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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.
Released to coincide with the new book by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker on Soul Jazz Records, this album is jam-packed with super rare, deep jazz from artists many of which all feature heavily in the new book. These include Mary Lou Williams, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Sun Ra, Phil Cohran and many more.

This recording is taken from the legendary Hamburg music hall, Onkel Pö. After opening in October 1970, it became on the the venues for Jazz in Europe, participating in the New Jazz Festival at Hamburg.

This recording is taken from the legendary Hamburg music hall, Onkel Pö. After opening in October 1970, it became on the the venues for Jazz in Europe…

Sous les pavés, le jazz”, a compilation to celebrate in jazz, but also in blues, rock, soul, funk & folk, in joy and good humor, the events of May 68! Listened to and approved by Daniel Cohn-Bendit! A jazz-dominated compilation including titles exclusively recorded or published in 1968 and emblematic of the period, musically and ideologically.