Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln -- Driva-Man

Abbey Lincoln and her husband at the time, legendary bebop era drummer Max Roach, doing a song from his famous "We Insist! - Freedom Now" suite.
Max Roach (drums), Coleridge Perkins (piano), Eddie Kahn (bass), Clifford Jordan (sax), Abbey Lincoln (vocal)
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I have this album, and it's really powerful stuff. Max Roach plays with such authority. And the message is almost shoved down your throat. Almost so much that it would almost not be taken seriously if released today after the irony generation. The climate sure was different in 1960.

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