Introducing “Coming Together,” a group of texts, images, and recordings reflecting on the Attica rebellion fifty years after landmark recordings by several American composers.

Responses to the Attica rebellion by Frederic Rzewski, Archie Shepp, and Charles Mingus pursued the question: how to use the resources of improvisation to provide ways for Black life to survive in the American necropolis.

An article based on an interview conducted with Archie Shepp, Beaver Harris, and William Kunstler for the November 1972 issue of Jazz Magazine, here translated from the French.