Music

Basic Blue at CICS
By Rahsaan Clark Morris

Live in Vienna Austria at the Porgy and Bess Club.

Ari Brown at Malcolm X College Kwanzaa 1.1.11 performance from Floyd Webb on Vimeo.

From http://eyejazz.tv

http://www.youtube.com/v/FYhVq-5Y0HA

The GBMP monthly radio podcast hosted by Chicago DJ Big Will continues. Every month GBMP present a programs of music by Chicago and Illinois artists. Listen to the radio podcast here. This month we feature Women and Bands of Illinois

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.

May 2, 2008
By NATE CHINEN

May 2, 2008
Four Decades of Music That Redefined Free
By NATE CHINEN, New York Tims
May 2, 2008

“First of all, No. 1, there’s original music, only.”

Three Chicago dance records (Farley "Jackmaster" Funk's "Love Can't Turn around," Raze's "Jack the Grove" and Steve "Silk" Hurley's "Jack Your Body") hit the top 10 in Europe the Summer 1986, birthing the house music craze.

In August 1922 Louis Armstrong relocated to Chicago. Spring 1923 he made his first recording as the trumpeter in King Oliver's Jazz Band.