A major writer on jazz, and one of the most significant figures in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960’s,  Everett LeRoi Jones, who changed his name after, a major turning point in his life, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, to Amiri Baraka, has died at the age of 79.

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Eloquent tributes from:

– KEVIN LE GENDRE 

– RICHARD WILLIAMS

– DINO DI MEO – (in French)