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- Summary: The four-disc set from the jazz trumpeter was inspired by the Civil Rights Movement.
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- Record Label: Cuneiform Records
- Genre(s): Jazz
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 8
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Mixed: 0 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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Dec 3, 2012In 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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Nov 9, 2012In four and a half hours, Wadada Leo Smith writes one of America's defining events in sound, and the story is all of ours.
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Nov 9, 2012Another classic of the genre is born.
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Nov 9, 2012With this encyclopedic set, Smith delivers yet another convincing musical document for his consideration as one of the most accomplished composers/bandleaders currently working in creative improvised music.
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Dec 20, 2012Ten 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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Nov 9, 2012The jazz and classical groups play separately and sometimes merge, and though conventional themes or sustained pulses are mostly sidelined by the languages of free jazz and contemporary classical music, this epic life's work is a landmark in jazz's rich canon.
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Nov 9, 2012Smith'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.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 22
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Mixed: 3 out of 22
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Negative: 15 out of 22
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Nov 7, 2016
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Feb 22, 2017Very good but long af.................................................................................................................................
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Jul 25, 2020The critics rated the album 99？but just less than 10 critics rate the album.plz it's unfair
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Aug 10, 2022not goodffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
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Jan 23, 2020Solo tiene 8 críticas no sirve de nada es horrible el album y no tiene nada que ver con la música y solo tiene votos de sus amigos que ni cuentan
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Jun 20, 2022How the hell does this album with only 8 media score rank higher than Fetch the Bolt Cutter, the hell?
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Aug 20, 2022This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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