In a deeply impressive and magnificent synthesis of gospel, jazz and contemporary music, Uri Caine tells the moving story of Octavius Catto, born in 1839 in South Carolina to free African-American parents. Catto's family moved to Philadelphia in 1844, where he studied, became an educator, humanities scholar, top cricket and baseball player, and civil rights activist. Together with his fellow campaigners, he achieved the abolition of slavery and discrimination in elections based on race, color, or former serfdom, as well as the creation of educational institutions for African-Americans. Catto was murdered by Frank Kelly during riots on election day in 1871. Octavius Catto: "We shall never rest at ease, but will agitate and work, by our means and by our influence, in court and out of court, asking aid of the press, calling upon Christians to vindicate their Christianity, and the members of the law to assert the principles of the profession by granting us justice and right, until these invidious and unjust usages shall have ceased."

Tracklist:

The Passion Of Octavius Catto: No. 1, Prologue
The Passion Of Octavius Catto: No. 2, The Mobs Burn Down Pennsylvania Hall, Philadelphia (May 17, 1838)
The Passion Of Octavius Catto: No. 3, No East No West
The Passion Of Octavius Catto: No. 4, The Philadelphia Streetcar Protests (March 1867)
The Passion Of Octavius Catto: No. 5, Baseball Star Of 1867
The Passion Of Octavius Catto: No. 6, Change
The Passion Of Octavius Catto: No. 7, The Amendments
The Passion Of Octavius Catto: No. 8, Murder (October 10, 1871)
The Passion Of Octavius Catto: No. 9, The Lament Of Caroline Le Count
The Passion Of Octavius Catto: No. 10, The Martyr Rests (October 16, 1871)

UPC: 025091026920
Label: Winter & Winter
Release Date: 11.6.20
Format: Vinyl

Caine - Passion of Octavius Catto (LP)