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Stealin' Home: Jackie Robinson Suite

Label: Cryptogramophone
Released: 2022
Track listing: Lieutenant Jackie; Up From the Minors; Stealin' Home; Fatigue; 0 for 3; High and Inside.

Bobby Bradford and Friends: Stealin' Home: Jackie Robinson Suite

by Chuck Koton
August 8, 2022

Born in Mississippi in 1934 and raised in Dallas, Texas, cornet master and composer Bobby Bradford knows racism and segregation. When asked if Texas was completely segregated, Bradford said, “If there's a word stronger than 'completely,' that was Texas." In spite of the hate and discrimination of everyday life in the Jim Crow South, Bradford and ...