In the 1960s and early 1970s, a growing number of black jazz artists began adding vocal choirs to their recording projects to give them a folk, pan-African feel. The soulful original vocals imbued their instrumentals with a spiritual or gospel congregation atmosphere and added dimension to their civil rights message. Among those who included voices on a…
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