ABOUT THIS ITEM

To coincide with the release of their Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker-compiled album cover art book, Soul Jazz bring together some music from inside those sleeves. 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 DIY 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. The record sleeves of this era are as iconic and historically unique as the music itself and a striking reflection of the time; pre-desktop publishing, preinternet, these small-run (sometimes as low as 500 copies), self-made sleeves are graphically bold and radical. Includes tracks from The Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Sun Ra, Steve Reid, Oliver Lake, Stanton Davis, Horace Tapscott, Lloyd McNeill, Joe Henderson, Gary Bartz, The Pharoahs, Errol Parker, Alice Coltrane and Larry Gordon, amongst others.

Disc One
1. Oliver Lake - Africa
2. Stanton Davis' Ghetto/ 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 - The African Look
8. Gary Bartz - Drinking Song
9. Pheeroan Ak Laff - 3 In 1
10. The Hastings Street Jazz Experience - Yes Lord
11. Gato Barbieri & Dollar Brand - Eighty First Street
12. Ralph Thomas - Big Spliff

Disc Two
13. Archie Shepp - Attica Blues
14. Horace Tapscott - Peyote Song No. III
15. Sun Ra - Nuclear War
16. Joe McPhee And John Snyder - Shadow Sculptures
17. Errol Parker - Street Ends
18. Amina Claudine Myers - 3/4's Of 4/4
19. The Pharaohs - Freedom Road
20. Edward Larry Gordon - All Pervading
21. Michael White - The Blessing Song
22. Roy Brooks And The Artistic Truth - Black Survival
23. The Lloyd McNeill Quartet - Dig Where Dat's At