Baptiste, Denys / Let Freedom Ring!
| Album: | Let Freedom Ring! | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Baptiste, Denys | Added: | Feb 2005 | |
| Label: | Dune | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2005-02-13 | Pull Date: | 2005-04-17 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | Apr 17 | Apr 3 | Mar 13 | Mar 6 | Feb 27 | Feb 20 |
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| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 25, 2011: | No Cover, No Minimum
With this Faith |
4. | Oct 03, 2008: | No Cover, No Minimum
Free at Last! |
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| 2. | May 14, 2010: | No Cover, No Minimum
With this Faith |
5. | Apr 04, 2008: | Memory Select
With this Faith |
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| 3. | May 22, 2009: | No Cover, No Minimum
Free at Last! |
6. | Apr 04, 2008: | No Cover, No Minimum
Free at Last! |
Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2005-02-11
Reviewed 2005-02-11
Accessible, post-bop jazz with spoken word in a Ken Nordine-like bass voice (Ben Okri). This is a jazz suite devoted to Martin Luther King’s famous speech and vision. Tracks are long and expansive, with Baptiste going for a “jazz symphony” kind of sound.
1- Gently swaying feel. Deep and breezy. Includes a cool violin solo (-7:30)
2- Brash New Orleans feel: Trumpet solo, then jumping and joyous midtempo. Poetry near the end calls black people to draw power from the limitations handed down by society: “embrace our marginalization … for [it] can well be the key to some of the most beautiful energies.” Uplifting.
3- Mid/fast, nicely complex theme. Then a spacey poetry break and a free blowout with some wicked soloing by Baptiste.
4- Joyous “grand conclusion” with a choir singing “free at last.” Gets a bit cheesy, admittedly, but has a nice rolling, dusky, post-bop backdrop.
1- Gently swaying feel. Deep and breezy. Includes a cool violin solo (-7:30)
2- Brash New Orleans feel: Trumpet solo, then jumping and joyous midtempo. Poetry near the end calls black people to draw power from the limitations handed down by society: “embrace our marginalization … for [it] can well be the key to some of the most beautiful energies.” Uplifting.
3- Mid/fast, nicely complex theme. Then a spacey poetry break and a free blowout with some wicked soloing by Baptiste.
4- Joyous “grand conclusion” with a choir singing “free at last.” Gets a bit cheesy, admittedly, but has a nice rolling, dusky, post-bop backdrop.
Track Listing
| 1. | I Have a Dream | 3. | Let Freedom Ring! | |||
| 2. | With this Faith | 4. | Free at Last! |