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Music: Jazz/Blues Pharoah Sanders

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Pharoah Sanders is not the Kangol-clad, cable-knit sweater, electric-clarinet kind of jazz musician. The link between Coltrane's free-form experiments and the fusion trends of the '70s and '80s, he's done more to popularise and legitimate rule-bending dissonance than practically any other living artist (save, perhaps, Ornette Coleman). Sure, in recent years he's veered slightly towards martini-bar fodder, but beneath this slicker façade lurks the same dense, unhinged spectacle that once re-articulated the possibilities of the tenor sax. Don't worry too much about things getting dull; even numbers that start as tappity-tap tend to end with a kaboom.

– Nick Earhart

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