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Ten Freedom Summers
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.
Wadada Leo Smith: Ten Freedom Summers
by Eyal Hareuveni
Wadada Leo SmithTen Freedom SummersCuneiform Records2012Music--protest songs or extended compositions--have long been to be an integral part of human rights struggles. Suffice to mention such canonical musical statements as drummer Max Roach's We Insist! Freedom Now Suite (Candid, 1960) and Lift Every Voice and Sing (Atlantic, 1971), saxophonist ...
Ten Freedom Summers
by John Sharpe
Wadada Leo Smith Ten Freedom Summers Cuneiform Records 2012 Without doubt Ten Freedom Summers is the crowning achievement of trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith's distinguished career to date. Years in the making, the complete sequence of 19 songs, inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, was recorded live at Los ...
Wadada Leo Smith: Ten Freedom Summers
by Mark Redlefsen
Wadada Leo SmithTen Freedom SummersCuneiform Records2012Jazz music and the Civil Rights Movement in America have moved on parallel tracks from the 20th century up until the present. Freedom Suite (Riverside, 1958) by saxophonist Sonny Rollins, We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (Candid, 1960) by drummer Max Roach ...
Wadada Leo Smith: Ten Freedom Summers
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Wadada Leo SmithTen Freedom SummersCuneiform Records2012Trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers is four and a half hours of music, spread over four compact discs. The mind struggles to make coherent sense of so large an undertaking. Smith has said that there are no recurring musical ...