Reviewed by Michael E. Veal | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.1

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*The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles*. By Steven L. Isoardi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xxi + 356 pp. Photos, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 (cloth).
Two recent events in New York City prepared me for this book review. The first was witnessing the Los Angeles cornetist and composer Lawrence "Butch" Morris create one of his conducted improvisation pieces with New York's NuBlu Orchestra at a Brooklyn theater. The second was a DVD reissue of the 1972 Wattstax festival featuring the star soul singers of the Memphis-based Stax/Volt recording label at the Los Angeles Coliseum.	1
Connecting these disparate art events is the profuse creativity of the African American community in Los Angeles during the 1970s and the way in which the creative arts can help revitalize a community's spirit in the face of trying social circumstances. For decades, the African American community in Los Angeles has endured notoriously severe institutional racism and police brutality. The community's artistic creativity helped it to survive.	. . .

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