| Baptiste, Denys / Let Freedom Ring! |
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| Album: | Let Freedom Ring! | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Baptiste, Denys | Added: | 02/2005 | |
| Label: | Dune | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2005-02-13 | Pull Date: | 2005-04-17 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | 17 Apr | 3 Apr | 13 Mar | 6 Mar | 27 Feb | 20 Feb |
| 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! | |
| 2. | May 14, 2010: | No Cover, No Minimum With this Faith | 5. | Apr 04, 2008: | Memory Select With this Faith | |
| 3. | May 22, 2009: | No Cover, No Minimum Free at Last! | 6. | Apr 04, 2008: | No Cover, No Minimum Free at Last! |
| Album Review |
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| Craig Matsumoto Reviewed 2005-02-11 | ||
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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. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | I Have a Dream | 3. | Let Freedom Ring! | |||
| 2. | With this Faith | 4. | Free at Last! |