The magnificent portraits of Ornette and Denardo Coleman on the front and Albert Ayler on the back, as featured in the recently issued book of the same name as this compilation, provide an effective framework for the music. The resonance of their experiments with both acoustic and electric bands that pushed to the avant-garde and non-western music, all the while tilling the infinitely fertile field of the blues, can be heard in anybody from the lesser-known Doug Hammond, Lloyd McNeil and Harold McKinney to Ornette's great soulmate Don Cherry and the equally iconic Yusef Lateef. A stellar wild card is The Last Poets' ‘It's A Trip’, a piece of riptide funk in the vanguard of hip-hop that is so raucous and unapologetic in its denunciation of injustice and brutality it would have the meanest of gangsta rappers cowering in fear. Therein lies the real power of ‘Radical and Revolutionary Jazz’.