Spiritual Jazz 7: Islam, by Various Artists

Spiritual Jazz 7: Islam

by Various Artists

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topsycat When I put on the music, my cells start to dance, bringing body and soul to a harmonic order. What a magic medicine.

Favorite track: Morning.

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1.	Maurice McIntyre - Humility In The Light Of Creator 02:55	buy track
2.	Ritual Trio - Africanos/Latinos 09:51	buy track
3.	Emmanuel Abdul-Rahim - Kalahari Suite 07:34	buy track
4.	Creative Arts Ensemble - Uhuru 06:22	buy track
5.	East New York Ensemble De Music - Mevlana 11:59	buy track
6.	Idrees Sulieman - The Camel 06:24	buy track
7.	Yusef Lateef - Morning 10:36
8.	Sabu & Sahib Shihab - Nus 03:10	buy track
9.	Abdo - Ah Ya Zen 04:55	buy track
10.	The Lightmen - All Praises To Allah Parts 1 and 2 04:43	buy track
11.	Ahmed Abdul-Malik - Nadusilma 04:01	buy track
12.	Dawan Muhammad - Taumbu 01:28	buy track

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Esoteric, Modal and Progressive Jazz inspired by Islam 1957 - 1988

Songs ancient and divine - the seventh volume of our acclaimed Spiritual Jazz series examines the influence and impact of Islam on four decades of jazz innovation.

Through Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, the civil rights era in America saw African American liberation politics famously associated with Islamic belief. This was not the first time that radical developments in African American cultural life had been widely and famously associated with Islam - that distinction belongs not to political or sporting giants, but to the progressive jazz musicians of the bebop generation.

Kenny Clarke, Art Blakey, Sahib Shihab, Gigi Gryce, Idrees Sulieman, Ahmad Jamal, Yusef Lateef; all these legendary jazz pioneers - and countless more - were early converts to the spiritually charged Ahmadiyya school of Islam. Their faith profoundly influenced the music that they made, and the presence of prominent and innovative Muslim musicians at the heart of jazz culture in America has been recognised ever since.

The tracks on this collection follow the story of Islam and jazz from the 1950s to the 1980s. Recorded by Muslim jazz musicians, they often draw specifically on Middle Eastern or Islamic music, dream of an esoteric or spiritual Afro-East, or invoke the landscape and sound worlds of Islamic Africa. Spiritual Jazz 7 presents a selection of visionary music – inspired by faith, powered by jazz.

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released April 6, 2017

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