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 ...

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 ...

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 ...