Ten freedom summers

Ten freedom summers

Ten freedom summers is based on the Civil Rights Movement in the USA and Wadada Leo Smith has been working on it on and off for over 30 years. It features four discs and performances by his Golden Quartet/Quintet and a small chamber ensemble, including Anthony Davis, John Lindberg, Pheeroan akLaff,...

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Main Author: Smith, Wadada Leo, 1941-
Corporate Authors: Southwest Chamber Music (Musical group), Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet (Performer), Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quintet (Performer)
Other Authors: Von der Schmidt, Jeff (Conductor), Bjorkedal, Alison (Performer), Foschia, Jim (Performer), Gamma, Lorenz (Performer), Jacobson, Peter, violoncellist (Performer), Kaplan, Lawrence, flutist (Performer), Karlin, Jan (Performer), Peters, Tom (Double bassist) (Performer), Vartan, Lynn (Performer), Vijayan, Shalini (Performer), Davis, Anthony (Performer), Lindberg, John (Performer), Aklaff, Pheeroan (Performer), Ibarra, Susie (Performer)
Format: CD Audio
Language:English
Published: [Silver Spring, Md.] : Cuneiform Records, [2012]
Subjects:
Jazz > 2011-2020.
African Americans > Music.
Civil rights movements > 20th century > Songs and music.
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Item Description:
  • Music composed by Wadada Leo Smith.
  • Compact discs.
  • Program notes ([12] pages) inserted in container.
Table of Contents:
  • Disc 1. Dred Scott : 1857 (11:11)
  • Malik Al Shabazz and the people of the Shahada (5:15)
  • Emmett Till: defiant, fearless (18:02)
  • Thurgood Marshall and Brown vs. Board of Education: a dream of equal education, 1954 (16:06)
  • John F. Kennedy's new frontier and the space age, 1960 (22:12)
  • Disc 2. Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 381 days (12:43)
  • Black church (16:34)
  • Freedom summer: voter registration, acts of compassion and empowerment, 1964 (12:32)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (24:12)
  • Disc 3. The freedom riders ride (16:42)
  • Medgar Evers: a love-voice of a thousand years' journey for liberty and justice (10:23)
  • The D.C. wall: a war memorial for all times (12:18)
  • Buzzsaw: the myth of a free press (15:02)
  • The Little Rock Nine: a force for desegregation in education, 1957 (13:50)
  • Disc 4. America, parts 1, 2 & 3 (14:14)
  • September 11th, 2001: a memorial (9:30)
  • Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1964 (9:06)
  • Democracy (14:30)
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.: Memphis, the prophecy (20:34).

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