In March, around the same time that Norah Jones was scooping up an armload of Grammys for her polished pop-cum-jazz debut, Atlantic Monthly ran a lengthy obituary bemoaning the death of jazz. The once ...

Pharoah Sanders’ 1977 release Izipho Zam (My Gifts) on the Strata-East label is a fascinating listen. Widely regarded as a landmark in the evolution of free jazz, it continues to grow on me—and that, ...

The saxophonist Pharoah Sanders was often described as an enigma of jazz, once famously characterized as "a mad wind screeching through the root-cellars of Hell." That "mad wind" is absent on Love Is ...

If you could use a bit of a boost today, we’d like to recommend this just uploaded live recording of jazz great Pharoah Sanders. The recording appears to be a French radio broadcast from November 17, ...