Emancipation Proclamation: A Real Statement of Freedom is an album by percussionist Hamid Drake and multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee recorded in 1999 and first released on the Okka Disk label.[1]

Emancipation Proclamation: A Real Statement of Freedom
Live album by Hamid Drake and Joe McPhee
Released	2000
Recorded	June 25, 1999 at the Empty Bottle in Chicago.
Genre	Jazz
Length	58:44
Label	Okka Disk OD12036
Producer	Bruno Johnson, Hamid Drake and Joe McPhee
Joe McPhee chronology
No Greater Love (1999) Emancipation Proclamation: A Real Statement of Freedom (2000) Grand Marquis (1999)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
All About Jazz	[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[4]

Allmusic reviewer Thom Jurek states "Emancipation Proclamation: A Real Statement of Freedom is one of those avant jazz duet dates that puts everything else in perspective by revealing at its heart that anything is possible when conditions are right".[2] On All About Jazz, Derek Taylor wrote "Taped at Chicago's Empty Bottle where monumental meetings of this caliber almost seem customary it's a union that many followers of creative improvised music have been dreaming about for some time".[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Joe McPhee and Hamid Drake except as indicated

1. "Cries and Whispers" - 18:37
2. "Mother Africa (For Miriam Makeba)" - 17:10
3. "God Bless the Child" (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog Jr.) - 4:17
4. "Emancipation Proclamation" - 14:30
5. "Hate Crime Cries" - 3:13

Personnel

• Joe McPhee - pocket trumpet, tenor saxophone
• Hamid Drake - percussion, drums

References