The Epic, a new 3-disk set by saxophonist Kamasi Washington has just been released on Brainfeeder Records. It’s of the same Spiritual Jazz musical DNA as John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, Meditations, ...

An experimental musician I know used to brand himself as a “Christian noise artist”. Whenever we would tell noise dudes about upcoming shows in the era, they’d always sit kind of po-faced until the ...

Have you ever heard of the musical approach called modal?Unlike bebop, where chords change rapidly, it is a method of ...

The ninth volume in Jazzman's Spiritual Jazz series is a 2 x CD (and 2 x double LP) compilation from the Blue Note catalogue. Just over half the material was recorded between 1964 and 1966, the final ...

Add Us On i Make JazzTimes a preferred source and Google will show you more of our stories in Top Stories. Spiritual jazz is music that tries to invoke ecstatic, higher states of consciousness, ...

Jazzman Records got its start as a mail-order business founded by London, UK-based “Jazzman Gerald” Short, who as a young jazz aficionado scoured the UK and the US on a shoestring budget collecting ...

I recently stumbled across “Spiritual Jazz Essentials” on Apple Music and it took me back to the 10 years I taught spiritual psychology workshops at the Esalen Institute. During yoga, I would play ...

At times, tribute performances can feel stuffy — repeating the musical compositions from a particular artist without the flourishes, improvisations or specific tonal vernacular that makes each artist ...

Rev. Andrew Kimble ‘19 directs Online Lifelong Learning at Boston University School of Theology while co-leading alumni engagement and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. An ordained ...

Tenor saxophonist Kamasi Washington has been getting a lot of attention for his Wagnerian-sized 3 cd set, The Epic. He is drawing a different audience among young people who maybe weren’t even that ...