WeFreeStrings - Love In The Form of Sacred Outrage [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: ESP5073CD
Barcode: 0825481507325
Release Date: 24 Mar 2023
Genre: Jazz

WeFreeStrings was founded in 2011. This is the group’s second album. Leader Melanie Dyer (not to be confused with the Australian country-pop songwriter of the same name) is a jazz viola player and composer based in New York City who currently performs with the Sun Ra Arkestra, Dead Lecturers, Heroes Are Gang Leaders, Baba Andrew Lamb, Gwen Laster’s New Muse 4tet, William Parker, Tomeka Reid Stringtet, Janice Lowe/Tyehimbe Jess Millie & Christina project, and Patricia Nicholson’s Women with an Axe to Grind. She’s played and/or recorded with Henry Grimes, Makanda Ken McIntyre’s Contemporary African American Composers’ Orchestra, Tulivu Donna Cumberbatch, Nona Hendryx, Joe Bonner, Reggie Workman, Howard Johnson, David Haney, and many other notable musicians.

She trained with William Lincer (Principal Violist, New York Philharmonic), Lee Yeingst (Principal Violist, Colorado Symphony Orchestra), John Jake Kella (NY Metropolitan Opera) and Naomi Fellows (Colorado Symphony Orchestra); and studied viola performance at the LaMont School of Music/University of Denver.

TRACKLISTING
1. Baraka Suite
2. Love in the Form of Sacred Outrage [for Fannie Lou Hamer]
3. Pretty Flowers
4. Propagating the Same Type of Madness, that uh... [for Fred Hampton]