Spiritual Jazz Essentials

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Updated 2 Weeks Ago

Editors’ Notes In the mid-'60s, a small group of jazz musicians reacted to sociopolitical turbulence with a yearning for transcendence, embracing various strains of spirituality. John Coltrane's “A Love Supreme” offered a musical salute to the divine, while Albert Ayler had a rugged take on gospel (“Love Cry”). Others turned their focus abroad, with pianist Randy Weston embracing the trance grooves of Morocco's Gnawan people (“Marrakech Blues”) and Alice Coltrane adapting Indian raga (“Journey into Satchidananda”). The movement faded in the ‘70s, but four decades later L.A.'s Kamasi Washington brought it back in response to a consumerist cultural landscape.
John Coltrane
A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters (Super Deluxe Edition)
7:42
 
Byron Morris and Unity
Virbrations in Time
11:37
 
Pharoah Sanders
Thembi
5:50
 
Herbie Hancock
Mwandishi
10:23
 
Don Cherry
Don Cherry
7:06
 
Joe McPhee
Trinity
10:50
 
Randy Weston
The Spirits of Our Ancestors
17:16
 
Alice Coltrane
Journey in Satchidananda
6:36
 
Joe Henderson, Alice Coltrane
The Elements
11:07
 
Roland Kirk
Prepare Thyself to Deal With a Miracle
5:48
 
Horace Tapscott
Hassan's Walk
9:24
 
Philip Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble
The Zulu 45s Collection
3:34
 
Gary Bartz
Ju Ju Man / Love Song (feat. Curtis Robertson, Howard King, Charles Mims, George Cables & Carl McDaniels)
9:12
 
Nicole Mitchell
Maroon Cloud
6:09
 
Hannibal and the Sunrise Orchestra
Nicola Conte: Cosmic Forest (The Spiritual Sounds of MPS)
7:35
 
McCoy Tyner
Enlightenment
10:02
 
Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes
Astral Traveling
5:35
 
Johnny Dyani
Witchdoctor's Son
10:04
 
Batsumi
Batsumi
11:25
 
Archie Shepp
The Cry of My People
5:43
 
Max Roach
Members Don't Get Weary
6:13
 
Kamasi Washington
The Epic
12:15
 
Shabaka and the Ancestors
Brownswood 10
6:38
 
Phil Ranelin
Soul Jazz Records Presents: Soul of a Nation: Afro-Centric Visions in the Age of Black Power - Underground Jazz, Street Funk & the Roots of Rap 1968-79
3:50
 
Albert Heath
Kwanza (The First) [feat. Percy Heath, Jimmy Heath, Curtis Fuller, Ted Dunbar & Kenny Barron]
4:01
 
Dizzy Reece
Nirvana
6:41
 
Alice Coltrane, John Coltrane
Infinity
8:32
 
Andrew Hill
Lift Every Voice (Bonus Track Version)
8:06
 
Albert Ayler
The Last Album
8:57
 
David S. Ware
BalladWare
8:29
 
Sun Ra and His Arkestra
Singles: The Definitive 45s Collection, Vol. 1: 1952-1961
3:39
 
The Art Ensemble of Chicago
Chi Congo - EP
11:40
 
The Clifford Thornton New Art Ensemble
Freedom and Unity
8:28
 
Human Arts Ensemble
Under the Sun
21:39
 
Andy Bey
Experience and Judgment
3:18
 
Pharoah Sanders
Karma
32:47
 
Sounds of Liberation
Sounds of Liberation
19:19
 
Joe Chambers
The Almorivid
8:26
 
Alice Coltrane
Huntington Ashram Monastery
5:31
 
Mandingo Griot Society
Soul Jazz Records Presents: Soul of a Nation: Afro-Centric Visions in the Age of Black Power - Underground Jazz, Street Funk & the Roots of Rap 1968-79
3:56
 
Pharoah Sanders
Tauhid
16:15
 
Don Cherry, Okay Temiz, Tage Siven, Tommy Goldman, Maffy Falay, Tommy Koverhult
Organic Music Society
6:33
 
Yusef Lateef
Jazz Moods
10:37
 
Creative Arts Ensemble
One Step Out
8:46
 
Wayne Shorter
Moto Grosso Feio
12:28
 
Maurice McIntyre
Spiritual Jazz 7: Islam
2:55
 
Idris Ackamoor, The Pyramids
We Be All Africans
5:43
 
Lloyd Miller
Oriental Jazz
4:12
 
Carlos Garnett
Anthology - Mystery of Ages
7:40
 
Albert Ayler
Love Cry
3:55
 
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