We Insist! - Freedom Now

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We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite
Image:Max Roach-We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (album cover).jpg
Studio album by Max Roach
Released	1960
Recorded	Aug 31, 1960,Sep 6, 1960
Genre	Jazz
Length	36:43
Label	Candid Records
Producer	Engineering: Bob d'Orleans; Supervision: Nat Hentoff
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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]. The cover references the Sit-in movement of the Civil Rights Movement.

[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 Mantilla, percussion on "Tears for Johannesburg"
• Tomas du Vall, percussion on "Tears for Johannesburg"

[edit] References

1. ^ LP Sleevenotes by Nat Hentoff