spiritual jazz

noun

A subgenre of jazz that originated in the United States during the 1960s focusing on transcendence and spirituality.

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Meanings

nounspiritual jazz (uncountable)
  1. uncountableentertainmentA subgenre of jazz that originated in the United States during the 1960s focusing on transcendence and spirituality.

    Alice Coltrane, along with her husband John, Pharaoh Sanders, Sun Ra and a few others, are the artists most closely identified with the so-called “spiritual jazz.”

    2022, Philip Freeman, Ugly Beauty: Jazz in the 21st Century, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN
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APA

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Chicago

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