Love & Liberation

Love & Liberation
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 23, 2019
GenreJazz
Length48:09
LabelConcord

Love & Liberation is a 2019 studio album by Jazzmeia Horn.[1][2]

The album received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album.[3]

Background

Love & Liberation follow's Horn's 2017 album A Social Call. In contrast to A Social Call which Horn describes a "call to social awareness", Horn describes Love & Liberation as a "call to action".[4]

The sixth track on the album, "Legs and Arms" was written by Horn during her time at The New School while residing in a dormitory in Chelsea, Manhattan.[4] The lyrics are written from the perspective of a man who was stalking Horn at the time:

...there was a stalker who just kept watching me in my room consistently every morning. He had figured out my schedule, and I'd see him watching me through the window. And a teacher of mine, I explained to her what was going on, and she said you should write a song about it. You know, you should do something about it that brings joy to you. You know, you should turn the situation into something positive.

— Jazzmeia Horn, Jazzmeia Horn On 'Love And Liberation', NPR

Track listing

  1. Free Your Mind - 4:47
  2. Time - 1:55
  3. Out the Window - 3:30
  4. No More (Jon Hendricks, Hubert Laws) - 3:47
  5. When I Say - 2:29
  6. Legs and Arms - 7:23
  7. Searchin' - 3:02
  8. Green Eyes (Victor E. Cooke, James Poyser, Erykah Badu) - 5:19
  9. Still Tryin' - 4:23
  10. Only You - 1:14
  11. Reflections of My Heart (George Duke, Rachelle Ferrell) - 6:32
  12. I Thought About You (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Mercer) - 3:48

Personnel

  • Jazzmeia Horn - Vocals
  • Victor Gould - Piano
  • Sullivan Fortner - Piano
  • Stacey Dillard - Tenor Saxophone
  • Josh Evans - Trumpet
  • Ben Williams - Bass
  • Jamison Ross - Drums[5]

References

  1. ^ "Love and Liberation - Jazzmeia Horn". AllMusic. Archived from the original on October 7, 2022. Retrieved January 27, 2020.
  2. ^ "Jazzmeia Horn: Love & Liberation album review @ All About Jazz". All About Jazz. Archived from the original on January 27, 2020. Retrieved January 27, 2020.
  3. ^ "Jazzmeia Horn | Artist | GRAMMY.com". grammy.com. Retrieved December 28, 2024.
  4. ^ a b "Jazzmeia Horn On 'Love And Liberation'". NPR. Retrieved May 17, 2025.
  5. ^ "Love and Liberation - Concord - Label Group". concord.com. June 27, 2019. Retrieved February 22, 2025.