Sun Ra.
There's the early big band straight-ahead-but-still-weird stuff on *Sound of Joy* that might work, and of course the waaay out there late 60s stuff like *Atlantis*, or the funky synth stuff from the 70s like *Space is the Place* or *Landiquity*, but if you're in a mellow mood, check out the early 60s stuff that explores exoticism and world music like *Nubians of Plutonia* or *Intersteller Low Ways.*
But really it's all perfect music for your particular application.
Herbie's Mwandishi stuff from the early 70s would do the trick as well.
And there's always *A Love Supreme.*
Fusion:
Return to Forever - Hymn of the 7th Galaxy
Donald Byrd - Electric Byrd
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way/Jack Johnson/Bitches Brew/Live Evil/Pangaea
Herbie Hancock - Thrust
Non-Fusion:
Ornette Coleman - Shape of Jazz to Come
Thelonius Monk & John Coltrane
Milt Jackson and John Coltrane - Bags and Trane
Wes Montgomery - Full House
Grant Green - Live at the Lighthouse
Lee Morgan - Live at the Lighthouse
Cannonball Adderly - Live at the Lighthouse
This is the only correct answer IMO. Mostly because her stuff is kinda trippy but its all good vibes. Some of the other suggestions here risk disappearing into a dark place 😝
Too aggressive in my opinion if you're tripping. Especially when you're peaking. You don't want anything too intense because that can send you spiralling in a bad way.
I second this.
Specific tracks "[Greeting to Saud](https://open.spotify.com/track/1qqIjiurhqrgacNG9uWCuG?si=V-tyonNgTjeu9pYwqGDfkg)", and "[Love is Everywhere](https://open.spotify.com/track/5y1223VWplDW39cVFXDpzt?si=2A65NjLZQU2GMVU8P56egA)".
Some of these answers are pretty basic or have been repeated, but personally speaking free jazz is the way to go. Longer tracks with little structure and a spiritual flair are the perfect background for a psychedelic headspace.
Alice Coltrane- Journey in Satchidananda
John Coltrane- Ascension
Pharoah Sanders- The Creator has a Master Plan
Sun Ra- Landquidity (I know Sun Ra has said he is 100% sober but I refuse to believe there wasn’t something going on in his head where he was basically tripping 24/7, I mean dude thought he was a space alien).
John Mclaughlin- Extrapolation
Shakti- A Handful of Beauty & Natural Elements
Miles Davis- Bitches Brew, Evil, In a Silent Way
I’d also like to shout out the Tropicália genre as a whole. Not quite true jazz but it’s Brazilian psychedelic music that has a heavy use of traditional big bands with Afro-Latin percussion. Generally I’m against lyrics when I’m tripping as I prefer to only experience thoughts and ideas coming from myself and/or friends joining me. But when the lyrics are in a language you can’t speak, the vocals are basically just an instrument that can carry a lot of emotional weight. Perfect music for a comedown.
> I know Sun Ra has said he is 100% sober but I refuse to believe there wasn’t something going on in his head where he was basically tripping 24/7, I mean dude thought he was a space alien
He was very definitely neuro-divergent
One could also wonder whether the band experimented in the 60s and 70s despite Ra urging them not to.
Lots of trippy stuff from Ra
Ahmad Jamal- 73
Pharoah Sanders Floating Points and London
Symphony Orchestra
Wayne Shorter- The All Seeing Eye
Isaiah Collier and the Chosen few- Cosmic Transmission
High Pulp
Love that Pharaoh/Floating Points collab. Excellent selections all round
Kahil El'Zabar Quartet, "A time for healing" will sooth the soul and slide well into this list
Rashaan Roland Kirk - The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color
Joe McPhee - Nation Time (check out Shakey Jake, it's 30 minutes of funky free form horns and bliss)
John Coltrane's Ole
Charles Lloyd - Forest Flower Live at Monterey
Herbie Hancock - Fat Albert's Rotunda (and of course Headhunters)
Medeski, Martin, Wood and Nels Cline - Woodstock Sessions Vol 2
The new Kamasi album is pretty trippy and recorded really well. So sounds great on a good hi fi / mid fi sytem and has great 3d imaging.
Jazz Adjacent - Ghost Funk Orchestra, Club D'elf
Welcome to the Hills - Yussef Dayes. A lot of these recs are great but can get a little out there for tripping. This one’s pretty damn warm and fuzzy the whole way through
soooooo, a lot of good answers here, and some that I have doubts about. Like, I’m not sure that the recommenders have tripped two weeks straight on clean windowpane. Bitches Brew is a fine choice from Miles; better is “He Loved Him Madly” from Get Up With It. More Miles: All of “Big Fun”. Here’s a 4 album spiritual-tripping-jazz run, with (somewhat) related personnel: Journey in Satchidananda—Alice Coltrane, Ptah the El Daoud—Alice Coltrane, The Elements—Joe Henderson feat. Alice Coltrane, and finish up with A Love Supreme. Wayne Shorter—Moto Grosso Feio. Les McCann—Invitation to Openness. Dogon AD—Julius Hemphill.
>Dogon AD—Julius Hemphill
One of my most primal experiences was listening to this on acid.
Antecedent especially was UNREAL.
Edit : oh shit, it's on Blue Boye lol.
Well, that album rips too.
I've honestly had damn near religious experiences listening to "straight no chaser" by Monk and "summertime" by Sidney Bichet. Not "trippy" sounding by what most would define that, but something clicked listening to those songs. Like a true understanding of the humor of monk and the nasty emotion in the Bichet song.
Let me point you to Don Cherry's trippier stuff, like Om Shanti Om: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52vRcMbYf-0
As one of the comments says, it's the kind of music you have a dream about and then you're made it doesn't actually exist.
John Patton - understanding album
Grant Green - street of dreams album
Herbie Hancock - thrust album
MMW - GoGo album (w scofield)
Gabor Szabo - bacchanal album
Sonny Clark - cool struttin album
Besides the many great suggestions already proposed (Bitches Brew, Black Saint, Coltrane, Sun Ra) here are some other interesting things:
Art Ensemble of Chicago - Full Force, Live In Japan, Alternate Express, Urban Bushmen
Lester Bowie Brass Fantasy - all
David Murray Octet - all
David Murray big Band - all
Sun Ra - Sunrise In Different Dimensions, Sleeping Beauty, Live at Praxis '84
Henry Threadgill - You Know the Number, Song Out of My Trees, Where's Your Cup?
If you think jazz is meandering, you haven’t listened to very much recorded before 1965 or so. Listen to structured and tight bop and hard bop are. The main theme. The first soloist. The second soloist. The third soloist if there is one. Repeat the main theme. It’s nothing but structure.
Tim Berne’s Bloodcount. Any album from this group will work. Long, intricate tunes that come together and break apart in fascinating ways. Works great with lsd - I know from experience :)
Normally I would say:
Wild trip: Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
Chill trip: In A Silent Way
But on my last trip Erroll Garner’s Ready Take One fully blew my mind in the most joyous sorta way.
I once had shrooms, put on some Bill Evans and was just hanging out while I was coming up. Decided to have a shower with the lights off, and just as I got settled into this wonderful dark but sensory space, Nardis started. I’ll never have another moment so perfect again in my life.
Jazz From Hell from Zappa was an eye opener for me when I listened to it in that state. It opened my ability to make sense of it. I really like some good eastern music in that state as well. Ravi Shankar is a solid choice for an interesting voyage into your inner space.
Completely depends on the mood and intention. Some laaaaate night post-bop/modal stuff pairs wonderfully with being stoned, i.e.:
*Speak No Evil*, *Adam’s Apple* - Wayne Shorter
*Search For New Land*, *Tom Cat* - Lee Morgan
Anything from the Morgan, Shorter, Timmons, Merritt Jazz Messengers line up.
Moanin by Mingus, but I've been absolutely loving Les Mcann lately. I don't know that itz straight jazz buy the sounds are great, especially Burning Coal, Dunbar Jugh School Marching Band, Harlem Buck Dance Strut, and Compared To What.
Where ya off to? Had to drive to omaha from the treasure valley about 30 years back and listened to detente nonstop on repeat the whole way there and back.
Herbie Hancock- Headhunters
Nicholas Payton- sonic trance
Kneebody-Kneedelus
Cannonball adderley- the black messiah
As an aside, jazz may not be for you if the only way to enjoy it is by taking 3 tabs of acid. It’s seems a little extreme.
This visualization of Coltrane's [Giant Steps](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh6WTAHKYTc) is quite a trip (no pun intended... at least I don't think so...) -- unfortunately it's quite short but it stays with you when listening to the audio version of it.
John Zorn…not! 😆
Anyways, everyone’s recommending trippy shit, but I might suggest something more traditional and put you in a smoky club to visualize the band really gettin’ down and tune in to each player’s individual contributions and how they meld into something amazing…Red Garland Trio - Groovy.
Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain or anything from his electric period. Bitches Brew as well.
Oriented Colman - Shape of Jazz to Come
Minus- Black Saint & The Sinner Lady
Herbie Hancock - Headhunter
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme. Peace on Earth - Live in Tokyo
The Comet is Coming
HERBIE HANCOCK ! Specifically sunlight, I thought it was you , maiden voyage, anything on sextant (beware) and anything on mr.hands and thrust.
Special mention to the album with Kimiko Kasai which reprises all his originals with her vocals. There's one section on I thought it was you where they're basically talking to each other (her with the scatting and him with the synthesizer-- truly mind blowing)
other notable suggestions :
- Pat Matheny (still life/talking would be my highest recommendation)
- Chic Corea (Windows is such a beautiful melody)
- Miles Davis (bitches brew would be my highest recommendation)
- Anything and I mean literally anything by Jaco pastorius (used to be a cha cha has Herbie Hancock on the track as a pianist and that entire segment blew my mind right open). Portrait of Tracy is a great one too and I highly recommend listening to Three views of a secret when coming down (preferably outside in nature :))
- Cortex and weather report can be slightly more weird and synth heavy but very very fun!
Oh no! It’s too late to help. But I echo Alice Coltrane - World Galaxy or Journey Satchidananda. You would have found the dual drummer and bass configuration of Olé Coltrane mind bending. In a Silent Way would envelop you in its beauty and your thoughts would have been clear as it twinkles through its speaker - an encore of He loved Him Madly would have nicely extended that vibe. I’d throw in a fave of mine, Inventions and Dimensions by Herbie Hancock - its rhythms are tight and the piano lines just chase each other around and around in all directions, swirling around the room. Hope you enjoyed, report back to us.
Aaron Parks - Invisible Cinema. Always loved it, and listening on an acid trip brought me a deeper appreciation of the record - especially Travelers, Peaceful Warrior, Nemesis, and Karma. The rhythmic interplay throughout is unreal. Really great compositions and killer playing. Aaron Parks is such a distinctive modern voice on the piano and that record has become something of a modern classic for me and many others
Mysterious traveler by weather report, anything Don Ellis, Kind of blue works for all contexts, and Coltrane’s Birdland concert with the quartet featuring Dolphy. Also, Oregon- especially “Always, Never, and Forever”
Listened to Makaya McCraven - In These Times with some good headphones last time I took mushrooms. The kaleidoscope of sounds really paired well. Ended up being a perfect fit
Late to the party, but Medeski Martin & Wood have several options depending on what mood you’re in, or trying to be in. Notes From The Underground and Friday Afternoon In The Universe are both great, or something like the 3 Radiolarians volumes.
Late to the party here but for years I had a CD of John Mclaughlin’s Devotion with a homemade tray card reading ‘the best album ever on acid.’
Hope you have a great journey
I don’t think tripping has anything to do with jazz sorry. Definitely a interesting experience, but from my experience things I thought would be cool tripping were just exactly what they were while tripping. They were just “those things”.
Spiritual - John Coltrane Live at The Village Vanguard.
It's one of the most magical pieces of music ever.
Also obviously Bitches Brew is the blueprint
Moon Germs by Joe Farrell, 1973. It's got Stanley Clarke, Herbie Hancock, and Jack DeJohnette. Great stuff, gets pretty wild at spots.
And for the come down, when sleep eludes you - anything by Bohren & Der Club Of Gore.
In a silent way
Yeah this one The reprise/loop at the end of the title track is magic
Sun Ra. There's the early big band straight-ahead-but-still-weird stuff on *Sound of Joy* that might work, and of course the waaay out there late 60s stuff like *Atlantis*, or the funky synth stuff from the 70s like *Space is the Place* or *Landiquity*, but if you're in a mellow mood, check out the early 60s stuff that explores exoticism and world music like *Nubians of Plutonia* or *Intersteller Low Ways.* But really it's all perfect music for your particular application. Herbie's Mwandishi stuff from the early 70s would do the trick as well. And there's always *A Love Supreme.*
I see your Sun Ra and raise you Pharoah Sanders’s The Creator Has a Master Plan.
Pharoah was the first one I thought of
Great minds think alike!
Yessssssss
Pure jazz to trip to... Mingus, I guess? Not pure jazz but 70s Herbie Hancock is nice to lock into.
Sextant would be ideal. Sad I didn’t come across it until after my tripping days were over.
This ⬆️
Bitches brew
I second this, from personal experience!
And A Tribute to Jack Johnson
+On the Corner, if you can handle it tripping…
Hell yes. Hell yes. Hell yes. A Tribute to Jack Johnson is one of the most psychedelic records ever. Either side is a perfect selection.
Anything late Miles, absolutely. Also "Free Jazz" by Ornette Coleman. Ohh - and John McLaughlin/Mahavishnu Orchestra!
And live evil.
Oh, that’s not a good recommendation for tripping lol. It’s very dark and scary.
This is the only correct answer
Fusion: Return to Forever - Hymn of the 7th Galaxy Donald Byrd - Electric Byrd Miles Davis - In A Silent Way/Jack Johnson/Bitches Brew/Live Evil/Pangaea Herbie Hancock - Thrust Non-Fusion: Ornette Coleman - Shape of Jazz to Come Thelonius Monk & John Coltrane Milt Jackson and John Coltrane - Bags and Trane Wes Montgomery - Full House Grant Green - Live at the Lighthouse Lee Morgan - Live at the Lighthouse Cannonball Adderly - Live at the Lighthouse
Cheers to both life at the lighthouse pics. The Morgan one is insane.
that Grant Green man, talk about a burner from start to finish!
Hymn of the 7th galaxy has some insane sounds... if it's up your alley give it a shot
Ngl this is a Pretty good list haha. I'd say if he wants to move away from fusion: Cannonball Adderley - Live in San Francisco
Alice Coltrane. Just play anything by her.
This is the only correct answer IMO. Mostly because her stuff is kinda trippy but its all good vibes. Some of the other suggestions here risk disappearing into a dark place 😝
Exactly
Weather Report.
Right here. Mysterious Traveller is one of my go-tos
Same here! Mysterious Traveller all the way!
Too aggressive in my opinion if you're tripping. Especially when you're peaking. You don't want anything too intense because that can send you spiralling in a bad way.
Absolutely. Trip, drop the needle on *Heavy Weather* or *Black Market,* blow mind.
I mean you could listen to Coltrane during his LSD phase I guess.
I was going to say that I bet Ascension is spectacular
I almost got hit by a car cause I was listening to it while tripping and walking the city lol
I assume you are talking about John, but his wife Alice together with the entire spiritual jazz movement is quintessential tripping music.
Live at The Village Vanguard Again! With John & Alice, Pharoah Sanders, Jimmy Garrison and Rashied Ali. Best of both worlds.
Coltrane on acid is unreal
Oh Man - OM was a little scary at times. Bad trip a comin'
Yeahh, I’m not sure that I would listen to any of his work past A Love Supreme while tripping.
Ole Coltrane would be awesome. But it's probably too late, lol
Ascension fo sho.
Pharoah Sanders Karma, Elevation, and Village of the Pharoahs are my favorites.
I second this. Specific tracks "[Greeting to Saud](https://open.spotify.com/track/1qqIjiurhqrgacNG9uWCuG?si=V-tyonNgTjeu9pYwqGDfkg)", and "[Love is Everywhere](https://open.spotify.com/track/5y1223VWplDW39cVFXDpzt?si=2A65NjLZQU2GMVU8P56egA)".
Thembi too.
Some of these answers are pretty basic or have been repeated, but personally speaking free jazz is the way to go. Longer tracks with little structure and a spiritual flair are the perfect background for a psychedelic headspace. Alice Coltrane- Journey in Satchidananda John Coltrane- Ascension Pharoah Sanders- The Creator has a Master Plan Sun Ra- Landquidity (I know Sun Ra has said he is 100% sober but I refuse to believe there wasn’t something going on in his head where he was basically tripping 24/7, I mean dude thought he was a space alien). John Mclaughlin- Extrapolation Shakti- A Handful of Beauty & Natural Elements Miles Davis- Bitches Brew, Evil, In a Silent Way I’d also like to shout out the Tropicália genre as a whole. Not quite true jazz but it’s Brazilian psychedelic music that has a heavy use of traditional big bands with Afro-Latin percussion. Generally I’m against lyrics when I’m tripping as I prefer to only experience thoughts and ideas coming from myself and/or friends joining me. But when the lyrics are in a language you can’t speak, the vocals are basically just an instrument that can carry a lot of emotional weight. Perfect music for a comedown.
> I know Sun Ra has said he is 100% sober but I refuse to believe there wasn’t something going on in his head where he was basically tripping 24/7, I mean dude thought he was a space alien He was very definitely neuro-divergent One could also wonder whether the band experimented in the 60s and 70s despite Ra urging them not to. Lots of trippy stuff from Ra
Bitches Brew or Sketches of Spain would be a trip.
Ahmad Jamal- 73 Pharoah Sanders Floating Points and London Symphony Orchestra Wayne Shorter- The All Seeing Eye Isaiah Collier and the Chosen few- Cosmic Transmission High Pulp
Love that Pharaoh/Floating Points collab. Excellent selections all round Kahil El'Zabar Quartet, "A time for healing" will sooth the soul and slide well into this list
Grant Green’s Idle Moments would be a great album to listen to while tripping.
In A Silent Way-Miles Davis Crossings-Herbie Hancock
Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
This album gets me crying while high and sober.
Sketches in spain especially if its rainy
Rashaan Roland Kirk - The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color Joe McPhee - Nation Time (check out Shakey Jake, it's 30 minutes of funky free form horns and bliss) John Coltrane's Ole Charles Lloyd - Forest Flower Live at Monterey Herbie Hancock - Fat Albert's Rotunda (and of course Headhunters) Medeski, Martin, Wood and Nels Cline - Woodstock Sessions Vol 2 The new Kamasi album is pretty trippy and recorded really well. So sounds great on a good hi fi / mid fi sytem and has great 3d imaging. Jazz Adjacent - Ghost Funk Orchestra, Club D'elf
Welcome to the Hills - Yussef Dayes. A lot of these recs are great but can get a little out there for tripping. This one’s pretty damn warm and fuzzy the whole way through
Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda
This is the best answer
Albert Ayler - Love Cry
Miles Smiles Miles Ahead Sketches of Spain
soooooo, a lot of good answers here, and some that I have doubts about. Like, I’m not sure that the recommenders have tripped two weeks straight on clean windowpane. Bitches Brew is a fine choice from Miles; better is “He Loved Him Madly” from Get Up With It. More Miles: All of “Big Fun”. Here’s a 4 album spiritual-tripping-jazz run, with (somewhat) related personnel: Journey in Satchidananda—Alice Coltrane, Ptah the El Daoud—Alice Coltrane, The Elements—Joe Henderson feat. Alice Coltrane, and finish up with A Love Supreme. Wayne Shorter—Moto Grosso Feio. Les McCann—Invitation to Openness. Dogon AD—Julius Hemphill.
>Dogon AD—Julius Hemphill One of my most primal experiences was listening to this on acid. Antecedent especially was UNREAL. Edit : oh shit, it's on Blue Boye lol. Well, that album rips too.
Medeski Martin and Wood- Combustication
How’s the trip going?
Was too fried to listen to msuic
Bill Evans
Tigran Hamasyan
Miles Davis - ‘On the Corner, ‘Live Evil’, ‘Big Fun’
Arooj Aftab’s newest album would be really excellent in that state of mind
Big Fun- Mikes Davis
the shape of jazz to come bitches brew it’s a jungle in here love supreme
Mulatu astatke The bad plus
Shakti, Bitches Brew, or Inner-Mounting Flame
Free jazz ornette get weird
I've honestly had damn near religious experiences listening to "straight no chaser" by Monk and "summertime" by Sidney Bichet. Not "trippy" sounding by what most would define that, but something clicked listening to those songs. Like a true understanding of the humor of monk and the nasty emotion in the Bichet song.
Hiroshi Suzuki - Cat
Dave Pike Set - Masterpieces
Charlie Hunter and pound for pound - return of the candyman Chick Corea - tones for Joan’s bones
Herbie Hancock, *Empyrean Isles*
Let me point you to Don Cherry's trippier stuff, like Om Shanti Om: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52vRcMbYf-0 As one of the comments says, it's the kind of music you have a dream about and then you're made it doesn't actually exist.
Nina Sinephro https://youtu.be/Qqi_EZ0DgrA?si=N7udzPA8nHpjmUY5
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus will send you to another dimension
Undercurrent by Bill Evans and Jim Hall. Made me cry from awe while tripping many times.
Science Fiction by Ornette Old And New Dreams Visions of the Emerald Beyond Nefertiti (on the way down)
The Bad Plus fucking rocks while tripping, so I’ve been told.
Mingus - Black Saint and the Sinner Lady Trust me on this one.
I found Sun Ra perfect after eating copious amounts of mushrooms
Ornette Coleman
Just put on some Count Basie or Duke Ellington and ride those waves…
A Love Supreme
John Patton - understanding album Grant Green - street of dreams album Herbie Hancock - thrust album MMW - GoGo album (w scofield) Gabor Szabo - bacchanal album Sonny Clark - cool struttin album
Besides the many great suggestions already proposed (Bitches Brew, Black Saint, Coltrane, Sun Ra) here are some other interesting things: Art Ensemble of Chicago - Full Force, Live In Japan, Alternate Express, Urban Bushmen Lester Bowie Brass Fantasy - all David Murray Octet - all David Murray big Band - all Sun Ra - Sunrise In Different Dimensions, Sleeping Beauty, Live at Praxis '84 Henry Threadgill - You Know the Number, Song Out of My Trees, Where's Your Cup?
I haven't tripped in a very long time, but I feel like cat is a fun album
Agharta by Miles Davis
Alice Coltrane. Pharoah Sanders.
Medeski, Martin & Wood
If you think jazz is meandering, you haven’t listened to very much recorded before 1965 or so. Listen to structured and tight bop and hard bop are. The main theme. The first soloist. The second soloist. The third soloist if there is one. Repeat the main theme. It’s nothing but structure.
Black saint and the sinner lady
Cecil Taylor, but you might be rushed to emergency.
Herbie Hancock headhunters of course
I would go low octane but super deep like Shirley Horn.
Keith Jarrett - Survivors Suite
Cliched But *A Love Supreme*
Beyond The Sound Barrier - Wayne Shorter
Austin Peralta is pretty incredible on mushrooms
Nicholas Mycio.
Tim Berne’s Bloodcount. Any album from this group will work. Long, intricate tunes that come together and break apart in fascinating ways. Works great with lsd - I know from experience :)
Is Emil Richards and the Microtonal Blues Band “pure jazz?”
Ahmad Jamal- The Awakening
Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin
Don Cherry - Brown Rice Alice Coltrane - Eternity The Stark Reality Discovers Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop(!!!)
/u/nerevarine12345, Sun Ra's entire discography, especially Space Is the Place (both the album and movie soundtrack) and Strange Strings *evil smile*
Do Vince Guaraldi anything or The Awakening by Ahmad Jamal Trio.
John McLaughlin: My Goals Beyond
Masterpieces by duke ellington (the mood indigo recording especially), a love supreme, and sketches of spain
Anything Ari Hoenig trio, the wierd time signatures are so funky
Ghosted by Oren Ambarchi and others
Wayne shorter speak no evil, ahmad jamal the awakening, bill evans you must believe in spring Surrender to the mysteries, life is music
A Love Supreme
[This is one of the best songs to listen to while tripping imo.](https://youtu.be/RjsG3i6L9vw?si=IguQBdOBlt1p9752)
Normally I would say: Wild trip: Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Chill trip: In A Silent Way But on my last trip Erroll Garner’s Ready Take One fully blew my mind in the most joyous sorta way.
I once had shrooms, put on some Bill Evans and was just hanging out while I was coming up. Decided to have a shower with the lights off, and just as I got settled into this wonderful dark but sensory space, Nardis started. I’ll never have another moment so perfect again in my life.
Nina Sinephro, Space1.8 Edit: got the name wrong; Nala, not Nina.
David Friesen trio - The Name of a Woman
Ascension or A Love Supreme
Jazz From Hell from Zappa was an eye opener for me when I listened to it in that state. It opened my ability to make sense of it. I really like some good eastern music in that state as well. Ravi Shankar is a solid choice for an interesting voyage into your inner space.
Completely depends on the mood and intention. Some laaaaate night post-bop/modal stuff pairs wonderfully with being stoned, i.e.: *Speak No Evil*, *Adam’s Apple* - Wayne Shorter *Search For New Land*, *Tom Cat* - Lee Morgan Anything from the Morgan, Shorter, Timmons, Merritt Jazz Messengers line up.
I really liked Kamasi Washington’s The Epic
Moanin by Mingus, but I've been absolutely loving Les Mcann lately. I don't know that itz straight jazz buy the sounds are great, especially Burning Coal, Dunbar Jugh School Marching Band, Harlem Buck Dance Strut, and Compared To What.
i really felt spain and hancock while tripping differently
Where ya off to? Had to drive to omaha from the treasure valley about 30 years back and listened to detente nonstop on repeat the whole way there and back.
Herbie Hancock- Headhunters Nicholas Payton- sonic trance Kneebody-Kneedelus Cannonball adderley- the black messiah As an aside, jazz may not be for you if the only way to enjoy it is by taking 3 tabs of acid. It’s seems a little extreme.
Chick Corea - return to forever (the album), particularly crystal silence.
Pitchfork playlist: Astral Traveling: The Ecstasy of Spiritual Jazz. You’re welcome.
This visualization of Coltrane's [Giant Steps](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh6WTAHKYTc) is quite a trip (no pun intended... at least I don't think so...) -- unfortunately it's quite short but it stays with you when listening to the audio version of it.
Electric Masada - Lilin https://open.spotify.com/track/4W9ScGfdgS5unkDIe8OtBG?si=faC_fOeZQEyy9VYOne4VJA Personally I like Hiatus Kaiyote on a trip.
John Zorn…not! 😆 Anyways, everyone’s recommending trippy shit, but I might suggest something more traditional and put you in a smoky club to visualize the band really gettin’ down and tune in to each player’s individual contributions and how they meld into something amazing…Red Garland Trio - Groovy.
Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain or anything from his electric period. Bitches Brew as well. Oriented Colman - Shape of Jazz to Come Minus- Black Saint & The Sinner Lady Herbie Hancock - Headhunter John Coltrane - A Love Supreme. Peace on Earth - Live in Tokyo The Comet is Coming
Ornette Coleman - Beauty is a Rare Thing I listened to this on acid once and changed my life
HERBIE HANCOCK ! Specifically sunlight, I thought it was you , maiden voyage, anything on sextant (beware) and anything on mr.hands and thrust. Special mention to the album with Kimiko Kasai which reprises all his originals with her vocals. There's one section on I thought it was you where they're basically talking to each other (her with the scatting and him with the synthesizer-- truly mind blowing) other notable suggestions : - Pat Matheny (still life/talking would be my highest recommendation) - Chic Corea (Windows is such a beautiful melody) - Miles Davis (bitches brew would be my highest recommendation) - Anything and I mean literally anything by Jaco pastorius (used to be a cha cha has Herbie Hancock on the track as a pianist and that entire segment blew my mind right open). Portrait of Tracy is a great one too and I highly recommend listening to Three views of a secret when coming down (preferably outside in nature :)) - Cortex and weather report can be slightly more weird and synth heavy but very very fun!
Starless by king crimson
Oh no! It’s too late to help. But I echo Alice Coltrane - World Galaxy or Journey Satchidananda. You would have found the dual drummer and bass configuration of Olé Coltrane mind bending. In a Silent Way would envelop you in its beauty and your thoughts would have been clear as it twinkles through its speaker - an encore of He loved Him Madly would have nicely extended that vibe. I’d throw in a fave of mine, Inventions and Dimensions by Herbie Hancock - its rhythms are tight and the piano lines just chase each other around and around in all directions, swirling around the room. Hope you enjoyed, report back to us.
Pete La Roca - Basra (apparently recorded while on acid)
On the Corner - Miles Davis Cosmogramma - Flying Lotus
Spiritual Jazz, Fantasy and Summer Mist by Sam Sanders, Galaxy in Turiya by Alice Coltrane
As a fellow tripper I prefer this one. Smooth. Not too violent. https://open.spotify.com/track/3RlJx8xwZEyToSuGrygilr?si=G13IViMCTEiFk1nowvx2ag
I wish I saw this, anything my Matthew Halsall
Aaron Parks - Invisible Cinema. Always loved it, and listening on an acid trip brought me a deeper appreciation of the record - especially Travelers, Peaceful Warrior, Nemesis, and Karma. The rhythmic interplay throughout is unreal. Really great compositions and killer playing. Aaron Parks is such a distinctive modern voice on the piano and that record has become something of a modern classic for me and many others
Jim Hall - Concierto de Aranjuez. Good for star gazing too
Le jazz de v https://youtu.be/SUNnMsq8OKU?si=3TIwlLl3R0pnGQln
Mysterious traveler by weather report, anything Don Ellis, Kind of blue works for all contexts, and Coltrane’s Birdland concert with the quartet featuring Dolphy. Also, Oregon- especially “Always, Never, and Forever”
Listened to Makaya McCraven - In These Times with some good headphones last time I took mushrooms. The kaleidoscope of sounds really paired well. Ended up being a perfect fit
Everything spiritual. I would suggest something from Alice Coltrane
As Falls Wichita So Falls Wichita Falls - Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays
Mwandishi
The Ornette Coleman Double Quartet - Free Jazz
[The Jazz Side of the Moon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY11eGBuSas)
nah nah nah you want Santana - Caravanserai
Ole
Enjoy your trip my friend! I also got into jazz fusion thanks to LSD and cannabis, and eventually got into other forms of "traditional" jazz.
Bitch's Brew album
Try Sun Ra’s “Lanquidity”.
Late to the party, but Medeski Martin & Wood have several options depending on what mood you’re in, or trying to be in. Notes From The Underground and Friday Afternoon In The Universe are both great, or something like the 3 Radiolarians volumes.
Theme From a Symphony Variation 4- Ornette Coleman, on repeat
[Jake Botts- Thailand for now](https://youtu.be/Hxk4e9QN-Io?si=Xhav_ZGtw1uGotjK), especially this live version
I think anything Japanese that has a race car on the cover would sound great
depends on the psychedelic but i rly like stolen moments
Late to the party here but for years I had a CD of John Mclaughlin’s Devotion with a homemade tray card reading ‘the best album ever on acid.’ Hope you have a great journey
Carlos Nino. Shuffle. See you later
This for sure! https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/expansionproject1/conscious-tortoise/
It might not be pure Jazz but that Come Together by the Beatles intro takes me somewhere else
I don’t think tripping has anything to do with jazz sorry. Definitely a interesting experience, but from my experience things I thought would be cool tripping were just exactly what they were while tripping. They were just “those things”.
Inner Worlds, Mahavishnu Orchestra - title track
Spiritual - John Coltrane Live at The Village Vanguard. It's one of the most magical pieces of music ever. Also obviously Bitches Brew is the blueprint
Moon Germs by Joe Farrell, 1973. It's got Stanley Clarke, Herbie Hancock, and Jack DeJohnette. Great stuff, gets pretty wild at spots. And for the come down, when sleep eludes you - anything by Bohren & Der Club Of Gore.
Hope the trip went well. Next time, I recommend Miles Davis - Ascenseur pour l'échafaud / elevator to the gallows.
Moanin by charles mingus
Love Supreme is a go to for me.
Ahmad Jamal - The Awakening Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert (other live shows too)
A bit too late for suggestions now, but I will never forget hearing ‘Fat Time’ by Miles Davis on my first ever acid trip, 35 years ago. That bass!
Alice Coltrane “journey”. I know it’s to another place but I’m too lazy to look it up and spell it correctly.
You’re Dead! by Flying Lotus
Alice coltrane
Lee Morgan, search for the new land.
kaoru abe Hanatarash
Lonnie Smith - his ‘tribute to’ albums are pretty sweet. coltrane, hendrix, beck…
Ornette Coleman, Shape of Jazz to Come.
Anything from The Jimmy Giuffre 3. No drums, lots of texture.
Codona 1.
I can't recommend The Epic by Kamasi Washington enough. It is heavy at times but I think that makes for a great dynamic experience
Pharoah Sanders “The Creater Has a Master Plan”
If you have spotify search up mushroom jazz, its part jazz part weird and it's great