(Born 10 July 1807/1808, Minerva, Essex county, New York, US)
African American violinist, farmer and landowner, kidnapped and
enslaved in 1841 whilst visiting Washington, DC, for a music performance
mission; regains his freedom in 1853 and becomes an influential campaign
speaker for the African American freedom movement in the US’s northeast,
publishes 12 Years a Slave (1853), the classic
of his experience – basis of the feature, award-winning 2013 film directed
by Steve McQueen in which Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Solomon Northup
Twitter@HerbertEkweEkwe
(Charles Mingus Sextet – with Eric Dolphy, Cornell University 1964, “Meditations” [personnel: Mingus, bass; Johnny Coles, trumpet; Dolphy, flute, bass clarinet; Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophone; Jaki Byard, piano; Dannie Richmond, drums; recorded: live, Cornell University, 18 March 1964])
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