In 1969, pianist Gene Russell and percussionist Dick Schory founded a revolutionary record label in Oakland, Calif., that personified a new sophisticated approach to jazz that embraced the era's black power and pan-African movements. The Black Jazz label featured young black artists and jazz that wasn't entirely acoustic but certainly not fusion. The mu…
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