On this day in 1940 Farrell Sanders was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. Nicknamed "Pharaoh" by Sun Ra, whom he played with early on in New York City, Pharaoh came into prominence by playing with John Coltrane on such great records as Kulu Se Mama, Om, and Live at the Village Vanguard Again! Ornette Coleman described Pharaoh Sanders as "the best tenor player in the world." His blurred "sheets of sound", overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques were signature sounds in the burgeoning free jazz scene of the 1960's. Albert Ayler famously proclaimed once "Trane was the Father, Pharoah was the Son, I am the Holy Ghost".
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