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  • Impulse Records: Music, Message And The Moment (Various Artists)

  • Format: CD
  • Release Date: 14/05/2021
Impulse Records: Music, Message And The Moment (Various Artists)

Impulse Records: Music, Message And The Moment (Various Artists)

  • Format: CD
  • Release Date: 14/05/2021
    • Artist: Various Artists
    • Label: Impulse Records
    • Genre: Pop
    • Number of Discs: 2
    • UPC: 602435671864
    CD 
    Price: USD $29.69

    Product Notes

    Celebrating 60 years of Impulse Records. A Deluxe 2-CD Set with tracks by John Coltrane, Quincy Jones, Charles Mingus, Oliver Nelson, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp and other legendary Impulse Artists. This release includes liner notes by Greg Tate and A.B. Spellman.

    Orange and black. Fire and ebony. Fury and pride. Wearing its signature colors proudly and raising its exclamation point high, Impulse! Records was the go-to label for music that harnessed the searching and political stand-taking of the Sixties. Launched in 1961, Impulse grew to become an inherent part of the era’s velocity as well as its volume, pulling jazz into the age of Black Power, Afrocentricity, and Spiritual Expansion. In its balance of tradition and transition, it bridged the golden age of jazz, that brief window from the late Fifties to the Seventies when players representing every jazz era were alive and active—from Louis Armstrong to Albert Ayler, from the legends of lore to a new generation of energy players. Impulse treated all its musicians as innovators, revolutionaries even—from swing and bebop, to free and Afrofuturist.

    The performances on Impulse Records: Music, Message and the Moment draw their staying power from a wide embrace of styles and sounds, as well as a tight focus on a historic moment when the promise of change was in the air and the message of racial harmony was in the music. Today that music has lost none of its relevance: the promise still deferred, the message still on time.

    IMPULSE RECORDS: MUSIC MESSAGE & THE MOMENT