Friday night is alright for jazz. Here’s the exuberant Latin grooves of the opening track “Bones” from the extraordinary album “Spirits” released by NZ jazz ensemble The Circling Sun on UK label Soundway Records last year.

“Spirits” features lush and sometimes Cosmic/ Kosmiche astral jazz elements as well as spiritual/modal jazz and the Latin rhythms here. The album is recommended if you like Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders and Alice Coltrane, or the more contemporary and funky Jazz Is Dead series of albums for that matter, but also very approachable if you are a novice to this particular musical world.

Been playing a lot of jazz this past year since the portal back to that earlier part of my music listening timeline was blown wide open by the Rich Ruth album “I Survived, It’s Over”, so if you dig this check out Rich Ruth too. “Spirits” hits the spot.