As Serious As Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution 1957-1977

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As Serious As Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution 1957-1977An essential masterpiece of jazz history by the renowned photographer and music historian, with a new foreword by Richard Williams. In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established black music as the true vanguard of American culture. Placing the achievements of African American artists such as Albert

Throughout

delves into music’s most influential genres to uncover the innovators and agitators who changed music history forever

sounds like it could have been recorded by a psychedelic rock band in Los Angeles in 1969

and beautiful result of cultural circumstance

and starred in—Barbara Loden turned in a groundbreaking work of American independent cinema

Merriweather Post Pavilion is the eighth studio album by American experimental pop group Animal Collective

town and country

it was the man Cézanne called “only an eye

a young Parisian who aspires to be an actress but instead ends up a prostitute

Audio commentary featuring director Mike Leigh

dreamily lyrical the next

The shots are accompanied by entries from the legendary Andy Warhol Diaries