Max Roach – We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite
Tracklist
| 1 | Tears For Johannesburg | 9:36 | |
| 2 | Driva' Man | 5:10 | |
| 3 | Triptych: Prayer - Protest - Peace | 7:58 | |
| 4 | All Africa | 7:57 | |
| 5 | Freedom Day | 6:02 |
Companies, etc.
- Manufactured By – Victor Entertainment, Inc.
- Distributed By – Victor Entertainment, Inc.
Credits
- Bass – James Schenck (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B2)
- Congas [Conga Drums] – Michael Olatunji* (tracks: B1, B2)
- Drums – Max Roach
- Engineer – Bob d'Orleans
- Percussion – Tomas du Vall (tracks: B1, B2)
- Supervised By – Nat Hentoff
- Tenor Saxophone – Walter Benton (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B2)
- Trombone – Julian Priester (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B2)
- Trumpet – Booker Little (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B2)
- Vocals – Abbey Lincoln
Notes
Japanese 20 bit digital remaster with obi.
"A revolution is unfurling - America's unfinished revolution. It is unfirling in lunch counters, buses, libraries and schools - wherever the dignity and potential of men are denied. Youth and idealism are unfurling. Masses of Negroes are marching onto the stage of history and demanding their freedom now!" -A Philip Randolph
What this album is saying is that FREEDOM DAY is coming in many places, and those working for it mean to make it stick. In 1937, a Negro who still ed slavery spoke of what it was like in 1865. "Hallelujah broke out... Everyboby went wild. We all felt like heroes, and nobody had make us that way but ourselves." It's happening again.
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"A revolution is unfurling - America's unfinished revolution. It is unfirling in lunch counters, buses, libraries and schools - wherever the dignity and potential of men are denied. Youth and idealism are unfurling. Masses of Negroes are marching onto the stage of history and demanding their freedom now!" -A Philip Randolph
What this album is saying is that FREEDOM DAY is coming in many places, and those working for it mean to make it stick. In 1937, a Negro who still ed slavery spoke of what it was like in 1865. "Hallelujah broke out... Everyboby went wild. We all felt like heroes, and nobody had make us that way but ourselves." It's happening again.
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Other Versions (5 of 59)
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We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (LP, Album, Mono) | Candid | CJM 8002 | US | 1961 | ||
| We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (LP, Album, Stereo) | Candid | CJS 9002 | US | 1961 | |||
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We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (LP, Album, Mono, Indianapolis Pressing) | Candid | CJM 8002, | US | 1961 | ||
| Freedom Now Suite (LP, Album, Mono) | Philips | P 08 636 L | 1962 | ||||
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New Submission
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We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (LP, Album, Stereo) | Candid | SMJ-7032 | Japan | 1962 |
Reviews
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Edited one year agoThis edition utilizes the same source as this early edition, M'Boom Re:percussion Ensemble. It's important to note that somewhere along the way artists started taking their master tapes rather than leaving them to the mercy of corporate execs, so the pilfering of those priceless reels has been going on for a very long time. -
Edited 3 months agoAs far as I know, the Victor reissue is the only version of "We Insist!" released on CD that doesn't suffer from very obvious flaws in the sound. According to liner notes, this Japanese reissue was made from Max Roach's personal master tapes. For some reason, Candid seems to have lost its own master tapes (or maybe Roach never gave them to the label), so all of their own CD releases of the album have issues with sound distortion, sounding like a vinyl rip. The 2011 Poll Winners Records reissue uses the Candid CD as a source, and therefore it has the same distortion. So the Victor release is the one to get if you wanna hear this amazing album on CD.
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