Gilles Peterson And Stuart Baker - Freedom, Rhythm And Sound: Revolutionary Jazz Original Cover Art 1965-83

· 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, pre-internet, these small-run (sometimes as low as
500 copies), self-made sleeves are graphically bold and radical.
· ‘Freedom, Rhythm & Sound: Revolutionary Jazz Original Cover Art
1965-83’ is the first ever collection of this fascinating goldmine of album
art, which represents the first wave of inspired independent production
within popular music. The book includes a large introduction contextualising
the music and artwork as well as features on many of the people involved.
Alongside the musicians mentioned above these include Rashied Ali, Steve
Reid, Mary Lou Williams, Horace Tapscott, Lloyd McNeil, Tribe, The
Last Poets, The Pharoahs, Philip Cohran, Black Artists Group and
many others.
· Gilles Peterson is a respected BBC radio broadcaster and worldwide
club DJ who has probably done more to promote jazz music in all its forms
than anyone else over the last twenty years. Alongside his work as
broadcaster and DJ, his long association with events such as the Montreux
Jazz Festival and Jazz Britannia as well as running the record labels,
Talking Loud and Brownswood, have given him a unique role in the
world BOOK - SJR218 of jazz and beyond.

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