Max Roach - We Insist! - Freedom Now Suite - MONO mix

Artist: Max Roach | Label: Candid | Format: LP | Genre: Jazz | Album Condition: New  |  Cover Condition: Sealed Max Roach WE INSIST!  Freedom Now SuiteCandid 30021M - re-issue with rare MONO mix! featuring Abbey Lincoln, Coleman Hawkins, Olatunji, Booker Little & Julian Priester.  An avant-garde masterpiece, a vocal-instrumental suite, a work of collective improvisation, directly addressing the racial and political issues of its day, We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite is one of the most important artistic statements of Civil Rights Movement and one of the most groundbreaking jazz albums of all time. Max Roach was already almost a decade into his career as one of the most influential jazz drummers and composers when he teamed up with lyricist Oscar Brown Jr. to collaborate on a piece they planned to perform at the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1963. Recorded just months after the February 1960 Greensboro sit-ins, the album stands as an early musical testame