We Insist! Max Roach's - Freedom Now Suite (Vinyl LP) Folk & Americana

We Insist! Max Roach's - Freedom Now Suite (Vinyl LP) Folk & AmericanaWe Insist! Freedom Now Suite (Candid, 1960) remains a work of enduring musical and social importance. Notwithstanding Roach's central role in the creation of bop, or his later hard bop explorations with trumpeter Clifford Brown, it is, by some margin, the most perfectly realised album he recorded. 1960 was the year in which black Americans' struggle for civil rights reached critical mass. In February, anti segregationist lunch counter sit ins began in

capturing the world's attention and dominating the charts

written and arranged by King

He wrote "Disco Hi-Life" in Yoruba and "Children of the World" in English

a peak-time disco bomb jam-packed with anthemic trumpet loops and silky vocals

His first full-length outing on genre-breaking London imprint On the Corner

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Walter Bishop Jr (piano)

" There may be a final irony in the title of Distant Populations

Czarface joins forces with MF Doom in the epic Czarface Meets Metal Face

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