Healing in spiritual jazz is rarely gentle; it is a process of release, remembrance, and renewal. This selection traces that journey through six contemporary meditations. Chelsea Carmichael opens with The Healer, a quiet invocation of inner restoration. Emanative expands the theme into the cosmic with Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe, echoing a lineage that sees sound itself as medicine. Brahja’s Medicine Woman turns inward, ritualistic and transformative, before Idris Ackamoor &amp; The Pyramids summon ancestral wisdom on Shaman!. Kahil El’Zabar’s A Time for Healing offers collective resilience and spiritual grounding, while Work Money Death closes with Song of Healing, a patient, reflective prayer carried by deep listening. Together, these recordings present healing not as a destination, but as a continuous act of connection—to self, community, ancestors, and the unknown.

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ep. 42 &#8211; 21st-Century Spiritual Jazz #6

Ali Eshqi

Let the Chaos Calm You

This episode of 21st century spiritual jazz, Peace Prayer, begins from a simple thought: peace is what we need more than anything now. 
The first movement is explicitly anti-war. Flea, Irreversible Entanglements, Sons of Kemet, and Kamasi Washington push sound into urgency and resistance, where peace is political—demanded against violence, injustice, and historical rupture. 
Then the music opens outward. Yazz Ahmed and Anouar Brahem shape a shared space, where peace becomes collective—built through memory, dialogue, and coexistence across cultures. 
In the final movement, the focus turns inward. Alabaster DePlume, Matthew Halsall, and Pharoah Sanders move toward stillness, where peace becomes spiritual—felt in breath, tone, and presence. 
Peace Prayer holds these together: peace as political, collective, and spiritual at once.

21st century spiritual jazz #5, Peace Prayer.

ep. 41 &#8211; 21st-Century Spiritual Jazz #5

This mixtape, 2025 Reflections, captures a snapshot of spiritual jazz as it unfolded in 2025: expansive, borderless, and deeply intentional. These records move beyond revivalism, treating spiritual jazz not as a fixed style but as a living practice. Cosmic synths, modal improvisation, Afrocentric rhythms, and ambient textures coexist with a clear sense of grounding and purpose.
From the meditative orchestration of The Circling Sun and Ancient Infinity Orchestra to the inward-looking pulse of Phi-Psonics and Sven Wunder, the music here favors patience over virtuosity and atmosphere over spectacle. There is a shared commitment to collective energy, slow transformation, and emotional clarity.
This episode of 21st Century Spiritual Jazz is a reflection of 2025 as a year where the genre continued to evolve quietly but confidently—less concerned with lineage, more focused on resonance. These are records made for listening deeply, sitting still, and letting the music do its work.

21st Century Spiritual Jazz — 2025 Reflections

ep. 40 &#8211; 21st-Century Spiritual Jazz #4

In this episode of the 21st-century spiritual jazz series In the Name of the Spirit, we explore how contemporary musicians continue the tradition of treating spiritual jazz as an interpretation of “spirit”—a flexible idea that can point to ancestry, ritual, personal insight, social connection, or simply a search for meaning through sound. Rather than prescribing a single definition, the genre invites each artist to shape their own pathway. This mixtape brings together music by Cochemea, Kahil El’Zabar with David Murray, Cat Toren, Matthew Halsall, Alabaster DePlume, and the Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet, along with Steve Reid Ensemble, The Cosmic Tones Research Trio, Ravi Coltrane, Nduduzo Makhathini, and Tobias Wiklund. Across these recordings, we hear different approaches to expressing the unseen, highlighting how spiritual jazz continues to evolve and expand in the 21st century.

In the Name of the Spirit, the new episode of the 21st-century spiritual jazz series 

ep. 39 &#8211; 21st-Century Spiritual Jazz #3

Cosmology studies the universe’s origin, structure, and fate, and spiritual jazz often turns music into a sonic exploration of creation. Improvisation mirrors cosmogenesis: from silence or chaos, complex forms emerge, reflecting universal order. 
This episode, “The Creation of the Universe”, opens with Nat Birchall’s Through the Darkness, followed by Nduduzo Makhathini’s Unyazi, meaning lightning in Zulu, channeling divine sparks. Morley, Drake, and Parker’s First Breath of Creation evokes the universe’s first stirrings, while Brother Ah’s Transcendental March treats rhythm as ritual. 
Alireza Ghahremani’s Afarinesh weaves Persian musical cosmology into a tapestry where melody mirrors the universe. Cykada&#8217;s, Urbaniak&#8217;s and the Cosmic Tones Research Trio&#8217;s Creations explore cosmic birth through texture, rhythm, and collective improvisation. Kamasi’s Space Travelers Lullaby closes with a serene journey through astral planes, celebrating music’s spiritual power.

Spiritual jazz as a journey through cosmic creation and universal harmony

ep. 38 &#8211; 21st-Century Spiritual Jazz #2

Spiritual jazz isn’t a strict genre—it’s a state of mind. Born in the late ’60s with Coltrane, Sanders, and Alice Coltrane, it blends free jazz, hard bop, avant-garde, and fusion. Rooted in world religions, African diasporic traditions, and Eastern philosophy, it’s also political—a cry for freedom, a refusal to be silenced, and a stand against oppression. Sometimes meditative, sometimes ecstatic, it’s a prayer, a conversation with the universe, and a journey inward toward truth. 
In the 21st century, artists like Kamasi Washington, Shabaka Hutchings, and Nduduzo Makhathini carry it forward. Our first journey, A Prayer to the Sun, traces the day’s arc: Binker and Moses’ drum-born dawn, Alan Braufman’s brass welcome, EABS’ morning warmth, Birchall and The Heliocentrics at noon, Garcia and Halsall in full blaze, Village of the Sun’s golden hour, and Grossmann’s Sundown—a final bow to the life-giving light that has guided us for millennia.

A sonic journey through the 21st-century revival of spiritual jazz—this episode, a prayer to the sun

ep. 37 &#8211; 21st-Century Spiritual Jazz #1

W dzisiejszej Selekcie:

15:00 - soma blues: camaleón

Songs from the band called Altos Hornos de Vizcaya (AHV) and Zarama.

16:00 - Safe Girl Summer Odcinek 6.
Jak dochodzić naszych praw?

W tym odcinku rozmawiamy z Kamilą Ferenc, prawniczką z Fundacji Przeciw Kulturze Gwałtu. Rozmawiamy o prawnych aspektach przestępstw na tle seksualnym.

Zapraszamy na Instagrama: @fundacjaprzeciwkulturzegwaltu, @kamila.ferenc oraz tradycyjnie @kolektyw_chemia.

Ważne linki:

Ustawa o przeciwdziałaniu narkomanii
https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/download.xsp/WDU20051791485/U/D20051485Lj.pdf

Fundacja Przeciwko Kulturze Gwałtu 
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This podcast is an invitation to practice of deep listening. A journey beyond the borders of idiomatic music. Wandering around in the realm of free improvisation, free jazz, contemporary and experimental music and sound/noise art; where music doesn&#8217;t come packaged up as a song. These music may sound complex and chaotic, while people tend to achieve calmness and peace from music. I believe the chaotic entropy existing in these music may bring peace by practicing deep listening and discovering it without anticipation.

This podcast is an invitation to practice of deep listening. A journey beyond the borders of idiomatic music.

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