackson was OutKast's first number-one singlePaul Butterfield brought Chicago blues to the 1960s rock audiencePrevious Pharoah Sanders recorded spiritual jazz for Impulse! RecordsNext Pharoah Sanders collaborated with Alice Coltrane and Don Cherry after Coltrane's death