New Releases from Sonny Rollins and Charles Mingus Reveal Crucial Conceptions of Political Art

Subject

Great Jazz Musicians

Description

Jazz and the civil-rights movement were closely intertwined. Two musicians whose work was at the forefront of this intersection, Sonny Rollins and Charles Mingus, have new releases this month of rediscovered concert and radio performances that relate to the struggle—one symbolically, one explicitly.

Creator

Richard Brody

Source

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/new-releases-from-sonny-rollins-and-charles-mingus-reveal-crucial-conceptions-of-political-art

Publisher

newyorker.com

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