Pharoah Sanders declared his true spirituality in a 1971 interview with Jane Welch, and talked further on his devotion to Freedom in music creation. Pharoah Sanders "I Play for the Creator" ON AN EARLY SPRING afternoon in New York City Pharoah Sanders sat under the picture he had painted of his wife Thembi and talked seriously about many things. He had recently moved into the upper West Side town house—a tastefully re- converted brownstone. Surrounded by his paintings, his records and his instruments from all over the world, he brooded about his temporary state of inactivity. He has one of the hottest new combos around but happened to have had this particular week off. He said that he felt better when he worked more—he gets inspiration from the changing audiences. “Eyen when I was working with John (Coltrane) I had to keep doing some- thing when he wasn’t working, so I had my combo even then. Sonny Sharrock, Dave Burrell, Henry Grimes, Roger Blank and
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