Soul Jazz Records are issuing a new flexibound paperback edition of their long out of print ground-breaking deluxe art book ‘Freedom, Rhythm & Sound: Revolutionary Jazz Cover Art 1965-83’. This large format 200+ page book is edited by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker (founder of Soul Jazz Records).
The book is released to coincide with the new major art exhibition, ‘Soul Of A Nation: Art In The Age Of Black Power’, which is at Tate Modern this summer (showing for three months). The exhibition then travels to the USA showing at Crystal Bridges Museum and Brooklyn Museum of American Art in 2018. Soul Jazz Records are also releasing a new album, ‘Soul Of A Nation: Afro-Centric Visions In The Age Of Black Power’, to coincide with the exhibition.
The book is a unique collection of cover artwork of revolutionary jazz released in the USA in the 1970s, a time of great political and social importance for African-American artists. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and John Coltrane loom large as self-determination, economic power and musical freedom led to artists finding new paths, both musical and economic.
The book provides a large introduction contextualizing the music and artwork, as well as interviews with many of the people involved. Alongside the musicians mentioned above, these include Kelan Phil Cohran, Charles Tyler, Steve Reid, Mary Lou Williams, Horace Tapscott, Lloyd McNeil, Phil Ranelin, Marcus Belgrave, Paris Smith, Jayne Cortez, Joe McPhee, Weldon Irvine, Shamek Farrah, Cecil
McBee, Stanley Cowell, Tribe, The Last Poets, The Pharoahs and many others. 40 years on, their works are exemplary in their untamed DIY energy and graphic boldness.
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