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Max Roach - We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (Limited Edition of 500 on Color Vinyl)
Max Roach - We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (Limited Edition of 500 on Color Vinyl)
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One of the defining artistic statements of the civil rights movement!
The album-cover is a simple black and white photo of black men sitting at the counter. They stare the camera down while the white waiter seems nervous. So what? Just three black guys in a café. But in 1960 when this album was first released there were too many people in the US who would have seen this image as an outrage, as provocative, as contrary to God’s law. A white man serving black men? Impossible.
Max Roach's 1960 masterwork We Insist! is a suite based on the Civil Rights Movement, and involves variations on the theme of the struggle for African Americans to achieve equality in the United States, a struggle that is still all too relevant. Roach began composing with lyricist Oscar Brown Jr. in 1959, with the initial intention of having the suite performed in 1963, on the 100th anniversary of The Emancipation Proclamation. Featuring the wonderful Abbey Lincoln on vocals, as well as Booker Little, Julian Priester, Coleman Hawkins, Olatunji, and more, We Insist! is a truly stunning album, one that knows no equal from that time or since.
The album-cover is a simple black and white photo of black men sitting at the counter. They stare the camera down while the white waiter seems nervous. So what? Just three black guys in a café. But in 1960 when this album was first released there were too many people in the US who would have seen this image as an outrage, as provocative, as contrary to God’s law. A white man serving black men? Impossible.
Max Roach's 1960 masterwork We Insist! is a suite based on the Civil Rights Movement, and involves variations on the theme of the struggle for African Americans to achieve equality in the United States, a struggle that is still all too relevant. Roach began composing with lyricist Oscar Brown Jr. in 1959, with the initial intention of having the suite performed in 1963, on the 100th anniversary of The Emancipation Proclamation. Featuring the wonderful Abbey Lincoln on vocals, as well as Booker Little, Julian Priester, Coleman Hawkins, Olatunji, and more, We Insist! is a truly stunning album, one that knows no equal from that time or since.
