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a r t i s t denys baptiste
a l b u m let freedom ring!
l a b e l Dune Records
g e n r e jazz
r i p d a t e 25-06-2005
s t r e e t d a t e 29-09-2003
o r i g i n a l r e l 2003
s o u r c e cd
b i t r a t e VBR
e n c o d e r lame 3.90.3
r e l e a s e n o t e s
Denys Baptiste - tenor sax
Nathaniel Facey - alto sax
Abram Wilson - trumpet
Trevor Mires - trombone
Omar Puente - violin
Jenny Adejayan - cello
Andrew McCormack - piano
Robin Banerjee - guitar (tracks 2 & 4)
Adam Goldsmith - guitar (tracks 1 & 3)
Gary Crosby - double bass
Satin Singh - percussion
Rod Youngs - drums
Ben Okri - poetry
Music and lyrics composed and arranged by Denys Baptiste, poetry by
Ben Okri.
Londoner Baptiste won a Mobo award in 1999, and plenty of respectful
applause for his debut CD, Be Where You Are. Let Freedom Ring was
composed to reflect the speech-rhythms of Martin Luther King's I Have
a Dream Speech on its 40th anniversary, but quoting words of
contemporary social enlightenment from Ben Okri and drawing on
gospel, blues, free-jazz and Afro-Cuban music.
The opening section of the suite is its least resolved element, after
which everything starts thundering like a supertuned engine, and long
stretches of the set almost convince you you're listening to a
Charles Mingus band (a tumultuous oracle that both Baptiste and his
compositional guide Dave Holland both go back to).
The set opens quietly (strings challenged by sharply contrasting
brass, saxes eventually winding around them), and the opening solos
on alto sax and guitar are a little static. But that early five-
minute period is the only longueur, and violinist Omar Puente's
combination of raw, sawing dissonance, audaciously gliding new melody
and burning intensity lifts the session into a mood it hardly loses
again.s
The handclapping, hot-gospel, Mingus-like testifyin' atmosphere turns
into a bleary blues in the second section. It's a piece of 1960s-jazz
revivalism, catching the transported mood better than a Wynton
Marsalis band (trumpet-playing aside) manages the same effect.
A distant echo of A Love Supreme accompanies Ben Okri's soft
certainties in Part Three, turning into explosive free-for-all
blasting, and then a drifting pastoral giving way to a Latin groove.
Puente, percussion and headlong swing build to the chanted anthem
Free At Last.
A great achievement by the modest Baptiste, who is taking this show
on the road in the UK over the coming weeks.
John Fordham, guardian.co.uk
...and remember: s t a y f u f f e n s f o r l i f e
t r a c k l i s t
i have a dream 16:05
with this faith 08:33
let freedom ring! 12:37
free at last 09:16
46:31
MB 69,7
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