Name: We Insist Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite
Brand: Max Roach

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

70885730121

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Clear

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Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Indie Exclusive, 180 Gram Vinyl

Format Music US

Limited edition

2000

Release date

2022-04-23

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

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Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

708857301218

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Clear LP

Artist

Max Roach

Genre US

Jazz

Label US

Candid Records

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.

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. The five movements of the work are organized as a historical progression through African-American history, a shape similar to the one in Duke Ellington’s Black, Brown and Beige. The Freedom Now Suite moves from slavery to Emancipation Day to the contemporary civil-rights struggle and African independence. Roach vowed after its release that he would never again play music that is not socially relevant and told Down Beat magazine, "We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that we’re master musicians of our instruments. Now what we have to do is employ our skill to tell the dramatic story of our people and what we’ve been through."

We Insist Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite

Music US

Discover We Insist! (RSD 2022) by Max Roach. Limited Edition LP from Candid Records. An avant-garde masterpiece addressing racial and political issues, a groundbreaking jazz album of the Civil Rights Movement.