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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.
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Tracklisting
- 1. DRIVA' MAN
- 2. FREEDOM DAY
- 3. TRIPTYCH: PRAYER/ PROTEST/PEACE
- 1. ALL AFRICA
- 2. TEARS FOR JOHANNESBURG
- 3. OH YEAH, OH YEAH
Disc 1
Side 1
Side 2
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We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite
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We Insist (Mono)
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It's Time
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Complete Studio Recordings
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We Insist! Freedom Now Suite + 1 Bonus Track!
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We Insist! Freedom Now Suite + 7 Bonus Tracks (Photo...
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Quiet As Its Kept
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