
Album Review: “Songs in Flight”
On February 14, Cedille Records will release Songs in Flight, an album of world premiere recordings of vocal music by Chicago-based composer Shawn E. Okpebholo. The titular song cycle was inspired by the Freedom on the Move database, an archive of over 30,000 advertisements for runaway enslaved individuals from early American newspapers. The album features singers Rhiannon Giddens, Will Liverman, Reginald Mobley, and Karen Slack; pianist Paul Sánchez; and saxophonist Julian Velasco. Read on for our full review.