BLACK CLASSICAL - HISTORY OF SPIRITUAL JAZZ

September 7, 2016 10:02 PM

Black Classical charts the history of spiritual jazz through a 12 hour mega-mix.

c/o NTS.Live, an online radio station based in London with studios in Los Angeles, Shanghai and Manchester. Broadcasting underground music live, 24/7.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

Featuring Fred Stone, Bob Thiele, Dwight Trible, the Massimo Urbani Quarter, Elvin Jones, Sunday Palaver, Sarh Webster Fabio, Cheikh Tidiane, Sun Ra, Soloman Iria, David S. Ware, Karmu Daahoud, Mor Thaim, Pyramids, Herbie Hancock, Brother Ah, Sam Rivers, Edward Vesala, Richard Abrahams, Infinate Sound, Babatunde Lee, Don Cherry, John Coltrane, Pharaoh Sanders, Eddie Gale, Gil-Scott Heron + very many more.

posted by philip-random (10 comments total)

Erm..... wow, philip-random. Thanks a million for this startling find!
posted by On the Corner at 12:23 AM on September 8, 2016 [3 favorites]

This looks like a great collection.

I'm going to save this. I'll wait until we have a big snow storm and I'm snowed in. What a perfect way to idle away a snow day.
posted by james33 at 1:31 AM on September 8, 2016 [1 favorite]

Check the TV broadcasts by Alice Coltrane featured in a recent AskMe
posted by thelonius at 3:59 AM on September 8, 2016 [3 favorites]

Whoa. This is dope. Thanks philip-random!
posted by Bob Regular at 6:14 AM on September 8, 2016

yo...this one actually has tracklists too!!! black_classical was on archive.org and other crate digger forums for a bit, and he seems to have created quite the legend. supposedly known knuckle-dusty diggers were envious of this persons selection and were left in amazement. and now he's on NTS. whaddaya-know.
posted by brainimplant at 6:25 AM on September 8, 2016 [1 favorite]

This is the kind of music that got me hooked on jazz in the early 70's.
posted by kozad at 7:02 AM on September 8, 2016

Thank you! I can't wait to check this out on a better connection. I've been on a Spiritiual Jazz freak out the last few weeks after a friend posted this on the FacePlace. I hope there's never a time in my life where I can't be surprised and allowed a greater appreciation of things I've loved and thought i knew fairly well.
posted by Conrad-Casserole at 4:26 PM on September 8, 2016 [1 favorite]

It's interesting that the Black Classical page is using the artwork from Miles Davis' Bitches Brew. I don't think either he or that album were considered part of the spiritual jazz genre, were they?
posted by fuse theorem at 8:52 PM on September 8, 2016

No I don't think so
posted by thelonius at 6:28 AM on September 9, 2016

Thank you thank you thank you!!!
posted by artof.mulata at 12:49 PM on September 18, 2016