Where were you on Pharoah Sanders Day?

"Where were you on Pharoah Sanders Day?" Pharoah featured in the annual music issue of the Arkansas Times of 2014, celebrating his legacy and visiting his childhood home to inaugurate Pharoah Sanders Day in Little Rock, officially March 8.

Sanders’ lifelong introversion, his deeply felt inner solitude, is fundamental. Going by the accounts of those who have known him, it is one of his most notable qualities: He hardly speaks. On the other hand, all he ever did was make noise. His parents, by all accounts musical themselves, didn’t approve of music as a career route, and so as a boy, living in a small house on Hazel Street across the street from a drive-in movie theater, Sanders would stand outside on the porch and practice his scales for hours. Out in public, he was rarely seen without a neck strap.