Spiritual jazz

Spiritual jazz
Spiritual jazz
	Contemporary spiritual jazz musician Kamasi Washington performing
Stylistic origins	Jazz; post-bop; modal jazz; free jazz; folk; experimental;
Cultural origins	Civil rights movement; transcendence; spirituality;
Other topics
	Free jazz; avant-garde jazz; free improvisation;

Spiritual jazz (or astral jazz) is a sub-genre of jazz that originated in the United States during the 1960s. The genre is hard to characterize musically but draws from free, avant-garde and modal jazz and thematically focuses on transcendence and spirituality. John Coltrane's 1965 album A Love Supreme is considered landmark in the genre.

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