Singers Joan Colasso and Senebella talk about their upcoming concert next Friday June 4, at Northeastern Illinois University - Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies 700 E Oakwood Blvd, Chicago, IL

This incomparable anthology collects articles, interviews, fiction, and poetry from the Original Chicago Blues Annual, one of music history's most significant periodical blues publications. Founded and operated from 1989 to 1995 by African American musician and entrepreneur Lincoln T. Beauchamp Jr., OCBA gave voice to the blues community and often frankly addressed contentious issues within the blues such as race, identity, prejudice, wealth, gender, and inequity.
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See a live interview with Chicago Beau on WGN or on next page.

Freedom, Rhythm and Sound ALBUM & BOOK
Revolutionary Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement 1963-82
Soul Jazz Records

This book is OUT NOW on Soul Jazz Records is available to buy HERE!
A seriously deep selection of Jazz record covers in a superb new deluxe 200-plus page book by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker. Featuring Tribe, ESP, Art Ensemble, Sun Ra, Coltrane - it's all here!

This album features the work of revolutionary jazz artists who created new radical music infused with the values of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Self-determination, economic power and musical freedoms explode as the avant-garde collided with Black Power and Afro-centricity.

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Nearly opposite to the billboard pop (Simply Red, Steely Dan), Umbria Jazz presents this year a "experimental section" which is perhaps the most ambitious of all the long history of the event.