Pharoah Sanders final Performance

Happy 80th to National Endowment for the Arts #JazzMaster Pharoah Sanders, one of the most compelling saxophonists of our time. Born on October 13, 1940 in Little Rock, Arkansas, he began his musical career accompanying church hymns on clarinet. His initial artistic accomplishments were in the visual arts, but in high school he began playing the tenor saxophone and he was introduced Sanders to jazz. During the late 1950s, Sanders would often sneak into African-American clubs in downtown Little R