Ten Freedom Summers
by Wadada Leo Smith
User Score
4.1

Mixed or average reviews- based on 221 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 81 out of 221
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 221
  3. Negative: 123 out of 221
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  1. Jessthespider
    Jul 29, 2019
    5
    Have you noticed that this album has pretty negative reviews on it but all the big names gave it 10. Smells like pandering but who knows it might just be not for me. I think it's fine. A bit much but fine.
  2. zhong
    Jul 25, 2020
    6
    The critics rated the album 99？but just less than 10 critics rate the album.plz it's unfair
  3. JaneMetascore
    Dec 18, 2019
    6
    Jazz still matters to us as music listeners despite Wadada Leo Smith's efforts to continue after the commercial demise of once widely touted Free Jazz. With its comparison to classical this must sound better as post-modernist classical like the Kronos Quartet. Jazz and Classical won't merge as easily as was thought, since Jazz is improvisation based, with blues themes. While this is anJazz still matters to us as music listeners despite Wadada Leo Smith's efforts to continue after the commercial demise of once widely touted Free Jazz. With its comparison to classical this must sound better as post-modernist classical like the Kronos Quartet. Jazz and Classical won't merge as easily as was thought, since Jazz is improvisation based, with blues themes. While this is an epic jazz outing it is somewhat dissapointing. It is confusing there are so many differences between the hippy and punk era, as well as post-Marsalis.… Expand

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99

Universal acclaim - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. AllMusic
    Dec 20, 2012
    90
    Ten Freedom Summers is his magnum opus; it belongs in jazz's canonical lexicon with Duke Ellington's Black Brown & Beige and Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite.
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  2. musicOMH.com
    Dec 3, 2012
    100
    In this globalised but fragmented world, now so obsessed with immediacy, rapidity and digestibility, Ten Freedom Summers is a visionary work of protest and power.
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  3. BBC Music
    Nov 9, 2012
    100
    Another classic of the genre is born.
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