Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jazz drummer Terri Lyne Carrington poses for a portrait. She has recorded a reimagining of the legendary Max Roach album "We ...

How best to revisit a classic album of Civil Rights-era jazz activism two generations after the fact? If you are drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, and you're re-imagining—her word—"We Insist! by Max ...

One of the seminal works of jazz as protest, "We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite,” was first released in 1961 by Max Roach in collaboration with Abbey Lincoln and lyricist Oscar Brown, Jr. on ...

“The more things change, the more they stay the same,” French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Kerr said in 1849. Nearly 200 years later, that is sadly true of the greatest protest songs. In 2025, songs ...