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The 1960s Jazz Tribute to Malcolm X That Profoundly Expressed the Black Condition
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The 1960s Jazz Tribute to Malcolm X That Profoundly Expressed the Black Condition

By the late 1950s foremost musicians like Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus and John Coltrane explicitly introduced politics in their jazz, as the civil rights movement started gaining momentum in the US. Musician and author Gilad Atzmon explained it in a 2005 essay: Black Americans were calling for freedom, and jazz expressed it better than mere...