A couple of hours ago Pure Jazz Festival in The Hague kicked off with a crazy show by the Kindred Spirits Ensemble. The ensemble is a project initiated by KC the Funkaholic, a regular guest of the Future Vintage show, containing the best musicians NL has to offer. Performing rarely, due to it’s size (over 20 musicians!), the ensemble plays an ode to the legacy of Coltrane. This legacy is also known as Spiritual Jazz and does not always necessarily sounds like that typical ‘jazz sound’. The musical approach which is found within Spiritual Jazz can also be recognized in, for instance, Mos Def or Theo Parrish… To define Spiritual Jazz it’s best to look at Coltrane’s way of thinking in the positive sense: “I believe music is an instrument, it can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people”. The Kindred Spirits Ensemble plays a broad range of Spiritual Jazz music, embracing new arrangements of Mos Def, Pharaoh Sanders and off course Coltrane himself !

Tomorrow it’s Future Vintage Radio at Pure Jazz Festival, for tonight I’ll leave you with this special video of the Kindred Spirits Ensemble at Paradiso, and of course the pictures of the beautiful perfomance earlier tonight of the Kindred Spirits Ensemble featuring Pete Philly….