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    'The best tenor player in the world': Pharoah Sanders at 80

    by Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times Oct 14, 2020 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - These days, the great tenor saxophonist and composer Pharoah Sanders shuffles when he walks, the result of a broken hip last year that's on the mend. The free-jazz titan moved slowly across the dance floor on a recent weekday at the music venue Zebulon, his friend and longtime saxophone peer Azar Lawrence by his side as they headed toward the stage to play a set at the Frogtown club.

    Onstage, drummer Tony Austin and keyboardist John Beasley were sound-checking, in the process scoring Sanders' push toward the stage's staircase with an improvised breakbeat.

    The occasion was Sanders' 80th birthday, which was Tuesday. The saxophonist dislikes the annual marker

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