Forty four years after its publication in French, Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli's thought-provoking, fiercely intellectual book Free Jazz/Black Power finally finds its way into English, ...

whose Free Jazz Black Power (1971)—published in English for the first time by University Press of Mississippi in 2015—viewed all jazz and all criticism through a political and economic prism. The free ...

Through Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp and others, free jazz started tapping into black consciousness ... opus with strong transcendental power. The Ensemble Al-Salaam, ‘Malika ...

reflect a new jazz era, when many of the African-American artists turned away from the mainstream both musically and economically. They embraced the ideas of the Civil Rights and Black Power ...

but especially in jazz, where new and musically transgressive styles were combining with the political defiance that characterized the developing Black Power movement. The AACM is at once a ...

Like many revolutionary anthems past, this one is the work of young jazz-trained musicians ... But at the end of the 1960s, just as calls for Black Power were motivating musicians to create ...

Soul Jazz Records’ companion to the Tate Modern ... As the Tate Modern’s recent Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power exhibition attests, a profound movement was taking shape ...

Essafi’s documentary has a similar aesthetic to Göran Olsson’s 2011 doc “The Black Power Mixtape 1967-75.” It’s a film that Essafi admires a lot, and that jazz music links what was ...

In the intervening years, Coltrane’s musical conception had shifted toward what can conveniently be called “free jazz ... meant something particular to black Americans in the nineteen ...

Jazz Fest and Black Power." In an email Walton sent about the exhibit she wrote, "As protests continue to break out across the U.S., such anger seems very far from the experience of thousands of ...

And Randy Weston has a way of talking about history, and especially diasporic Black history ... via interpretive segue to the Albert Ayler free-jazz anthem "Ghosts," soulfully performed by ...