Let the Chaos Calm You: ep. 42 – 21st-Century Spiritual Jazz #6
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 & 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.
- - Chelsea Carmichael - The Healer, (The River Doesn't Like Strangers, 2021 - Native Rebel Recordings)
- - Emanative feat. Earl Zinger & Valerie Etienne - Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe, (The Light Years Of The Darkness, 2015 - Steve Reid Foundation / Brownswood Recordings)
- - Brahja - Medicine Woman, (BRAHJA, 2019 - Devin Brahja Waldman)
- - Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids - Shaman!, (Shaman!, 2020 - Strut Records)
- - Kahil El'Zabar Quartet - A Time for Healing, (A Time For Healing, 2022 - Spiritmuse Records)
- - Work Money Death - Song of Healing, (Thought, Action, Reaction, Interaction, 2022 - ATA Records)