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.

Disc 1

Track name

Artist

1.Africa

John Coltrane Quartet

2.Garvey's Ghost

Max Roach

3.Hard Sock Dance

Quincy Jones and His Orchestra

4.Up 'Gainst the Wall

John Coltrane

5.Just Us Blues

Elvin Jones/Jimmy Garrison Sextet

Disc 2

Track name

Artist

1.Alabama

John Coltrane

2.Better Get Hit in Yo' Soul

Charles Mingus

3.Freedom Dance

Shirley Scott Trio

4.Sister Mamie

Yusef Lateef

5.Malcolm, Malcolm - Semper Malcolm

Archie Shepp

6.Good Lookin' Out

Stanley Turrentine

7.Black and Tan Fantasy

Earl Hines

8.The Rights of All

Oliver Nelson

Disc 3

Track name

Artist

1.The Creator Has a Master Plan (Edit)

Pharoah Sanders

2.Reverend King

John Coltrane & Alice Coltrane

3.The Awakening

Ahmad Jamal Trio

4.Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe

Albert Ayler

5.We Shall Overcome

Charlie Haden

Disc 4

Track name

Artist

1.Blue Nile

Alice Coltrane

2.Astral Traveling

Pharaoh Sanders

3.Blues for Brother George Jackson

Archie Shepp

4.Lament (Mankind)

Michael White

5.Imani

Dewey Redman

6.Bismillahi 'Rrahmani 'Rrahim

Marion Brown

7.Hard Work

John Handy

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