Max Roach – We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (Reedición)

Mint

Label: DOL – DOL1074HF

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album

Country: Europe Released: 2020

Genre: Jazz Style: Afro-Cuban Jazz, Hard Bop

Credits

• Bass – James Schenck (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B2)
• Congas [Conga Drums] – Michael Olatunji* (tracks: B1, B2)
• Drums – Max Roach
• Engineer – Bob D'Orleans
• Percussion – Raymond Mantillo* (tracks: B1, B2), Tomas du Vall (tracks: B1, B2)
• Photography By – Hugh Bell (2), Paul Bacon (2)
• Sleeve Notes – A. Philip Randolph*, Nat Hentoff
• Supervised By – Nat Hentoff
• Tenor Saxophone – Coleman Hawkins (tracks: A1), Walter Benton (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B2)
• Trombone – Julian Priester (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B2)
• Trumpet – Booker Little (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B2)
• Vocals – Abbey Lincoln

Notes

"A revolution is unfurling - America's unfinished revolution. It is unfirling in lunch counters, buses, libraries and schools - wherever the dignity and potential of men are denied. Youth and idealism are unfurling. Masses of Negroes are marching onto the stage of history and demanding their freedom now!" -A Philip Randolph
What this album is saying is that FREEDOM DAY is coming in many places, and those working for it mean to make it stick. In 1937, a Negro who still remembered slavery spoke of what it was like in 1865. "Hallelujah broke out... Everyboby went wild. We all felt like heroes, and nobody had make us that way but ourselves." It's happening again.

Recorded: Nola Penthouse Sound Studio, New York, August 31 and September 6, 1960