We Insist! - Freedom Now

Infobox Album |
Name = We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite
Type = Album
Artist = Max Roach


Released = 1960
Recorded = Aug 31, 1960,Sep 6, 1960
Genre = Jazz
Length = 36:43
Label = Candid Records
Producer = Engineering: Bob d'Orleans; Supervision: Nat Hentoff
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:i09ks36ya3mg link]
Last album = "Parisian Sketches"
(1960)
This album = "We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite"
(1960)
Next album =

"We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite" is a 1960 jazz album containing a suite which Max Roach and lyricist Oscar Brown had begun to develop in 1959 with a view to its performance in 1963 on the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation LP Sleevenotes by Nat Hentoff] . The cover references the Sit-in movement of the Civil Rights Movement.

Track listing

# "Driva Man" – 5:10
# "Freedom Day" – 6:02
# "Triptych: Prayer/Protest/Peace" – 7:58
# "All Africa" – 7:57
# "Tears for Johannesburg" – 9:36

Musicians

*Abbey Lincoln, vocals
*Coleman Hawkins, tenor saxophone on "Driva Man"
*Walter Benton, tenor saxophone
*Booker Little, trumpet
*Julian Priester, trombone
*James Schenk, bass
*Max Roach, drums
*Michael Olatunji, conga drums on "Tears for Johannesburg"
*Raymond Mantilla, percussion on "Tears for Johannesburg"
*Tomas du Vall, percussion on "Tears for Johannesburg"

References