June 19, 2020

Freedom Day

Max Roach

https://youtu.be/EsAnAQfdyKY

Obvious choice for today
Rather than suffer my inconsequential remarks, read this fantastic essay by Ingrid Monson:
https://jazztimes.com/features/columns/revisited-the-freedom-now-suite/
One callback to a previous dose: Roach composed the suite using a melodica!
Though the video here is a shorter, slightly different version performed live in Belgium in 64
Chosen due to my (previously-referenced) predilection for Clifford Jordan’s tenor