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spiritual jazz

spiritual jazz noun: a subgenre of jazz that originated in the United States during the 1960s focusing on transcendence and spirituality.

Noun

spiritual jazz (uncountable)

  1. A 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

Questions about spiritual jazz

What does spiritual jazz mean?
Spiritual jazz means a subgenre of jazz that originated in the United States during the 1960s focusing on transcendence and spirituality.
What part of speech is spiritual jazz?
Spiritual jazz is a noun.

Words near spiritual jazz in the dictionary

  1. spiritual bypassing
  2. spiritual desertion
  3. spiritual desertions
  4. spiritual healing
  5. spiritual incest
  6. spiritual jazz
  7. spiritual leader
  8. spiritual leaders
  9. spiritual midden
  10. spiritual middens
  11. spiritual naturalism

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