Jazz’s Existential Expression Part I

Here is the African American Timeline of Music for reference

[A Great Day In Harlem] (https://youtu.be/ZVYZyNBpnGg?si=JewcIKbRSc-7zzR0) on YouTube

A Great Day In Hip Hop 1998 by Gordon Parks

Playlist

  1. Afro-Blue by Abbey Lincoln on Abbey Is Blue (Craft)
  2. Straight No Chaser by Thelonious Monk on Genius of Modern Music (Vol. 2) (Blue Note)
  3. Un Poco Loco (1998 Remaster) [The Rudy Van Gelder Edition] by Bud Powell on The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1 (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (Blue Note)
  4. It Might As Well Be Spring by Sarah Vaughan on The Divine Sarah Vaughan: The Columbia Years 1949-1953 (Sony)
  5. Along Came Betty by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers on Moanin' (Blue Note)
  6. Summertime by Miles Davis on Porgy and Bess (Sony)
  7. The Little Things That Mean So Much by Carmen McRae on After Glow (Verve)
  8. So What by Miles Davis on Kind of Blue (Sony)
  9. Eventually by Ornette Coleman on The Shape of Jazz to Come (Atlantic)
  10. I Got Thunder (And It Rings) by Abbey Lincoln on The World Is Falling Down (Crystal Version) (Decca)
  11. Lonesome Lover by Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln & Coleridge Perkinson on It's Time (UMG)