Artist - Song Title - Album - Year Released
Opening Song:
Oscar Peterson - Unforgettable - With Respect To Nat - 1965
Oscar Peterson - Vocals
Set 1:
Sarah Vaughan - I've Got A Crush On You - Sarah Vaughan Sing George Gershwin - 1958
Sonny Stitt - Blues For Pres, Sweets, Ben and All The Other Funky Ones - Sonny Stitt Sits In With The Oscar Peterson Trio - 1959
Sonny Stitt - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Oscar Peterson – piano
Ray Brown – double bass
Ed Thigpen - drums
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit - 1939
Louis Armstrong - (What Did I Do To Be So) Black and Blue - Satch Plays Fats - 1955
Set 2:
John Coltrane Quartet - Alabama - Live At Birdland - 1963
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
McCoy Tyner – piano
Jimmy Garrison – double bass
Elvin Jones – drums
Note: Track was written in response to the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing on September 15, 1963, an attack by theKu Klux Klan in Birmingham, Alabama that killed four girls.
Charles Mingus - Fables of Faubus - Ah Um - 1959
Charles Mingus – bass
John Handy – alto sax
Booker Ervin – tenor sax
Shafi Hadi – tenor sax
Jimmy Knepper – trombone
Horace Parlan – piano
Dannie Richmond – drums
Note: Track is named after Orval E. Faubus (1910–1994), the Governor of Arkansas infamous for his 1957 stand against integration of Little Rock, Arkansas schools in defiance of U.S. Supreme Court rulings on segregation.
Max Roach - Freedom Day - We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite - 1960
Max Roach – drums
Abbey Lincoln – vocals
Booker Little – trumpet
Julian Priester – trombone Walter Benton – tenor saxophone
James Schenk – bass
Joe Henderson - Black Is The Color (Of My True Love's Mind) - Black Is The Color - 1972
Joe Henderson - tenor sax, flute, alto flute
George Cables - piano
Georg Wadenius - guitar
Dave Holland - bass
Jack DeJohnette - electric piano and drums
Airto Moreira - percussion
Ralph MacDonald - percussion
Set 3:
Herbie Hancock - I Have A Dream - The Prisoner - 1969
Herbie Hancock — piano
Johnny Coles — flugelhorn
Garnett Brown — trombone
Joe Henderson — tenor saxophone
Buster Williams — bass
Tootie Heath — drums
Tony Studd — bass trombone
Hubert Laws — flute
Jerome Richardson — bass clarinet
Miles Davis - Spanish Key - Bitches Brew - 1970
Miles Davis – trumpet
Wayne Shorter – soprano saxophone
Bennie Maupin – bass clarinet
Joe Zawinul – electric piano – Left
Larry Young – electric piano – Center
Chick Corea – electric piano – Right
John McLaughlin – electric guitar
Dave Holland – bass
Harvey Brooks – electric bass
Lenny White – drum set – Left
Jack DeJohnette – drum set – Right
Don Alias – congas
Juma Santos – shaker
Set 4:
Lonnie Smith - Think - Think! - 1968
Lonnie Smith - organ
Lee Morgan - trumpet
David Newman - tenor saxophone, flute
Herman Henry, Melvin Sparks - guitar
Marion Booker Jr. - drums
Jimmy Smith - Let's Stay Together - Root Down - 1972
Jimmy Smith - Hammond B3 organ
Paul Humphrey - drums
Wilton Felder - bass guitar
Buck Clarke - congas, percussion
Arthur Adams - guitar
Lou Donaldson - Say It Loud! (I'm Black And I'm Proud) - Say It Loud! - 1969
Lou Donaldson - alto saxophone
Blue Mitchell - trumpet
Charles Earland - organ
Jimmy Ponder - guitar
Leo Morris - drums
Nina Simone - Backlash Blues - Nina Simone Sings The Blues - 1967
Nina Simone: vocal, piano
Eric Gale: guitar
Rudy Stevenson: guitar
Ernie Hayes: organ
Bob Bushnell: bass
Bernard Purdie: drums
Buddy Lucas : harmonica, tenor sax
Duke Ellington feat Mahalia Jackson - Part IV (aka Come Sunday) - Black, Brown and Beige - 1958
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