New Day Jazz
Justin Desmangles
Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.
This is triumphant music.
Modern jazz has continued in this tradition, singing the songs of a more complicated urban existence. When life itself offers no order and meaning, the musician creates an order and meaning from the sounds of the earth which flow through his instrument.
It is no wonder that so much of the search for identity among American Negroes was championed by Jazz musicians. Long before the modern essayists and scholars wrote of racial identity as a problem for a multiracial world, musicians were returning to their roots to affirm that which was stirring within their souls.
Much of the power of our Freedom Movement in the United States has come from this music. It has strengthened us with its sweet rhythms when courage began to fail. It has calmed us with its rich harmonies when spirits were down.
And now, Jazz is exported to the world. For in the particular struggle of the Negro in America there is something akin to the universal struggle of modern man. Everybody has the Blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith.
In music, especially this broad category called Jazz, there is a stepping stone towards all of these.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Opening Address to the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival
Genre
Jazz
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| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Mingus | Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting | Blues and Roots | Atlantic | February 4, 1959 |
| Charles Mingus | Cryin' Blues | Blues and Roots | Atlantic | February 4, 1959 |
| Sterling Brown | Long Gone | Anthology of Negro Poets | Folkways | c. 1940 |
| Bill Henderson | Joey | Bill Henderson Sings | VeeJay | c. 1959 |
| John Coltrane | Route 4 | Dakar | Prestige | April 20, 1957 |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Sonny Clark | Deep Night | Cool Struttin' | Blue Note | January 5, 1958 |
| Bill Henderson | Sweet Georgia Brown | Bill Henderson | VeeJay | c. 1960 |
| Horace Silver | Doodlin' | Horace Silver Quintet, Vol. 1 | Blue Note | November 13, 1954 |
| Margaret Walker | John Henry | Anthology of Negro Poets | Folkways | c. 1954 |
| John Coltrane | Mr. Day | Coltrane Plays the Blues | Atlantic | October 24, 1960 |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Charles Mingus | Diane | Mingus Dynasty | Columbia | November 1, 1959 |
| Charles Mingus | Song with Orange | Mingus Dynasty | Columbia | November 1, 1959 |
| Kenneth Patchen | 23rd Street Runs Into Heaven | Selected Poems of Kenneth Patchen | Folkways | c. 1960 |
| Kenneth Patchen | The Lions of Fire Shall Have Their Hunting | Selected Poems of Kenneth Patchen | Folkways | c. 1960 |
| Oliver Nelson with Eric Dolphy | Images | Straight Ahead | New Jazz | March 1, 1961 |
| Nat King Cole | Unforgettable | Unforgettable | Capitol | c. 1952 |
| Miles Davis | Stella by Starlight | Jazz Track | Columbia | May 26, 1958 |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Nat King Cole | Mona Lisa | Unforgettable | Capitol | c. 1950 |
| Johnny Hartman | I Just Dropped by to Say Hello | I Just Dropped by to Say Hello | Impulse | October 1963 |
| Hank Mobley | My Sin | Hank Mobley Quartet | Blue Note | March 27, 1955 |
| Milt Jackson | Lillie | Wizard of the Vibes | Blue Note | April 7, 1952 |
| Claude McKay | St. Issac's Church Leningrad | Anthology of Negro Poets | Folkways | c. 1940 |
| Claude McKay | The Tropics in New York | Anthology of Negro Poets | Folkways | c. 1940 |
| Abbey Lincoln | Afro-Blue | Abbey is Blue | Riverside | c. 1959 |
| Abbey Lincoln | Little Niles | It's Magic! | Riverside | Summer 1958 |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Sonny Clark | Cool Struttin' | Cool Struttin' | Blue Note | January 5, 1958 |
| Sterling Brown | Ma Rainey | Anthology of Negro Poets | Folkways | c. 1940 |
| Charles Mingus | Tensions | Blues and Roots | Atlantic | February 4, 1959 |
| John Coltrane | Blues to You | Coltrane Plays the Blues | Atlantic | October 24, 1960 |
| John Beecher | Screened | Report to the Stockholders and Other Poems | Folkways | tba |
| Oliver Nelson with Eric Dolphy | Alto-itis | Screamin' the Blues | New Jazz | May 27, 1960 |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Amiri Baraka | Dope | Before Columbus Foundation Poets Read | Folkways | c. 1980 |
| Sonia Sanchez | To Fanon | tba | tba | tba |
| Nancy Wilson | I'm Afraid the Masquerade is Over | tba | tba | tba |
| Peggy Lee | The Days of Wine and Roses | tba | tba | tba |