Name: We Insist! Freedom Now Suite
Brand: Max Roach

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Catalogue number

4605LP

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Black

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-04-07

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8435723700050

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Black LP

Artist

Max Roach

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Jazz

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Jazz Wax

Jazz Wax is an Andorran label that specializes in reissuing classic Jazz albums on 180 gram vinyl. With a focus on preserving the rich history of Jazz music, *Jazz Wax* brings iconic recordings back to life for audiophiles and collectors alike. The label may also appear as "JWR" on releases, making it easily recognizable to fans. Affiliated with renowned labels such as [l1437348] and [l415938], *Jazz Wax* ensures the highest quality sound and packaging for each release. Whether you're a seasoned Jazz enthusiast or just discovering the genre, *Jazz Wax* offers a curated selection of timeless masterpieces that will transport you to the golden age of Jazz.

Max Roach was an American jazz drummer, bandleader, and artist. He was born on January 10, 1924 in Newland, Pasquotank County, North Carolina and passed away on August 16, 2007 in Manhattan, New York City at the age of 83. Roach was married to singer Abbey Lincoln and their daughter was a talented viola player.
Roach is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished jazz drummers and percussionists of his time. Throughout his career, he collaborated with legendary jazz musicians such as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Sonny Rollins.
If you enjoy the music of Andrew Hill, Freddie Hubbard or Oliver Nelson among others from that era of jazz music then Max Roach's work will surely captivate you. His contributions to the genre are highly influential and continue to inspire generations of musicians today.

Limited edition 180g vinyl - audiophile pressing, the complete album + 1 bonus track. In addition to being one of the best jazz drummers of all time, Max Roach was a long-time civil rights activist. The cover art for the 1961 LP, 'We Insist! Freedom Now Suite', shows a photo of three black men at a lunch counter with a white man in a soda jerk's uniform attending them. It was an incendiary image directed at a still-segregated country. But the album does not stop at its cover. The music is superb, and includes an array of jazz stars, including singer Abbey Lincoln, tenor saxophonists Coleman Hawkins and Walter Benton, trumpeter Booker Little, trombonist Julian Priester, and conguero Michael Babatunde Olatunji. This was (and still is) both a brilliant piece of music, and a political and social statement, which received a crown in the Penguin Guide to Jazzand a 5-star rating in Down Beat. MAX ROACH, drums & leader BOOKER LITTLE, trumpet JULIAN PRIESTER, trombone WALTER BENTON, tenor sax COLEMAN HAWKINS, tenor sax JAMES SCHENCK, bass MICHAEL OLATUNJI, congas RAY MANTILLA, percussion TOM?S DuVALL, percussion ABBEY LINCOLN, vocals New York, August 31 & September 6, 1960.

We Insist! Freedom Now Suite

Music GB