Yeah it’s a totally beautiful album. I enjoy this as much as “Ascension” and every single stop and transmogrification he made along the way. Dude was never less than inspiring and otherworldly.
There’s so much classic jazz it’s a deep dark wormhole with no end - well actually it ends at the start of the 80s for me - obviously with a few exceptions. I did stumble across Kaleiido though recently, two Danish ladies who dial down the intensity, turn up the atmosphere & unhurriedly lead their ensemble with guitar, sax & sacred song into laid-back spiritual lands. Well worth checking out:
I don’t have that many jazz records so thank you all for the education.
A few favourites of mine:
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Jazz is by far my favorite music, so again, way too many to mention. Depends a lot on what I’m in the mood for, really. I play drums and lately I’ve been messing around with recording some “free” music with probability arpeggiators on Ableton Live, and so to get into that mood I’ve been listening a lot to guitar player Joe Morris - especially his duet album with drummer Luther Gray. Luther’s a friend of mine, one of the best drummers ever IMO, but not particularly well known outside the Boston scene. Here’s some of that:
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Here’s something cool, too. Gary Peacock was my favorite bass player of all time, he sadly died last year, but the man left a huge ouvre as leader and sideman. This is one of his more obscure sides, recorded in Japan with 3 other geniuses, particularly Masabumi Kikuchi who is massively underrated - one of the greatest piano players ever.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-342_6vO8uY
Since I’m here, I’ll also mention Jack Bruce’s excellent album “Things We Like”, recorded in 1968 as a bit of a ‘break’ when the whole Cream thing was starting to get really ugly. Fortunately Jack was a killer double bass player too, and his merry band of Jazz nut friends including John McLaughlin just before he was Mahavishnu (they were both to be involved with Tony Williams’ Lifetime a few years later), and brit more-jazz-than-rock jazz rock mainstays Dick Heckstall Smith on horns and Jon Hiseman on drums, who were just about to form Colosseum. Seriously cool music.
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I love the Coltrane ballads album, so easygoing yet slightly dark and very emotive. Honestly, I find Coltrane challenging to get into, because so much of his (especially later) records are sooooo spiritually explorative and intense, you almost can’t listen to them unless you’re ready to have your soul blown apart.
That being said, I think First Meditations and Stellar Regions are amazing records that strike a fine balance between accessible jazz structures and blowing cosmic fire into your inner-being.
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That Idris Muhammad album is fucking fire. Pretty cool that he went on to record this jazz-disco classic right after. Prime example of direct jazz crossover into dance:
I’ve been listening to Eddie Henderson a lot recently. So underrated. I think this is what post-Bitches Brew Miles Davis would have sounded like in an alternate universe, if his vibe was more spacey-groovy and less frenetic chaos. Plus the dual-drummers in different channels of the mix are so tight.
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I spent close to two hours chest deep in the Pacific Ocean with my phone above my head and a pair of grados on listening to my rips of Interstellar Space, Ascension, and A Love Supreme as the waves beat the crap out of me and I struggled to not choke to death on sea water. About five minutes after A Love Supreme finished, a pod of dolphins came over and danced around me. I swear on everything I love that this is true and actually have both photographic evidence and a witness. A lot of the later albums aren’t easy listening whatsoever but under the right conditions they can go with you to heights/places that little other music can.
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post of the day! 
Absolutely. He played drums on this around the same time too:
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I picked up the original Japanese pressing of this in a £5 crate in my local record store. It was one of those digging moments.
Forgetting the price the recording at Pit Inn on Christmas Eve is ridiculously good and sounds top at home. I love this recording. You can almost see the atmosphere as you hear it.
A great spiritual one from Ahmad Jamal here, this has Abd Al Malik providing French spoken word over a great recording. This was nominated for a Grammy but didn’t make it, a great modern recording with some great players -
I like the intensity and his music is probably the most out there in my record collection for intensity ! My partner thinks Jazz is an audio anxiety attack, she just doesn’t get it. I’d rather listen to John Coltrane over most music, it all makes sense even though I couldn’t tell you how any of his music sounds or explain to anyone the melodies he is playing. Just brilliant.
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I’m glad this thread has started, coz Jazz is my thing. Here’s a couple of Gems that have lasted the distance for me.
This one is a fairly early “spiritual” type vibe piece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLxxeBRqqKw&t=103s
This was a classic for a while
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This album is soooooooooooo beautiful.
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I’m definitely a smooth jazz and jazz fusion person. Paul Hardcastle, Jan Hammer, Return To Forever, Weather Report, etc…
That said, my favorite Jazz related artist would have to be Al Di Meola. I love or at least enjoy most everything he’s done.
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This is a modern masterpiece.