Spiritual Jazz 16: Riverside etc.

Description

Since 2008, our Spiritual Jazz series has presented unlimited horizons. Each album celebrates the rich tradition of African American songs based on the belief in a higher power and has also focused on geographical areas, such as Europe or Japan, thus recognizing that these territories possess immense cultural wealth. Religions, such as Islam, whose musical traditions have vivid Arab and North African resonances, have also been highlighted. The stylistic range of all of the above is wide.
Spiritual Jazz 16 focuses on Riverside and its associated brother labels. Riverside itself was founded in 1953 by Orrin Keepnews and Bill Grauer and became an important supplier during that decade and beyond of what would be marketed as modern jazz. This currency was itself a generic and amorphous term that essentially created a demarcation between the vocabulary of pre-war classic jazz and that of the swing of the big bands of the interwar period, thus recognizing that improvising artists were innovating on new creative grounds that would then give rise to a wave of music sub-genres, for example bebop, hard bop, cool, modal, and Latin jazz.