Monday 2 October 2017

217th birthday of Nat Turner

(Born 2 October 1800, Southampton county, Virginia, US)
INFLUENTIAL religious leader and organiser of the historic 21 August 1831 enslaved Africans’ insurrection in Virginia, United States, an uprising church historian James H Harris has described as the “turning point” in the African American freedom movement (James Harris, Preaching Liberation [Minneapolis: Augsbury Fortress Publishers, 1995], p. 46)
(The New York Contemporary Five plays John Tchicai’s composition, “Trio” – [personnel: Archie Shepp, tenor saxophone; Don Cherry, pocket trumpet;  Tchicai, alto saxophone; Don Moore, bass; JC Moses, drums [recorded: live, Jazzhus Montmarte, Copenhagen, Denmark, 15 November 1963]
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