Black And Beautiful... Soul And Madness by The Jihad, released on Jihad Productions in 1968.

"Black & Beautiful, Soul & Madness was the first word-music record I did completely devoted to this form. One-piece on a New York Art Quartet side earlier, but Black & Beautiful was recorded at my home and in the small theater my wife, Amina, and I built there The Spirit House (33 Stirling St.) shortly after I had returned home to Newark, NJ, after the implosion of the Harlem based Blacks Arts Repertory Theater-School. Spirit House, like the Black Arts, was created to present Black theater, poetry, music, and political dialogue. we thought of ourselves as cultural workers, revolutionary artists 'pushing the program' as some of our cultural nationalist comrades were wont to say. I think you can feel our excitement and commitment." - Amiri Baraka, September 2009.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YGpaVWCAYA

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