# Damn ! Another fine jazz legend leaves the stage.. (Pharoah Sanders) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death, music\ **Created:** [September 24, 2022, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-fine-jazz-legend-leaves-the-stage-pharoah-sanders/972153 "2022-09-24T17:45:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-fine-jazz-legend-leaves-the-stage-pharoah-sanders/972153/1 "2022-09-24T17:45:42Z")
Tenor sax player Pharoah Sanders - John Coltrane collaborator - has died aged 81. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/lhDcb9YaliM/hqdefault.jpg "Pharoah Sanders Quartet - The Creator Has a Master Plan") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhDcb9YaliM) Saw him at the Jazz Cafe in Camden town, fabulous night out !! ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-fine-jazz-legend-leaves-the-stage-pharoah-sanders/972153/2 "2022-09-24T17:47:16Z")
Oh no! That just leaves……Sonny Rollins. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-fine-jazz-legend-leaves-the-stage-pharoah-sanders/972153/3 "2022-09-24T17:56:48Z")
And Charles Lloyd ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-fine-jazz-legend-leaves-the-stage-pharoah-sanders/972153/4 "2022-09-24T18:06:42Z")
It’s definitely been a tough month for the jazz world (Pharoah, Ramsey Lewis, and Joey DeFrancesco). ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-fine-jazz-legend-leaves-the-stage-pharoah-sanders/972153/5 "2022-09-24T22:07:40Z")
Steve Swallow and Carla Bley are still hangin’ in there. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-fine-jazz-legend-leaves-the-stage-pharoah-sanders/972153/6 "2022-09-24T22:40:17Z")
Also lost British sax player Barbara Thompson recently. ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-fine-jazz-legend-leaves-the-stage-pharoah-sanders/972153/7 "2022-09-24T23:21:56Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > Saw him at the Jazz Cafe in Camden town, fabulous night out !! Me too. I also saw him at Ronnie Scotts, The Jazz Showcase in Chicago and The Blue Note in New York. Phenomenal performances every time. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-fine-jazz-legend-leaves-the-stage-pharoah-sanders/972153/8 "2022-09-25T19:26:32Z")
The records he made in the late 60s with Leon Thomas singing were special to me. You didn’t have to be spiritually inclined to get a dose of holy sincerity off them, it introduced you to different ways of seeing the world. WBCN played this often, in spite of it being 15 minutes long. Play it, and an African shaman will appear in your living room! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/oDLVIo8V8DM/maxresdefault.jpg "Pharoah Sanders - Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDLVIo8V8DM) ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-fine-jazz-legend-leaves-the-stage-pharoah-sanders/972153/9 "2022-09-26T21:37:38Z")
Oh yes. One of my (& my GF’s) favourites… Yodelicious.