New York (AFP) – Pharoah Sanders, one of the most wildly inventive figures in jazz who wrestled his saxophone to its limits and felt equally at home in Indian and African music, died Saturday. He was 81. His record label, Luaka Bop, said he died peacefully around friends and family in Los Angeles. “Always and forever the most beautiful human being, may he rest in peace,” a label statement said. Taking the open-mindedness of the free jazz movement to new heights, Sanders would virtually attack his saxophone by heavily overblowing on the mouthpiece — of which he collected hundreds — as well as…