Emancipation Proclamation: A Real Statement of Freedom

Emancipation Proclamation: A Real Statement of Freedom is an album by percussionist Hamid Drake and multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee recorded in 1999 and first released on the Okka Disk label.[1]

Emancipation Proclamation: A Real Statement of Freedom
Live album by
Hamid Drake and Joe McPhee
Released2000
RecordedJune 25, 1999 at the Empty Bottle in Chicago.
GenreJazz
Length58:44
LabelOkka Disk OD12036
ProducerBruno Johnson, Hamid Drake and Joe McPhee
Joe McPhee chronology
No Greater Love
(1999)		 Emancipation Proclamation: A Real Statement of Freedom
(2000)		 Grand Marquis
(1999)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
All About Jazz[3]

Allmusic reviewer Thom Jurek states "Emancipation Proclamation: A Real Statement of Freedom is one of those avant jazz duet dates that puts everything else in perspective by revealing at its heart that anything is possible when conditions are right".[2] On All About Jazz, Derek Taylor wrote "Taped at Chicago's Empty Bottle where monumental meetings of this caliber almost seem customary it's a union that many followers of creative improvised music have been dreaming about for some time".[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Joe McPhee and Hamid Drake except as indicated

  1. "Cries and Whispers" - 18:37
  2. "Mother Africa (For Miriam Makeba)" - 17:10
  3. "God Bless the Child" (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog Jr.) - 4:17
  4. "Emancipation Proclamation" - 14:30
  5. "Hate Crime Cries" - 3:13

Personnel

References
  1. Joe McPhee discography accessed April 24, 2015
  2. Jurek, Thom. Emancipation Proclamation: A Real Statement of Freedom – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
  3. Taylor, D., All About Jazz Review, January 1, 2001
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