Various Artists

• 2xCD in foldout Digipak sleeve

• 28 page printed insert

Volume 9 of Jazzman's Spiritual Jazz series takes a close look at the deeper side of Blue Note – from the experimental avant-garde explored by younger musicians such as Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Henderson and Pete La Roca, to the exciting new developments in modal sounds put forward by stalwarts Hank Mobley, Jackie McLean and Duke Pearson. The music selected shows how musicians working with the label responded to a period of dramatic social and sonic change, charting the route toward the esoteric and spiritualised sounds that would dominate the deepest jazz of the 1970s.

ARTISTS & THEMES

• CD ONE
• 01. Bobby Hutcherson • Verse
• 02. Pete La Roca • Basra
• 03. Wayne Shorter • Footprints
• 04. Elvin Jones • At This Point In Time
• 05. Andrew Hill • Poinsettia
• 06. Eddie Gale • The Rain
• 07. Duke Pearson • Empathy
• 08. Bobby Hutcherson • Searchin' The Trane
• 09. Duke Pearson • The Phantom
• 10. Freddie Hubbard • Assunta

• CD TWO
• 01. Joe Henderson • El Barrio
• 02. Jackie McLean • Plight
• 03. Duke Pearson • Cristo Redentor
• 04. Wayne Shorter • Indian Song
• 05. Hank Mobley • The Morning After
• 06. Pete La Roca • Malaguena
• 07. Freddie Hubbard • Blue Spirits
• 08. Booker Ervin • Gichi
• 09. Solomon Ilori • Igbesi Aiye (Song of Praise to God)