Stretching out with other worldly and US jazz influenced music

@whart, 

I’ll thrown down one I mentioned in the earlier thread: Cochemea Gastelum- All My Relations. I think it qualifies as "other worldly" both in the spiritual sense-and the "other culture" sense- Native American chanting, percussion and some wicked horn playing through a wah-wah. 

Agreed. I hear every form of percussion in this album from the original traditional indigenous americans native different cadences of drumming to some very similar to north and south India’s sounding finger drumming. This is an album of music one might have to listen to a few times to get it. Very off the beaten path, fantastic stuff. 

It’s interesting, fascinating that you would bring up american indian traditional indigenous music culture as it was america’s own Charley Patton the Grandfather of Delta Blues was of indian descent and is said to gather a lot of his rhythms from that community to create his Delta Blues.

I'm down with the Delta blues- I'm partial to Skip James -the original tracks, not the re-do's once he was re-discovered. I know Revenant/John Fahey did a huge retrospective of Charlie Patton-won a slew of Grammys for it, not that awards are a measure, but it was notable when released. I find the young "blues detectives" who hunted down some of the original bluesmen to be fascinating-- they weren't all accredited scholars, but they knew the music from the '78s. 

@tablejockey 

How about  Jazz Harpist Dorothy Ashby? Way ahead of her time.

Dorothy Ashby - Wikipedia

I have a couple of her LP's including what's considered her magnum opus- "The Rubaiyat of Dorothy Ashby.

Wow! I couldn't agree more. What an unknown hidden jewel (for me) of a find. Completely, way off the beaten path, undiscovered and way, way ahead of its time. Simply an outstanding piece of music. I checked to see if this was available in cd form on Discogs and it was not at this time, only on LP. Nice post, and this is exactly why I started this thread. Thank you @tablejockey. 

@whart, 

I find the young "blues detectives" who hunted down some of the original bluesmen to be fascinating-- they weren't all accredited scholars, but they knew the music from the '78s. 

You're making me think of the time I was a little kid and found my Dad's old 78's. And funny enough, they were mostly 'old blue eyes' Frank Sinatra's recordings from, about the time of WWII.

@tablejockey @tyray 
I'm streaming The Rubaiyat of Dorothy Ashby as I write this.  This is great stuff!  Reminds me a little of Alice Coltrane.  In any event, I did find the cd version of this recording on Discogs and Amazon.