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ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW July 27, 2020

Various Artists: Soul Love Now: The Black Fire Records Story 1975-1993

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By CHRIS MAY

The significance of this superb compilation is summed up by a fuzzy b&w photo inside the twenty-eight page accompanying booklet. It shows Oneness Of Juju gathered round a twenty-foot replica of the Statue of Liberty in their hometown, Richmond, Virginia in 1976. You can just make out the expressions of optimism and, yes, patriotism on the ...

ARTICLE: BUILDING A JAZZ LIBRARY July 23, 2020

Lift Every Voice And Sing: Twenty #BlackLives Albums That Matter

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By CHRIS MAY

Jazz has been inextricably linked with social and political protest since at least the late 1930s, when Billie Holiday made famous the leftist songwriter and poet Abel Meeropol's “Strange Fruit." The song, which has a power to move that is undiminished by familiarity, likens the bodies of lynched African Americans to fruit hanging in trees.

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