Spiritual Jazz

One of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Alice Coltrane’s fourth Impulse! album finds her on piano and harp in the company of saxophonist Pharoah Sanders.

Progressive jazz from the 1970s: music which has influenced Kamasi Washington and the Brainfeeder crew.

Ptah, the El Daoud, recorded and released in 1970, is the third solo album by Alice Coltrane. The album was recorded in the basement of her house in Dix Hills on Long Island, New York. This was Coltrane's first album with horns. Sanders is recorded on the right channel and Joe Henderson on the left channel throughout.

We can safely say that our Spiritual Jazz series would not exist without the inspiration and leadership of the spiritual messiah that is John Coltrane. It can only be right and proper that we dedicate a whole album to his legacy and lasting influence. 

Personnel: Archie Shepp (tenor and soprano saxophone), Horace Parlan (piano)

Alice Coltrane is the undeniable godmother of spiritual jazz and an acknowledged influence on everyone from Flying Lotus and Kamasi Washington to Solange and Radiohead

In the late 1960s, the American trumpet player and free jazz pioneer Don Cherry (1936–1995) and the Swedish visual artist and designer Moki Cherry (1943–2009) began a collaboration that imagined an alternative space for creative music.

U.S. saxophonist Gary Bartz recorded his two volumes of Harlem Bush Music in the winter of 1970-71.