Freedom Sound: Rhythm & Sound – Revolutionary Jazz Cover Art Book

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Artist: Gilles Peterson & Stuart Baker |Label: Soul Jazz |Format: Book |Genre: Jazz | Book Condition: New | Cover Condition: Sealed

Freedom Sound: Rhythm & Sound – Revolutionary Jazz Cover Art Book
compiled by Gilles Peterson & Stuart Baker

Freedom, Rhythm and Sound showcases the stunning graphic works of independently published jazz record cover designs in the 1960s, 70s, 80s and beyond, from radical jazz musicians such as Sun Ra, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, The Art Ensemble of Chicago and others.
This second Freedom, Rhythm and Sound book is a new chapter, featuring hundreds more unique, rare and beautiful jazz record cover designs. This book documents the continued development in jazz as African-American artists set out on new journeys to enlightenment, heading out into Europe at the end of the 1960s.
The artwork of these (often self-produced) record cover designs during this era reflected their radical agenda, spiritual awareness and singular search for musical and personal freedoms. From raw, DIY aesthetics to lyrical and poetic illustrations, sometimes containing futuristic worlds and ancient landscapes, the designs are always bold, strikingly graphic, and most importantly capture the spirit of the music, giving them a unique beauty.
The book also includes sections on African-American poets and writers, Civil Rights and Black Power Movement leaders (Martin Luther King, Malcolm X) and early musical pioneers (Yusef Lateef, Max Roach, Art Blakey and others), all of which helped influence and shape the world of radical and spiritual jazz from the 1960s and onwards to its rebirth today.
Reviews of the first Freedom, Rhythm and Sound:
A remarkable book The New Yorker
If there can be such a thing as a revolutionary coffee table book, Freedom Rhythm & Sound is ita chance to wallow in the Afrocentric visual language of the non-mainstream black jazz vinyl of this extraordinary fertile and creative period. Eye
Like the uncompromising music they represent, all the covers broadcast a sense of bold, brazen ideology Pitchfork
A definitive account of a complex passage of cultural upheaval. The Independent

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