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Denys Baptiste: Let Freedom Ring!

Read "Let Freedom Ring!" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
April 27, 2005

With jazz becoming such a broad landscape that labels are increasingly difficult to apply, it's difficult, if not impossible, to identify specific new movements like the ones that appeared in the middle decades of the 20th Century. While there have been all kinds of innovations to be sure, there hasn't been anything quite so sweeping as ...

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Denys Baptiste: Let Freedom Ring!

Read "Let Freedom Ring!" reviewed by Paul Olson

by Paul Olson
April 8, 2005

London tenor saxophonist Denys Baptiste aims for the sun and stars with his four-part, large-ensemble suite Let Freedom Ring! What is striking is just how wildly, and wonderfully, his ambitions are realized by the final product. The piece was commissioned by the Cheltenham International Jazz Festival to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's ...

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