Ten Freedom Summers

Album by Wadada Leo Smith

Ten Freedom Summers is a studio album by American trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith, released in 2012. The album is a multi-part extended composition that blends avant-garde jazz, contemporary classical textures and free improvisation to address themes from the American civil rights era, representing a large-scale, late-career expansion of Smith's orchestral and ensemble writing.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Dred Scott: 1857
    11:48
  2. 2.
    Malik Al Shabazz and the People of the Shahada
    5:15
  3. 3.
    Emmett Till: Defiant, Fearless
    18:02
  4. 4.
    Thurgood Marshall and Brown Vs. Board of Education: A Dream of Equal Education, 1954
    15:05
  5. 5.
    John F. Kennedy's New Frontier and the Space Age, 1960
    22:08

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 381 Days
    12:43
  2. 3.
    Black Church
    16:35
  3. 4.
    Freedom Summer: Voter Registration, Acts of Compassion and Empowerment, 1964
    12:34
  4. 5.
    Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
    24:12

Disc 3

  1. 3.
    The Freedom Riders Ride
    16:40
  2. 4.
    Medgar Evers: A Love-Voice of a Thousand Years' Journey for Liberty and Justice
    10:07
  3. 5.
    The D.C. Wall: A War Memorial for All Times
    12:17
  4. 6.
    Buzzsaw: The Myth of a Free Press
    15:03
  5. 7.
    The Little Rock Nine: A Force for Desegregation in Education, 1957
    13:49

Disc 4

  1. 4.
    America, Parts 1, 2 & 3
    14:11
  2. 5.
    September 11th, 2001: A Memorial
    9:39
  3. 6.
    Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1964
    8:36
  4. 7.
    Democracy
    14:30
  5. 8.
    Martin Luther King, Jr: Memphis, the Prophecy
    20:34

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