If You're Not Part of the Solution: Soul Politics: If You're Not Part Of The Solution: Soul Politics & Spirituality In Jazz 1967-1975 / Various - VINYL LP

If You're Not Part of the Solution: Soul Politics: If You're Not Part Of The Solution: Soul Politics & Spirituality In Jazz 1967-1975 / Various - VINYL LPTitle: If You're Not Part Of The Solution: Soul Politics & Spirituality In Jazz 1967 1975 Various Artist: If You're Not Part of the Solution: Soul Politics Label: Beat Goes Public BGP Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 029667006118 Genre: Soul R & B Release Date: 2019 05 03 Number of Discs: 2 Additional Details: UNITED KINGDOM IMPORT In the late 60s jazz was at a turning point. Soul music had taken much of it's black audience and rock's intellectualisation

Title: If You're Not Part Of The Solution: Soul Politics & Spirituality In Jazz 1967-1975 / Various
Artist: If You're Not Part of the Solution: Soul Politics
Label: Beat Goes Public BGP
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 029667006118
Genre: Soul/R & B
Release Date: 2019-05-03
Number of Discs: 2
Additional Details: UNITED KINGDOM - IMPORT

In the late 60s jazz was at a turning point. Soul music had taken much of it's black audience and rock's intellectualisation was eating up it's support amongst college students. The usual story told is that jazz split between those who went out and those who tried to make people dance. The story is more nuanced, and 'If You're Not Part Of The Solution' tries to tell that story. It was a period of radicalisation for Black America: a disproportionate number of young African American men were being shipped to Vietnam, the inner cities of Detroit, Washington, Los Angeles, Newark and more were ablaze and, in 1968, Dr Martin Luther King was gunned down in Memphis. There was a sense that something had to be done and with this in mind, many outlets both political and spiritual sprung up. As a central part of the community, jazz musicians took their cues and their music reflected this. "If You're Not Part Of The Solution" draws upon the melting pot of ideas that can be picked up in veteran Hammond player Johnny Smith's call for 'Black Feelings', or the cosmic wanderings of the obscure Philadelphia group Catalyst. Funk in all it's forms can be found; be it the relentless bass rhythm of the title track, or the Miles Davis-influenced shifting groove of Johnny Lytle's 'Tawhid'. It was an exciting period and the music is caught up in that, but above all there is reverence for the greats such as Davis and John Coltrane who are the pillars of a newly confident African American culture. In 2019 the jazz revival spearheaded by Kamasi Washington in the USA and a host of young London based groups - Sons Of Kemet, Ezra Collective, etc - mix a variety of sounds to keep their music relevant for a younger generation. "If You're Not Part Of The Solution" explores where this happened first. Double LP comes in a deluxe gatefold sleeve

Tracks:
1.1 If You're Not Part of the Solution, You're Part of the Problem -
1.2 Joe Henderson Quintet
1.3 Black Feeling - Johnny Hammond Smith
1.4 Celestial Bodies - Catalyst
1.5 John Coltrane - Clifford Jordan Quartet
1.6 H.N.I.C. - Harold Vick
2.1 Tawhid - Johnny Lytle
2.2 Bitches Brew - Eddie Jefferson
2.3 Africans Unite - Gary Bartz Ntu Troop
2.4 Warriors of Peace - Azar Lawrence
2.5 Let's Make Peace and Stop the War - Funk Inc