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Breeding Resistance
By Ted Sirota
Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Saro-Wiwa; Chairman Fred (I Wish Fred Hampton Was Here); Knife; For Martyrs; This Is A Takeover;
Elegy; Breeding Resistance (aka Paper Tiger Blues); Huntsville, TX; D.C.; Ax
Ted Sirota: Breeding Resistance
by Terrell Kent Holmes
From Billie Holiday's “Strange Fruit" to Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite, jazz has played its part in the all too frequent struggles against oppression and despotism. Drummer Ted Sirota, with his band Rebel Souls, has written another page in this long and rich tradition of protest music with Breeding Resistance , designed to raise awareness of ...
Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls: Breeding Resistance
by Rex Butters
Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls know danger when they create it. Arriving on Chicago's Delmark label, Breeding Resistance taps into an honorable jazz tradition of music as political activism. Mingus, Shepp, Kirk, Haden, and more recently Dapp Theory, David Budbill, and Vijay Iyer have successfully wed jazz and politics. Drummer Sirota drives his ensemble through a catalogue ...
Ted Sirota: Drummer with the Soul of a Rebel
by R.J. DeLuke
Ted Sirota out of Chicago is a thinker. He’s politically astute and socially conscious. He’s also a musician, drummer and composer by trade. He sees struggle in all realms — political, social and art — but he rolls with the punches and moves with the times. And he’s combined a sound statement on the political and ...
Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls: Breeding Resistance
by Mark Corroto
Anyone out there wondering where (and maybe when) all the popular culture protests over King George’s war will begin? Where are the Country Joe and the Fish bands? Has Someone kidnapped Arlo Guthrie? And will Crosby, Stills, and Nash have to seek the advice of their broker before singing “Ohio” again? Sorry, but ...
Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls: Propaganda
by Joel Roberts
I was immediately hooked by this album's first track: a loose, free-wheelin' tune called “Geronimo's Free" that laces jazz solos over a ska backbeat, recalling the best of the Skatellites. But don't expect just one sound or style from Chicago drummer Ted Sirota and his band, the Rebel Souls. Propaganda offers a little bit of everything: ...
