Civil Disobedience: Blue Note Records in the Progressive ‘60’s

Donny McCaslin – tenor, soprano

Jason Palmer – trumpet

Bruce Barth – piano

David Ambrosio – bass

Victor Lewis – drums

NY bassist David Ambrosio has created this project to feature the progressive jazz composers of the late 60’s Blue Note Era, like Bobby Hutcherson, Jackie McLean, Stanley Cowell, Harold Land, Joe Chambers, Duke Pearson and James Spaulding. During a time of important social change and civil unrest, much of this body of work was released decades later and consequently was not heard at the time for when it was written.

Exactly fifty years later in America we are seeing significant parallels in social movements to that era which gives this important music, while unfortunately not heard at the time, a new sense of relevancy.

This performance is part of a statewide tour made possible with the support of Jazz Road, a national initiative of South Arts, which is funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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