Black Renaissance has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 15 episodes and was first played on 27 April 2014.

Black Renaissance was the musical project of Harry Whitaker. It featured Woody Shaw, Azar Lawrence, Buster Williams, Billy Hart and Mtume amongst others.

"Having already achieved varying degrees of commercial and critical success with Roy Ayers' Ubiquity project and Roberta Flack, Harry Whitaker went into the studio to record Black Renaissance: Body, Mind & Spirit, a tone poem reflecting on the state of African American music in the 1970s. Debunking the myth of the record's rarity aside (scarcely available…