Impulse Records: Music, Message And The Moment (60th Anniversary Edition 4 LP Box Set + Booklet + Vinyl Slip Mat)

Numbered, Limited Edition 60th Anniversary Deluxe 4LP Box Set!
Featuring John Coltrane, Quincy Jones, Charles Mingus & Many More Legendary Impulse Artists!
Includes Booklet & Vinyl Slip Mat!
Pressed at QRP!

Celebrating 60 years of Impulse Records. A Deluxe 4-LP Box Set with tracks by John Coltrane, Quincy Jones, Charles Mingus, Oliver Nelson, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp and other legendary Impulse Artists. This release includes liner notes by Greg Tate and A.B. Spellman. The LP box is housed in a high-quality archival portfolio cast with a museum drop front, includes a magazine style booklet featuring original impulse! ads and artist photos, as well as an impulse! vinyl slip mat.

Orange and black. Fire and ebony. Fury and pride. Wearing its signature colors proudly and raising its exclamation point high, Impulse! Records was the go-to label for music that harnessed the searching and political stand-taking of the Sixties. Launched in 1961, Impulse grew to become an inherent part of the era's velocity as well as its volume, pulling jazz into the age of Black Power, Afrocentricity, and Spiritual Expansion. In its balance of tradition and transition, it bridged the golden age of jazz, that brief window from the late Fifties to the Seventies when players representing every jazz era were alive and active - from Louis Armstrong to Albert Ayler, from the legends of lore to a new generation of energy players. Impulse treated all its musicians as innovators, revolutionaries even - from swing and bebop, to free and Afrofuturist.

The performances on Impulse Records: Music, Message and the Moment draw their staying power from a wide embrace of styles and sounds, as well as a tight focus on a historic moment when the promise of change was in the air and the message of racial harmony was in the music. Today that music has lost none of its relevance: the promise still deferred, the message still on time.

...A collection celebrating Impulse's deep-digging support of artists who scored We The People's SingFight-ing for social political and artists' self-determination in a critical time of beatdowns, breakthroughs and cosmically-centered aspirations. -Musician/Essayist Greg Tate

In many ways, this collection is a mural in sound of the activist's stimulation of the Sixties and Seventies...we need this scope of sound again: We need the horns to scream of stout resistance, and we need the bands to sing to us of the righteous beauty of our souls. -Journalist/Author A.B. Spellman

Features

• Numbered, Limited Edition
• Deluxe 4LP Box Set
• Liner Notes by Greg Tate & A.B. Spellman
• LP Box Housed in a High-Quality Archival Portfolio Cast With Museum Drop Front
• Magazine-Style Booklet - Original Impulse! Ads & Artist Photos
• Impulse! Slip Mat
• Pressed at Quality Record Pressings

Selections

LP1

Side One:

1. The John Coltrane Quartet - Africa

Side Two:

1. Max Roach - Garvey's Ghost
2. Quincy Jones and his Orchestra - Hard Sock Dance
3. John Coltrane - Up 'Gainst the Wall
4. Elvin Jones/Jimmy Garrison Sextet - Just Us Blues

LP2

Side One:

1. John Coltrane - Alabama
2. Charles Mingus - Better Get Hit in Yo' Soul
3. Shirley Scott Trio - Freedom Dance
4. Yusef Lateef - Sister Mamie

Side Two:

1. Archie Shepp - Malcolm, Malcolm - Semper Malcolm
2. Stanley Turrentine - Good Lookin' Out
3. Earl Hines - Black and Tan Fantasy
4. Oliver Nelson - The Rights of All

LP3

Side One:

1. Pharoah Sanders - The Creator Has a Master Plan (edit)
2. John Coltrane & Alice Coltrane - Reverend King

Side Two:

1. The Ahmad Jamal Trio - The Awakening
2. Albert Ayler - Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe
3. Charlie Haden - We Shall Overcome

LP4

Side One:

1. Alice Coltrane - Blue Nile
2. Pharoah Sanders - Astral Traveling
3. Archie Shepp - Blues for Brother George Jackson
4. Michael White - Lament (Mankind)

Side Two:

1. Dewey Redman - Imani
2. Marion Brown - Bismillahi 'Rrahmani 'Rrahim
3. John Handy - Hard Work