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Tomos Williams: An Absolute Riot! Risings, Race And Identity In Wales

by Ian Patterson
January 12, 2024

Threads. They wind their way through history, overlapping, interconnecting and sometimes weaving strange and powerful narratives that never really end, but simply grow and evolve. In 2020, half a millennium after the first transatlantic slave ships set sail from Europe to Africa, cheering protesters in Bristol, England, dumped the statue of slave trader Edward ...

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Ten Freedom Summers

By Wadada Leo Smith

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: CD1: Dred Scott, 1857; Malik Al Shabazz and the People of the Shahada; Emmett Till: Defiant, Fearless; Thurgood Marshall and Brown Vs. Board of Education: A Dream of Equal Education, 1954; John F. Kennedy's New Frontier And The Space Age, 1960. CD2: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 381 Days; Black Church; Freedom Summer: Voter Registration, Acts Of Compassion and Empowerment, 1964; Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. CD3: The Freedom Riders Ride; Medgar Evers: A Love-Voice of a Thousand Years' Journey for Liberty and Justice; The D.C. Wall: A War Memorial for All Times; Buzzsaw: The Myth of a Free Press; The Little Rock Nine: A Force for Desegregation in Education, 1957. CD4: America, Pts. 1, 2 & 3; September 11th, 2001: A Memorial; Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1964; Democracy; Martin Luther King, Jr.: Memphis, The Prophecy.

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Ten Freedom Summers

Featuring the music of Wadada Leo Smith
Duration: 13:02
December 18, 2012

An orchestral collaboration of Southwest Chamber Music and Smith's Golden Quartet featuring pianist Anthony Davis, bassist John Lindberg, drummer Susie Ibarra and/or drummer Pheeroan akLaaf (who often expands the ensemble to a quintet).

Article: Album Review

Wadada Leo Smith: Ten Freedom Summers

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 18, 2012

Igor Stravinskij affermava che il significato della musica è legato unicamente al rapporto tra gli elementi musicali, collocati in una costruzione senza alcun legame con altre realtà. Ciò è parzialmente valido nei confronti della musica composta a tavolino, studiata ed elaborata nei suoi dettagli squisitamente costruttivi. Ma la musica che in sé contiene elementi di improvvisazione, ...

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Dred Scott: 1857

June 18, 2012

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