Max Roach

180 GRAM CLEAR VINYL

An avant-garde masterpiece, a vocal-instrumental suite, a work of collective improvisation, directly addressing the racial and political issues of it’s day, We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite is one of the most important artistic statements of the Civil Rights Movement and one of the most groundbreaking jazz albums of all time.

PERSONNEL:

• Max Roach - (drums)
• Juliean Prester - (trombone)
• Walter Benton, Coleman Hawkins - (tenor sax)
• James Schenck - (bass)
• Michael Olatunji - (congas)
• Ray Mantilla, Thomas DuVall - (percussion)
• Abbey Lincoln - (vocal)

New York, August 31 & September 6, 1960

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Driva’ Man
• A2. Freedom Day
• A3. Triptych: Prayer / Protest / Peace

• SIDE B
• B1. All Africa
• B2. Tears for Johannesburg