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Format: LP
Label: Candid
Year: 2022
Media Condition: New
Sleeve/Cover Condition: New
TRACKS:
A1 Driva' Man
A2 Freedom Day
A3 Triptych (Prayer - Protest - Peace)
B1 All Africa
B2 Tears For Johannesburg
Originally released in 1961. This edition pressed on 180g black vinyl.
PERSONNEL:
Bass – James Schenck
Congas – Michael Olatunji
Drums – Max Roach
Percussion – Raymond Mantillo, Tomas du Vall
Tenor Saxophone – Coleman Hawkins, Walter Benton
Trombone – Julian Priester
Trumpet – Booker Little
Vocals – Abbey Lincoln
An avant-garde masterpiece, a vocal-instrumental suite, a work of collective improvisation, directly addressing the racial and political issues of it’s day, We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite is one of the most important artistic statements of Civil Rights Movement and one of the most groundbreaking jazz albums of all time.
Recorded just months after the February 1960 Greensboro sit-ins, the album stands as an early musical testament to the burgeoning rage, anger and passion that would take the Civil Rights Movement from its early victory in Montgomery in 1955 into a future that would dramatically alter race relations in the United States.
The five movements of the work are organized as a historical progression through African-American history, a shape similar to the one in Duke Ellington’s Black, Brown and Beige. The Freedom Now Suite moves from slavery to Emancipation Day to the contemporary civil-rights struggle and African independence.
Label: Candid
Year: 2022
Media Condition: New
Sleeve/Cover Condition: New
TRACKS:
A1 Driva' Man
A2 Freedom Day
A3 Triptych (Prayer - Protest - Peace)
B1 All Africa
B2 Tears For Johannesburg
Originally released in 1961. This edition pressed on 180g black vinyl.
PERSONNEL:
Bass – James Schenck
Congas – Michael Olatunji
Drums – Max Roach
Percussion – Raymond Mantillo, Tomas du Vall
Tenor Saxophone – Coleman Hawkins, Walter Benton
Trombone – Julian Priester
Trumpet – Booker Little
Vocals – Abbey Lincoln
An avant-garde masterpiece, a vocal-instrumental suite, a work of collective improvisation, directly addressing the racial and political issues of it’s day, We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite is one of the most important artistic statements of Civil Rights Movement and one of the most groundbreaking jazz albums of all time.
Recorded just months after the February 1960 Greensboro sit-ins, the album stands as an early musical testament to the burgeoning rage, anger and passion that would take the Civil Rights Movement from its early victory in Montgomery in 1955 into a future that would dramatically alter race relations in the United States.
The five movements of the work are organized as a historical progression through African-American history, a shape similar to the one in Duke Ellington’s Black, Brown and Beige. The Freedom Now Suite moves from slavery to Emancipation Day to the contemporary civil-rights struggle and African independence.