| Emancipation Proclamation: A Real Statement of Freedom | ||||
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| Released | 2000 | |||
| Recorded | June 25, 1999 at the Empty Bottle in Chicago. | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 58:44 | |||
| Label | Okka Disk OD12036 | |||
| Producer | Bruno Johnson, Hamid Drake and Joe McPhee | |||
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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]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [2] |
| All About Jazz | [3] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [4] |
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]
All compositions by Joe McPhee and Hamid Drake except as indicated
Joe McPhee is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist born in Miami, Florida, a player of tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, the trumpet, flugelhorn and valve trombone. McPhee grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York, and is most notable for his free jazz work done from the late 1960s to the present day.
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