A new jazz style emerged in the late 1960s that wasn't an extension of hard bop or free jazz. For a brief seven or eight years—following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968 and the onset of fusion in the mid-1970s—a new Black power expression wrapped in Pan-Africanism appeared in the works of Black journalists, books on the Black c…
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