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US saxophonist who started his career with Sun Ra and John Coltrane and went on to find a more spiritual voice

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The spiritual jazz legend was a man of few words – but his expansive, effusive playing said everything

LOS ANGELES — Pharoah Sanders, the legendary jazz saxophonist perhaps best known for his transcendent work with John Coltrane and for a solo run for Impulse Records beginning in the mid-1960s, and who helped define the so-called spiritual jazz movement, has died. He was 81.