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.