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.

BluesSpeak
The Best of the Original Chicago Blues Annual
EDITED BY LINCOLN T. BEAUCHAMP JR.
This incomparable anthology collects articles, interviews, fi ction, and poetry
from the Original Chicago Blues Annual, one of music history’s most

http://uhjazzjebell.myblog.it/archive/2009/07/18/umbria-jazz-presenta-una-“sezione-sperimentale”-con-il-colle.html

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.

National Endowment for the Arts Announces the 2010 NEA Jazz Masters
Nation's highest honor in jazz is bestowed on eight living legends