Uri Caine, The Catto Freedom Orchestra & André Raphel – The Passion of Octavius Catto (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 29:53 minutes | 549 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Winter & Winter
In the fall of 2017 Philadelphia unveiled a statue of Octavius Catto in front of City Hall. Catto was a 19th Century African-American freedom fighter known for his work as an abolitionist, educator, pioneering baseball player, and civil and voting rights advocate. Uri Caine’s The Passion of Octavius Catto, written for orchestra, choral ensemble, gospel vocalist and jazz trio was commissioned by the Mann Music Center and the Pew Center for the Arts. His ten part composition documents Catto’s life-long activism which was cut short by his murder during the 1871 Election Day violence perpetrated against African-American Philadelphians as they attempted to exercise their right to vote — won two years earlier with the passage of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution.
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