African Village-Bedford Stuyvesant (1974). Randy Weston /best weston/

Image via WikipediaGoogle Book search now includes a selection of magazines. Since I'm listening to jazz artist Randy Weston, I plugged his name into the search and this was the first result from Jet, July 1961:

New York Jazz pianist Randy Weston has entitled his new album Uhuru Afrika ( Freedom Africa), "an American salute to an emerging continent." Weston, who has a deep interest in contemporary Africa and is currently studying the Swahili language, wrote the music for the album, which features Afro-American and African talent.

This matches my thinking of how Weston's music is the most African of any American artist, yet still close enough to mainstream jazz.

From Weston's discography, the inspiration for African Village-Bedford Stuyvesant:

Randy was struck by the similarity of Black people, that he could travel all over the world from Brooklyn and still see a face which reminded him of someone he knew or had seen before. The feeling was the same -that warmth, that soulful magic and drama re-enacted all over the world. So African Village is that smiling, soulful, woman in Dakar or Bedford Stuyvesant saying ''Good morning", no matter who you are....

By the way, to quickly start listening to an artist's music in lala, type the name in the search box and click on the play arrow next to the name on the search results. This is an ordered list by most often played recently. For Weston, it's mostly just me doing the listening but for more popular artists, it works well as an introduction to the music. Or just play this track for the best of the best (albeit not the original version):

African Village Bedford-Stuyve...