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Pharoah Sanders, influential jazz saxophonist, dies at 81

By The Associated Press When Coltrane died, Sand-
(AP) — Pharoah Sand- ers continued playing for a
ers, the influential tenor time with his wife, Alice Col-
saxophonist revered in the trane. He also started lead-
jazz world for the spiritual- ing his own bands. His most
ity of hiPharoahs work, has commercially successful
died, his record label an- work came for Impulse
nounced. He was 81. Records, including the re-
Sanders, who launched his nowned “Karma” album.
career playing alongside After more than a decade
John Coltrane in the 1960s, of performing but not re-
died in Los Angeles early cording albums, Sanders re-
Saturday, said the tweet leased the much-admired
from Luaka Bop, the label “Promises” in 2021, with
that released his 2021 al- producer Floating Points
bum, “Promises.” It did not and the London Symphony
specify a cause. A phone Orchestra. Rolling Stone
message to Luaka Bop in called it “both startlingly
New York was not immedi- minimal and arrestingly gor-
ately returned. geous.” Known for his style
“We are devastated to of so-called spiritual jazz,
share that Pharoah Sand- Sanders, still actively play-
ers has passed away. He ing, confessed in the 2020
died peacefully surround- Jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders performs at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New New Yorker interview that
ed by loving family and Orleans, Friday, May 2, 2014. “a lot of (the) time I don’t
friends in Los Angeles earli- know what I want to play.
er this morning. Always and 1969. The combined track is school. But he soon moved there, earn five dollars, buy “So I just start playing, and
forever the most beautiful nearly 33 minutes long. to New York to join the city’s some food, buy some piz- try to make it right, and
human being, may he rest Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, avant-garde jazz scene. He za. I had no money at all.” make it join to some other
in peace,” said the label’s in 1940, Sanders began his hitchhiked his way across In 1965, he joined Coltrane’s kind of feeling in the mu-
message on Twitter, ac- early musical life by play- country, he told The New band. “I couldn’t figure out sic,” he said. “Like, I play
companied by a heart ing drums, then the clarinet Yorker magazine in 2020. why he wanted me to play one note, maybe that one
emoji. in church. In high school, Arriving in 1962, he could with him, because I didn’t note might mean love. And
Among the saxophonist’s he began renting out the hardly afford the New York feel like, at the time, that then another note might
best-known works was his school saxophone. After life. “I was trying to survive I was ready to play with mean something else.
two-part “The Creator Has high school he moved to some kind of way,” he told John Coltrane,” Sanders Keep on going like that un-
a Master Plan,” from the Oakland, California, where the magazine. “I used to said. “He always told me, til it develops into — maybe
“Karma” album released in he intended to attend art work a few jobs here and ‘Play.’ That’s what I did.” something beautiful.”q

Apple Music becomes new sponsor of Super Bowl halftime show

Pepsi, which sponsored that do not air in a viewer’s
the show for the past 10 home market. Amazon,
years. Terms were not an- Google and the Walt Dis-
nounced, but analysts had ney Co. are also compet-
expected the league to ing for the package, which
get at least $50 million per has been on DirecTV since
year for the rights. 1994. Over 120 million view-
“We are proud to wel- ers watched last February’s
come Apple Music to halftime show, which fea-
the NFL family as our new tured Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg,
partner for the iconic Su- Eminem, Mary J. Blige and
per Bowl Halftime Show,” Kendrick Lamar.q
Nana-Yaw Asamoah, the
NFL’s senior vice president ARUBA
of partner strategy, said in
a statement. “We couldn’t
think of a more appropri- CLEAN
ate partner for the world’s
most-watched musical
performance than Apple
Music, a service that en-
tertains, inspires, and mo-

Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Dre, Mary J. Blige, 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg, from left, perform during tivates millions of people
the halftime show during the NFL Super Bowl 56 football game between the Los Angeles Rams and around the world through
the Cincinnati Bengals on Feb. 13, 2022, in Inglewood, Calif. the intersection of music
and technology.”
Associated Press halftime show, the NFL will begin with this season’s Apple is also negotiating
NEW YORK (AP) — Apple announced early Friday Super Bowl on Feb. 12 in with the NFL for the rights IS MORE
Music will be the new morning. Glendale, Arizona. to the “NFL Sunday Ticket”
sponsor of the Super Bowl The multi-year sponsorship Apple Music replaces package of Sunday games DUSHI