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Spiritual Jazz
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Spiritual jazz emerged in the mid-to-late 1960s as an extension of John Coltrane's late modal and free playing, which fused improvisation with explicitly religious or meditative intent, and was carried forward after his 1967 death by his widow, harpist and pianist Alice Coltrane, and saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. It is characterized by modal, often droning harmonic frameworks, incantatory or chant-like vocal and instrumental textures, and the incorporation of non-Western instruments such as the harp, tambura, and African and Indian percussion. John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, and Pharoah Sanders remain its defining figures.
Abate Berihun Abraham Burton Albert Ayler ✦ 1936–1970 Albert Beger Albert Piamenta Alice Coltrane ✦ 1937–2007 Archie Shepp Asaf Shchori Billy Harper Charles Gayle ✦ 1939–2023 Dan Gottfried Dimitri Grechi Espinoza Ehran Elisha Eyal Talmudi Frank Wright ✦ 1935–1990 Gary Bartz George Otsuka ✦ 1937–2020 Godwin Louis Gregory Tardy Ilan Salem Immanuel Wilkins Joel Ross John Coltrane ✦ 1926–1967 Jonathan Greenstein Makoto Terashita María Grand Marsha Frazier Masabumi Kikuchi ✦ 1939–2015 Masato Nakamura Menachem Zibziner Michael King Milton Michaeli Myron Walden Nicola Conte Nitzan Birnbaum Norman Connors Oded Tzur Pharoah Sanders ✦ 1940–2022 Prima Materia Rejoicer Sefi Zisling Shay Hazan Sun Ra ✦ 1914–1993 Takeo Moriyama Umberto Fiorentino Underground Spiritual Game Yonatan Tagger Yosef Gutman Levitt
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