Human Rights (album)

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Human Rights
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Studio album by
Released1986
Recorded1982
Genre Jazz
Label Kabell, Gramm
Wadada Leo Smith chronology
If You Want the Kernels You Have to Break the Shells
(1983)
Human Rights
(1986)
Procession of the Great Ancestry
(1989)
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Review scores
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Tom Hull B+ [2]

Human Rights is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. [3] [4] [5] The album was released in 1986 via Kabell and Gramm labels. [6]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Ethiopia / Africa"8:26
2."Don't You Remembe"4:52
3."Freedom Song"2:23
4."Rastafari#4"7:00
5."Humanismo Justa (Human Rights) / Tutmonda Muziko (World Music)"29:05

Personnel

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