Max Roach - We Insist! Freedom Now Suite - 350288

We Insist! Freedom Now Suite

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Release Date: 07 April 2023

Label: Jazz Wax

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8435723700050

Genres: Jazz

Release Date: 08 August 2025

Label: 20th Century Masterworks

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8436563186592

Genres: Jazz

Description
Limited edition 180g vinyl - audiophile pressing, the complete album + 1 bonus track.
In addition to being one of the best jazz drummers of all time, Max Roach was a long-time civil rights activist. The cover art for the 1961 LP, 'We Insist! Freedom Now Suite', shows a photo of three black men at a lunch counter with a white man in a soda jerk's uniform attending them. It was an incendiary image directed at a still-segregated country.
But the album does not stop at its cover. The music is superb, and includes an array of jazz stars, including singer Abbey Lincoln, tenor saxophonists Coleman Hawkins and Walter Benton, trumpeter Booker Little, trombonist Julian Priester, and conguero Michael Babatunde Olatunji. This was (and still is) both a brilliant piece of music, and a political and social statement, which received a crown in the Penguin Guide to Jazzand a 5-star rating in Down Beat.
MAX ROACH, drums & leader
BOOKER LITTLE, trumpet
JULIAN PRIESTER, trombone
WALTER BENTON, tenor sax
COLEMAN HAWKINS, tenor sax
JAMES SCHENCK, bass
MICHAEL OLATUNJI, congas
RAY MANTILLA, percussion
TOMÁS DuVALL, percussion
ABBEY LINCOLN, vocals
New York, August 31 & September 6, 1960.

Description
Limited edition, 180g yellow coloured vinyl pressing of the complete album + 2 bonus tracks. Contains new specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz's writer Brian Morton and by Paris' prestigious Jazz Magazine.
In July of 1960, Max Roach and Charles Mingus - in search of fair treatment for African-American performers - organised a "rebel festival" to coincide with the prestigious Newport Jazz Festival. Roach's celebrated LP, 'We Insist! - Freedom Now Suite' with lyrics by Oscar Brown Jr. is fuelled by the energy of the civil rights movement. The ambiance of rebellion, coupled with the increasing development of the Civil Rights and Black Pride movements, provides the context for both a brilliant piece of music, and a powerful political and social statement.
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