Celebrating 60 years of Impulse Records, this set includes tracks by John Coltrane, Quincy Jones, Charles Mingus and other legendary Impulse artists. The performances draw their staying power from a wide embrace of styles and sounds, as well as a tight focus on a historic moment when the promise of change was in the air and the message of racial harmony was in the music. Today that music has lost none of its relevance: the promise still deferred, the message still on time.

- 1 -
1. The John Coltrane Quartet - Africa
2. Max Roach - Garvey's Ghost
3. Quincy Jones and His Orchestra - Hard Sock Dance
4. John Coltrane - Up 'Gainst the Wall
5. Elvin Jones/Jimmy Garrison Sextet - Just Us Blues
6. John Coltrane - Alabama
7. Charles Mingus - Better Get Hit In Yo' Soul
8. Shirley Scott Trio - Freedom Dance /
9. Yusef Lateef - Sister Mamie
10. Archie Shepp - Malcolm, Malcolmsemper Malcolm
11. Stanley Turrentine - Good Lookin' Out
12. Earl Hines - Black and Tan Fantasy
13. Oliver Nelson - the Rights of All

- 2 -
1. Pharoah Sanders - the Creator Has a Master Plan (Edit)
2. John Coltrane & Alice Coltrane - Reverend King
3. The Ahmad Jamal Trio - the Awakening
4. Albert Ayler - Music is the Healing Force of the Universe
5. Charlie Haden - We Shall Overcome
6. Alice Coltrane - Blue Nile
7. Pharoah Sanders - Astral Traveling
8. Archie Shepp - Blues For Brother George Jackson
9. Michael White - Lament (Mankind)
10. Dewey Redman - Imani /
11. Marion Brown - Bismillahi 'Rrahmani 'Rrahim
12. John Handy - Hard Work