When jazz album covers were as fiery as the music inside

After the 1960s, jazz got loud and angry. And so did its record sleevesIt was a time when white visitors to New York took a deep breath and rode the subway to 125th Street, since cab drivers cruising the midtown streets could not be persuaded to take them to Harlem. Lines were drawn and invisible barricades erected in the years after the murders of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, and the raw reality could be heard in the music.Jazz, which had been losing its popularity throughout the 1960s, be...

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