Emancipation Proclamation: A Real Statement of Freedom
by Hamid Drake & Joe McPhee
- Type: Album
- Released: 1 January 2000
- Label: Okka Disk
- Country: United States
- Length: 57:47
- Community rating: 3.33/5 from 1 rating
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Recorded live at Chicago's Empty Bottle on 25 June 1999, 'Emancipation Proclamation: A Real Statement of Freedom' pairs drummer and percussionist Hamid Drake with saxophonist Joe McPhee across five extended improvisations running just under an hour. The set closes with the standard 'God Bless the Child', the duo's free jazz grounded in blues and spiritual traditions as much as in abstraction.
Genres
Descriptors: improvisation, saxophone, percussive, avant-garde, live
Tracklist
- Cries And Whispers (18:37)
- Mother Africa (For Miriam Makeba) (17:10)
- God Bless The Child (4:17)
- Emancipation Proclamation (14:30)
- Hate Crime Cries (3:13)
Credits
- Bruno Johnson - executive-producer, executive producer, producer
- Malachi Ritscher - recorded by, mastered by, mastering
- John Corbett - photography by, photography
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