Results for "Freedom Suite"

Freedom Suite

Label: CFG Multimedia
Released: 2022
Track listing: Movement I; Movement II; Movement III; Interlude; Movement IV.

Karl Ackermann's Best Creative Music Albums Of 2022

by Karl Ackermann
December 15, 2022

For good, or bad, the “new normal" can finally be archived, and the club doors reopened to full rooms of unmasked patrons. 2022 marked an informal end to the Pandemic and a rebirth in live performing arts. Like similar periods in history, an unusual burst of creative energy followed isolation. Jazz was no exception; the resilience ...

Mark Lomax, II and Edwin Bayard - Ogún Meji Duo: Freedom Suite

by Karl Ackermann
October 19, 2022

More than half a century after Sonny Rollins' civil rights statement Freedom Suite (Riverside, 1958), we have not advanced enough as a species to lay such sentiments to rest. The Ogún Meji Duo—drummer Mark Lomax, II and saxophonist Edwin Bayard—honor Rollins and the suite, with a new and different interpretation of his seminal work. This is ...

Freedom Suite

By Sonny Rollins

Label: Milestone Records
Released: 2012

Freedom Suite

By Sonny Rollins

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2008
Track listing: The Freedom Suite; Someday I'll Find You; Will You Still Be Mine?; Till There Was You (take 4); Shadow Waltz; Till There Was You (take 1); Till There Was You (take 3); There Will Never Be Another You.

Sonny Rollins: Freedom Suite

by Robert Iannapollo
August 7, 2008

From 1955-59, it appeared that Sonny Rollins could do no wrong. One needs only to listen to the 1-2-3 punch of Saxophone Colossus, Live At The Village Vanguard or Way Out West for confirmation. Most jazz fans know these albums backwards and forwards.One of the albums from this period that's only slightly less revered ...

Freedom Suite

By David S. Ware

Label: AUM Fidelity
Released: 2002
Track listing: The Freedom Suite.

David S. Ware Quartet: Freedom Suite

by AAJ Staff
October 1, 2002

Tenor saxophonist David S. Ware is something of a prophet. That may sound like a melodramatic exaggeration, but it's true. Ware belongs in a long tradition of African American musical testimony which finds its roots in the early days of slavery and which has manifested itself in subsequent forms of revelation including the blues and gospel. ...