I've been fairly obsessed with Promises, an album by Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, and the London Symphony Orchestra that came out in 2021. Maybe "obsessed" is a strong word, but I put it on at least once every few weeks or so and have resisted filing the LP away with the rest of my records, leaving it at the front of the pile on the floor so I'm reminded daily that it exists. It's a beautiful and unique piece of music, one I've heard several people describe as "transcendent."
I like jazz, but I'm a bit naive about it. I have my favorites, and the 30 or 40 jazz LPs I rotate between regularly are heavy on iconic artists like John Coltrane and Miles Davis. Those two performers alone have so many albums that I have not fully explored all of their catalogs, and my knowledge of many others in the genre gets sketchy and slim fast. Because of Promises, I've been digging into more of Pharoah Sanders' back catalog. I probably already knew this, but I soon realized that he had played with Coltrane, and I began to revisit some of those records he played on with a new perspective.