Karma

Karma, recorded by Pharoah Sanders in 1969, is a landmark of spiritual jazz that fuses avant-garde free-jazz energy with modal grooves, ritualized percussion, and devotional vocal elements. The album features the extended suite "The Creator Has a Master Plan", pairing Sanders's intense, overblown tenor lines with Leon Thomas's distinctive vocalizations and a spacious ensemble that moves between fiery free improvisation and meditative passages. Its sound emphasizes sustained tones, dense textures, and a questing, transcendental mood, and it is regarded as a key statement in the spiritual jazz movement.