We Insist! - Freedom Now

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We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite
We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite cover
Studio album by Max Roach
Released 1960
Recorded Aug 31, 1960,Sep 6, 1960
Genre Jazz
Length 36:43
Label Candid Records
Producer(s) Engineering: Bob d'Orleans; Supervision: Nat Hentoff
Professional reviews
Max Roach chronology
Parisian Sketches
(1960)
We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite
(1960)


We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite is a 1960 jazz album containing a suite which Max Roach and lyricist Oscar Brown had begun to develop in 1959 with a view to its performance in 1963 on the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation [1].

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Driva Man" – 5:10
  2. "Freedom Day" – 6:02
  3. "Triptych: Prayer/Protest/Peace" – 7:58
  4. "All Africa" – 7:57
  5. "Tears for Johannesburg" – 9:36

[edit] Musicians

Abbey Lincoln - vocals

Coleman Hawkins - tenor saxophone on "Driva Man"

Walter Benton - tenor saxophone

Booker Little - trumpet

Julian Priester - trombone

James Schenk - bass

Max Roach - drums

Michael Olatunji - conga drums on "Tears for Johannesburg"

Raymond Mantillo - percussion on "Tears for Johannesburg"

Tomas du Vall - percussion on "Tears for Johannesburg"


[edit] References

  1. ^ LP Sleevenotes by Nat Hentoff