Jazz Speaks for Life

A timely callback to MLK's notes for the first Jazzfest Berlin

Oct 30, 2024

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Martin Luther King, Jr. giving a press conference at London’s Savoy Hotel in Sept. 1964, a few days before the first Jazzfest Berlin. (Zola/Daily Mirror/Getty)

Sixty years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote an essay for the program book of the inaugural Berliner Jazztage, which the world now knows as Jazzfest Berlin. “God has wrought many things out of o…

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