Ten Freedom Summers - Wadada Leo Smith
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  • Summary: The four-disc set from the jazz trumpeter was inspired by the Civil Rights Movement.

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  1. BBC Music
    Nov 9, 2012
    100
    Another classic of the genre is born.
  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.
  3. PopMatters
    Nov 9, 2012
    100
    In four and a half hours, Wadada Leo Smith writes one of America's defining events in sound, and the story is all of ours.
  4. Exclaim
    Nov 9, 2012
    80
    Smith's music resonates with the suffering and the dreams of a better life that embodied the decade of 1954 to 1964 that is the subject of this powerful compendium of compositions.

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    10
    Beautifully crafted album. A record worth buying......................................................................................................

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