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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Understanding the potential for violence during these protests — many Black Americans plan ... of protest has brought us to jazz music and its universal power to unite. That unity did not ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Duke Ellington, a giant in jazz history, was more than just a composer and bandleader—he was a cultural architect whose music told the stories of Black excellence, struggle ...