Soul Jazz Presents: The Best Black Jazz Records BNPL Excluded Art Blakey and his Jazz

Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers went into the studio with Thelonious Monk to record a one-off album for Atlantic

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Kathleen Brennan

and the music feels like a profound act of witnessing this country

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Soul Jazz Presents: The Best Black Jazz Records BNPL Excluded Art Blakey and his JazzThis album brings together some of the finest music ever released on Black Jazz Records which in its short four year history between 1971 and 1975, released over 20 superlative albums which all successfully blending spiritual jazz, funk and soul jazz of the highest calibre. Similar to other independent jazz labels at the time including Strata East Records and Tribe Records, Black Jazz focussed on a number of key artists, most of whom first established