He cut an unlikely candidate as the jovial song and dance man he eventually, if briefly, became.
Much of Pharoah Sanders's saxophone playing time was spent balefully gesticulating to the onstage sound engineer, asking for more piano in the mix – and from where I was sitting, he had a point. When it fell to Sanders's long-time pianist, William Henderson to solo, the piano's middle register was awol.
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