To make your day on the internet worthwhile you should not only visit the What Is Jazz lectures but also have a closer look at The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship.
Amongst many other things you’ll learn that…
[…] Jazz performers responded to the force of the civil rights movement by recording and performing their music. The most ambitious response was the Freedom Now Suite of Max Roach, recorded in August and September 1960, and involving such major performers as Coleman Hawkins, Abbey Lincoln, and Nigerian drummer Olatunji. The Freedom Now Suite was issued on the small label Candid Records rather than on Max Roach’s regular label, Mercury.