Pharoah Sanders’ third Impulse! album, 1969’s Karma, is a milestone of the Spiritual Jazz movement and a natural progression in the sonic exploration that Sanders, along with John and Alice Coltrane, had spearheaded over the previous five years. “The Creator Has a Master Plan” is as close as Spiritual Jazz comes to having its own anthem.

Verve’s Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging.