What is the best spiritual jazz album of all time?

Spiritual jazz reached for the divine through sound — Coltrane's transcendent A Love Supreme, Pharoah Sanders's cosmic Karma, Alice Coltrane's meditative harps. These albums are sacred music for the secular age.

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   A Love Supreme

   John Coltrane's 1964 four-part suite — the foundational spiritual jazz album.
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   Karma

   Pharoah Sanders's 1969 album with 'The Creator Has a Master Plan' — transcendent spiritual jazz.
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   Journey in Satchidananda

   Alice Coltrane's 1971 meditative masterwork — harp and sax as devotional music.
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   Spiritual Unity

   Albert Ayler's 1964 ESP-Disk recording — raw spiritual free jazz.
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   Meditations

   John Coltrane's 1966 Impulse album — the deepest expression of his spiritual vision.
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   Tauhid

   Pharoah Sanders's 1967 debut as leader — Arabic modes and meditative saxophone.
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   Universal Consciousness

   Alice Coltrane's 1971 psychedelic string-quartet-meets-jazz experiment.
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   Thembi

   Pharoah Sanders's 1971 Impulse album — mystical Africana and spiritual jazz.
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   Eastern Sounds

   Yusef Lateef's 1961 album — Arabic/African modes meet Western jazz vocabulary.
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    Space Is the Place

    Sun Ra's 1973 cosmic manifesto — Afrofuturist spiritual jazz at its most iconic.
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    Promises

    Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & LSO's 2021 album — 21st-century spiritual jazz reborn.
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    Black Unity

    Pharoah Sanders's 1971 long-form spiritual jazz masterwork — a 37-minute meditation.