You can listen to the podcast version via the player below. Write-ups of individual albums and sample tracks follow. Welcome to the party! For this episode of Crate Digging, we have chosen some of our favorite spiritual jazz albums!

Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop, 2021)

Alice Coltrane, Journey in Satchidananda (Impulse!, 1971)

John McLaughlin, My Goal’s Beyond (Douglas, 1971)

Lonnie Liston Smith, Astral Traveling (Flying Dutchman, 1973)

Muriel Grossman, Reverence (Dreamland, 2019)

Sun Ra, Space Is the Place (Blue Thumb, 1973)

McCoy Tyner, Asante (Blue Note, 1974)

Tom Scott, The Honeysuckle Breeze (Impulse!, 1967)

Maisha, There is a Place (Brownswood, 2019)

Charlie Haden and Hank Jones, Steal Away (Verve, 1995)