BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.10.5// X-WR-CALNAME:www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco X-WR-CALDESC:www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco X-WR-TIMEZONE:US/Pacific BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20130620T141118CEST-3342Dvv7aW@www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco DTSTAMP:20130620T120618Z DESCRIPTION:PHAROAH SANDERS\, Tenor Saxophone\nWILLIAM HENDERSON\, \; P iano\, Keyboard\nNAT REEVES\, \; Bass\nJOE FARNSWORTH\, Drums\n\nPharo ah Sanders possesses one of the most distinctive tenor saxophone sounds in jazz. Harmonically rich and heavy with overtones\, Sanders' sound can be as raw and abrasive as it is possible for a saxophonist to produce\, and a lthough he made his name with expressionistic\, nearly anarchic free jazz in John Coltrane's late ensembles of the mid-'60s\, Sanders' later music i s guided by more graceful concerns.\nPharoah Sanders (his given name\, Fer rell Sanders) formed his first group in 1963\, with pianist John Hicks (wi th whom he would continue to play off-and-on into the '90s)\, bassist Wilb ur Ware\, and drummer Billy Higgins. His first record as a leader was in 1 964 for the ESP label. The group played an engagement at New York's Villag e Gate\, where John Coltrane heard him and by 1965\, Sanders was playing r egularly with the Coltrane group. Strength was a necessity in that band\, and as Coltrane realized\, Sanders had it in abundance.\nAfter John Coltra ne's death in 1967\, Sanders worked briefly with his widow\, Alice Coltran e\, and then primarily as a leader of his own ensembles. From 1966-1971\, Sanders released several albums on Impulse\, including Tauhid (1966)\, Kar ma (1969)\, Black Unity (1971)\, and Thembi (1971). In the mid-'70s\, Sand ers recorded his most commercial effort\, Love Will Find a Way (Arista\, 1 977)\; it turned out to be a brief detour. From the late '70s until 1987\, he recorded for the small independent label Theresa. From 1987\, Sanders recorded for the Evidence and Timeless labels. The former bought Theresa r ecords in 1991 and subsequently re-released Sanders' output for that compa ny. In 1995\, Sanders made his first major-label album in many years\, Mes sage From Home (produced by Bill Laswell for Verve). The two followed that one up with Save Our Children (Polygram/1999). Sanders released Spirits ( Meta/2000)\, a multi-ethnic live suite with Hamid Drake and Adam Rudolph. In the decades after his first recordings with Coltrane\, Sanders develope d the capability of playing convincingly in a variety of contexts\, from f ree to mainstream\, and as a mature artist he has discovered a hard-edged lyricism that has served him well. DTSTART:20130404T200000 DTEND:20130406T220000 DURATION:PT3H LOCATION:San Francisco SUMMARY:PHAROAH SANDERS END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR