The renaissance in British jazz comes as a new young and diverse generation of players began fusing jazz music with a wide-array of cultural influences to be found uniquely in London and around the UK—including Afrobeat, hip-hop, reggae, dubstep, grime, future soul and electronic music. Artists such as Ezra Collective, Shabaka Hutchings, Nubya Garcia, Sons of Kemet, Moses Boyd and Yussef Dayes are blending technical skills with a new-found cultural energy to give 21st century British jazz a fresh identity that nonetheless draws upon the pantheon of the great modern American jazz artists including John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Pharoah Sanders, . . . .go to book page >>

This deluxe new large-format hardback book features hundreds of striking and beautiful record sleeve designs from Folkways Records, one of the most iconic independent record companies in the world. Ronald Clyne, the primary designer at Folkways Records, was responsible for more than 500 record sleeves on almost every subject imaginable, as well as for numerous artists including Woody Guthrie, John Cage, Lead Belly, Langston Hughes, Pete Seeger, Angela Davis, Mary Lou Williams, Sarah Webster Fabio, Allen Ginsberg and many more, all of whom feature in this book. Folkways Records was founded by Moses Asch in 1948. Encouraged by Albert Einstein . . . .go to book page >>