Let's talk about late 60s/early 70s freeish Afrocentric/spiritual/astral jazz ("fire music").

some serious judeo-christian themes set in around the 8hr mark (there's one track with a guy reciting the sh'ma?!), odd strain I had not really given much thought to before

there's a tracklisting up in the comments section....

I just picked up Max Roach's "We Insist!" which I really like.
I'm also looking for more Afrocentric revolutionary type jazz stuff.
I'm imagining Art Ensemble of Chicago with more vocals and chants

found the following by accident. looks like a free jazz doc is coming out soon:

http://firemusic.org/

this is also a pretty cool box on Spotify:

http://www.propermusic.com/cache/images/4/4/c/44c4de3e22c1f079508d75af1ac3962d.jpg

how bad are Horace Silver's early 70s "United States of Mind" albums

turbans count as spiritual jazz hats, right?

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facerecords.com%2Fshop%2Fimages%2F4%2F4394003_1.jpg&f=1

I didn't know where else to put this, but Billy Harper should be much more well known than he is. His mid-70s albums: Soran-Bushi B.H., In Europe, and of course Black Saint are lights out. He is a tremendous player and extemporaneous thinker. just phenomenal stuff...

all his 70s stuff is great. and he's on a ton of great albums. i wish all those live recordings with the max roach quartet were easier for people to hear. mostly came out on japanese vinyl pressings in the 70s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSpRH1mMYP0

thanks, I've never heard of them, let alone listened to them. Harper is just a special musician, I can't really put my finger on it.

i love the album on horo too. tons of stuff to dig into with billy harper!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MFsdt0ruLg

he was doing cool stuff with lee morgan too before lee's sad end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O4kb40-V_g

Yes! I love The Last Session, especially Angela and Capra Black. Lee had put together a great band at that time.

billy harper "capra black" just got reissued ...

guess I was looking at the turban rather than the words because I read the title of that Horace Silver album as THAT HAT FEELIN'

Am I correct in thinking that this is the main influence on the current Jazz explosion?

Which explosion is this again? If you mean Kamasi, then I'd say yeah totally.

Yeah, Kamasi and the West Coast stuff but also the stuff that's coming out of London rn.

Yup

was just listening to this japanese spiritual jazz comp — really amazing stuff in there: https://spiritualjazz.bandcamp.com/album/spiritual-jazz-8-japan-pt-1

Yeah, I've been eyeing that, and the other volumes of that series!

That Japanese Jazz comp on BBE has some amazing jams, many of them of the spiritual and/or modal jazz variety.

What stuff that's coming out of London, Daniel?

the Astrosonics/Black Classical Music linked upthread is probably the greatest comp ever (close call between that and New Wave Hits of the 80s imo)

Sons of Khmet etc.

xp

er Kemet

Yeah, all the acts from the <i>We Out Here</i> comp, ppl who play at Total Refreshment Centre, etc.

JUst got a cd called A Loud Minority Deep Spiritual Jazz from the Mainstream label. It looks really good but I got a faulty copy. Not seen a cd do this before it has stripes across teh silver. Looks like its new but somewhere the process has gone wrong.
I heard a bit of the 2 Frank Foster tracks on it but can't play the disc.
Anybody familiar with it? Is it worth tracking down another copy of?

Nyc group Elder Ones fucks with this vibe imo

I've seen notices that Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids are coming to Zebulon in L.A. and it's tempting. I always wonder how musicians who were active in the 70s will be today though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfWeqzjt444

dancing is kinda ridiculous in that clip but the music is great

for new london jazz check the comp “we out here”

oh daniel beat me to it

yeah what he said

look forward to hearing the Japanese compilation, was jammin to this one yesterday https://open.spotify.com/album/564B7NIpdF0je3rlh33cXC

That Loud Minority compilation looks pretty good:

https://www.discogs.com/Various-A-Loud-Minority-Deep-Spiritual-Jazz-From-Mainstream-Records-1970-1973/release/8205413

I have the three Buddy Terry albums on Mainstream; Awareness from 1971 is kinda Pharoah Sanders-ish spiritual jazz with a great band (Cecil Bridgewater on trumpet, Stanley Cowell on piano, Roland Prince on guitar, Victor Gaskin and Buster Williams on bass, Mickey Roker on drums, and Mtume on percussion), but another one, Lean On Him, is more like psychedelic gospel jazz. That one has Eddie Henderson on trumpet and Bernard Purdie on drums.

listened to the first two Pyramids albums last night. Pretty awesome.

I'm going to have to go through that archived tracklist carefully. This might be an ecstatic summer for me.

Got a replacement copy of teh loud Minority cd and it does sound pretty good.
Apparently there were a whole batch with the bad pressing, haven't come across it happening before so maybe if yo9u get one like that you get several.

But compilation is pretty groovy now i can actually listen to it.

was there a thread for spiritual hats? this one is great:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Bent_J%C3%A6dig_Photo.jpg/1005px-Bent_J%C3%A6dig_Photo.jpg

Enjoying this mix by Martyn of '70s Latin/spiritual jazz/fusion/African percussion etc that I randomly stumbled on via NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/martyn/episodes/martyn-31st-december-2018

Really liked the track by Open Sky - "Come To Supper Tonight, Rada". Thanks for the tip Jordan.

really feeling this today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFQ1H40of48
michael white - the land of spirit and light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAnoz4CN70w

the drummer / composer on that one, david lee, has a great record from the same years, called "evolution"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlJju4_3REI

similar vibe, i think it's george davis playing guitar on both

Yeah, I have that David Lee LP and it's wonderful. Nothing on it is quite as terrifying as 'In his Presence Searching' IMO but you made me want to listen to it again.

The beginning sounds like a Danny Brown sample waiting to happen (samples all over the place tbh)

recommended:

https://img.discogs.com/Nkcmz1xDDRrpojg3tHDSwYBWJVo=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-13626617-1557791896-6621.jpeg.jpg
Juju - Live At The East 1973 LP

https://www.strandedrecords.com/collections/now-again/products/juju-live-at-the-east-1973-lp

unrelated but this gets stuck in my head multiple times a week, just amazing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cObNLQGxrM
Joe Zawinul - A Soul of a Village, Pt. II

Black Unity Trio - Update #1
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Been eyeing that xpost George Lewis AACM history for a while: pricey, but well worth it, according to reviews I've seen.

One of the first jazz records I bought, still steaming and streaming:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj5hQHO5ANs

wiki sez:
All compositions by Pharaoh Sanders except as indicated

"Healing Song" (Joe Bonner, Pharoah Sanders) - 21:43
"Memories Of J. W. Coltrane" - 12:51
"Lumkili" - 8:33

Personnel

Pharoah Sanders - tenor saxophone
Marvin Peterson - trumpet
Carlos Garnett - flute, voice
Harold Vick - tenor saxophone, voice
Joe Bonner - piano, harmonium
Stanley Clarke, Cecil McBee - bass
Norman Connors, Billy Hart - drums
Lawrence Killian - congas, bailophon

def lots of two bass hits of sunshine

this was recommended to by by youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iij6Wr8uP-w
ronnie boykins s/t

released on ESP-disk in 1975, so it must have been one of the very last releases. marzette watts is credited as engineer, which i find interesting, but i can't see any evidence that he plays. have been familiar with RB for his work with sun ra, never knew about but have really fallen in love with this solo record. it's very MOODY

looks like it's coming at last ...

https://www.strandedrecords.com/collections/gotta-groove/products/black-unity-trio-al-fatihah-lp

Not sure if this belongs here but I picked up a reissue of Fitz Gore & The Talismen's Soundmagnificat (out of the blue, the cover looked nice) and wow, this is beautiful! Groovy & melancholy, totally mesmerizing.