Stuart Baker

Large-format hardback from Soul Jazz on the sleeves of Folkways Records, most by designer Ronald Clyne: hundreds of covers for Woody Guthrie, John Cage, Lead Belly, Allen Ginsberg and many more.

At the start of the 1960s, jazz entered a unique period of revolution as African-American musicians redefined the art form in the context of the Civil Rights Movement, Afro-centric rhythm and thought and an ideology of black economic empowerment. John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler and others developed a new cosmology of sound that was as revolutionary as the social and political changes that took place in America throughout the decade. From the musical explorat…

Hardcover, 297x297mm, 224pp. Over 15 years after the groundbreaking first volume, Soul Jazz Records returns with Freedom, Rhythm & Sound: Chapter Two - a stunning visual documentation of revolutionary jazz artwork from the 1960s-1980s. Originally compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker, this expanded second volume dives deeper into the radical graphic universe of independently published jazz records. The story begins with the first generation of African American jazz artists who transformed…