Explores how jazz helped propel the rise of African American Islam during the era of global Black liberationAmid the social change and liberation of the civil rights and Black Power movements the tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded a tribute to Malcolm Xs emancipatory political consciousness. Shepp saw similarities between his revolutionary hero and John Coltrane one of the most influential jazz musicians of the era. Later the esteemed trumpeter Miles Davis echoed Shepps sentiment recognizing that Coltranes music represented the very passion rage rebellion and love that Malcolm X preached.Soundtrack to a Movement examines the link between the revolutionary Black Islam of the postWWII generation and jazz music.