Love & Liberation

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

Love & Liberation
Studio album by Jazzmeia Horn
Released	August 23, 2019
Genre	Jazz
Length	48:09
Label	Concord

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]