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Max Roach - We Insist Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite [Remastered]

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Format: CD
Rel. Date: 04/15/2022
UPC: 708857300228

We Insist Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite [Remastered]
Artist: Max Roach
Format: CD
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Formats and Editions

DISC: 1

1. Driva' Man
2. Freedom Day
3. Triptych:Prayer/Protest/Peace
4. All Africa
5. Tears for Johannesburg

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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 the Civil Rights Movement and one of the most groundbreaking jazz albums of all time. Roach vowed after it's release that he would never again play music that is not socially relevant and told Down Beat magazine, "We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that we're master musicians of our instruments. Now what we have to do is employ our skill to tell the dramatic story of our people and what we've been through. " The album inspired Roach to broaden his scope as a composer and collaborate with choreographers, filmmakers, and playwrights.
        
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