| Uhuru Afrika | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | End of April 1961[1] | |||
| Recorded | November 1960 | |||
| Studio | Bell Sound, New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Roulette R 65001 | |||
| Producer | Teddy Reig | |||
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Uhuru Afrika (subtitled/translated as Freedom Africa) is an album by American jazz pianist Randy Weston recorded in 1960 and originally released on the Roulette label.[2] The album features lyrics and liner notes by the poet Langston Hughes and was banned in South Africa in 1964, at the same time as was Lena Horne's Here's Lena Now! (Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite had been the victim of an earlier banning order), with copies of the albums being seized in Johannesburg and Cape Town.[3]
- ^ Billboard, May 8, 1961.
- ^ Randy Weston catalog accessed August 14, 2012.
- ^ "Uhuru Afrika banned by South-African government", Jazz Publicity Service, October 5, 1964.