Impulse Records: Music Message & The Moment / Var Impulse Records: Music Message & The Moment / Var CD

Two CD collection celebrating 60 years of Impulse Records. Includes tracks by John Coltrane, Quincy Jones, Charles Mingus, Oliver Nelson, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp and other legendary Impulse Artists. Orange and black. Fire and ebony. Fury and pride. Wearing it's signature colors proudly and raising it's 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 it's volume, pulling jazz into the age of Black Power, Afrocentricity, and Spiritual Expansion. In it's 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 it's 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 it's relevance: the promise still deferred, the message still on time.

1. Africa - By John Coltrane 2. Garvey's Ghost [Feat. Carlos "Potato" Valdez ; Carlos "Totico" Eugenio ; Abbey Lincoln] - By Max Roach 3. Hard Sock Dance - By Quincy Jones ; His Orchestra 4. Up 'Gainst the Wall - By John Coltrane 5. Just Us Blues [Feat. McCoy Tyner] - By Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison Sextet 6. Alabama - By John Coltrane 7. Better Get Hit in Yo' Soul - By Charles Mingus 8. Freedom Dance - By Shirley Scott Trio 9. Sister Mamie - By Yusef Lateef 10. Malcolm, Malcolm - Semper Malcolm - By Archie Shepp 11. Good Lookin' Out - By Stanley Turrentine 12. Black and Tan Fantasy - By Earl Hines 13. The Rights of All - By Oliver Nelson 14. The Creator Has a Master Plan (Edit) - By Pharoah Sanders 15. Reverend King - By John Coltrane ; Alice Coltrane 16. The Awakening - By Ahmad Jamal Trio 17. Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe - By Albert Ayler 18. We Shall Overcome - By Charlie Haden 19. Blue Nile - By Alice Coltrane 20. Astral Traveling - By Pharoah Sanders 21. Blues for Brother George Jackson - By Archie Shepp 22. Lament (Mankind) - By Michael White 23. Imani - By Dewey Redman 24. Bismillahi 'Rrahmani 'Rrahim - By Marion Brown 25. Hard Work - By John Handy