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v/a - freedom, rhythm & sound part 1 - soul jazz records - vinyl

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Genre: Jazz - Spiritual / Cosmic & Soul Jazz

1. Oliver Lake and NTU - Africa
2. Stanton Davis Ghetto and Mysticism - Space-A-Nova
3. Steve Colson and The Unity Troupe - Lateen
4. Mary Lou Williams - Miss DD
5. Joe Henderson - Foregone Conclusion
6. Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Old Time Religion
7. Philip Cohran and The Artistic Heritage Ensemble - The African Look
8. Gary Bartz NTU Troop - The Drinking Song
9. Pheeroan Ak Laff - 3 In 1
10. The Hastings Street Jazz Experience - Yes Lord
11. Ralph Thomas - Big Spliff

This album coincides with the release of the massive 200page plus hardback deluxe book, Freedom, Rhythm and Sound, Revolutionary Jazz original Cover Art compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker released on Soul Jazz Records at the same time featuring the cover artwork of many seminal revolutionary jazz albums created between 1965-80.

Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and the civil rights movement of the 1960s loom large as self-determination, economic power and musical freedom led to revolutionary jazz artists finding new paths - both musical and economic.

Concurrent with the emergence of the counter culture and underground rock movement in the 1960s and years before the D-I-Y cultural revolution of punk in the 1970s, Sun Ra, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and others 'took control' of their own work by recording, releasing and distributing their own music themselves.

This album that is released alongside the book features many of the major artists who make up the book as well as many hidden gems of records made on very small run cottage-industry jazz labels from this period - the original DIY records!