Celebrate Freedom

[Ajax]

I thank the heavens, every day, for the freedom I enjoy.

Oscar Peterson - Hymn to Freedom - by the master himself - 6:03

Shorter, choral version 3:07 - by a children's chorus, with lyrics.

Solo version by an unknown young man with really good chops - 5:01 - Regrettably, it ends abruptly before the song is finished, but it's worth if for the young man's playing.

[spl_nut]

Amen brother!

[dvenardos]

You do realize that by putting the hottie in there we didn't hear anything you said. :D

[ThomasC]

America, **** Yeah! (NSFW, obviously)

:raspberry: :biglaugh:

[quadman]

Jack put those audio files in there just to torture me. With my dial up he KNOWS it'll be next week before I can listen to them.... :p

[Eric D]

Jack put those audio files in there just to torture me. With my dial up he KNOWS it'll be next week before I can listen to them.... :p

As long as you could see the image, who cares! :salute:

Happy 4th everyone!

:lurk:

[Ajax]

Jack put those audio files in there just to torture me. With my dial up he KNOWS it'll be next week before I can listen to them.... :p

Oh jeez! I'm so sorry John. :embarass: They are links to YouTube vids. Do those take a long time to load if you're on dialup?

[django1]

I thank the heavens, every day, for the freedom I enjoy.

Oscar Peterson - Hymn to Freedom - by the master himself - 6:03

I'm also very grateful for the benefits I enjoy North of you. Why was I born here instead of Haiti? Sheer un-adulterated luck. Thank Cybele for that.

You picked a Canadian for your Hymn to Freedom...:salute:

[Ajax]

You picked a Canadian for your Hymn to Freedom...:salute:

UMM, not exactly. I chose a wonderful, musical work of art. The work itself isn't Canadian, or American, or Mexican, or Chinese, or European. It was inspired by the U.S. civil rights movement specifically, but celebrates freedom in general, and happens to have been written by a Canadian. The author being Canadian neither caused, nor ruled out, my choice of a this particular piece of music. It was chosen because, IMHO, it is a terrific musical work and because I respect and admire the musicianship of the author (Oscar Peterson). I included it as part of my "Happy 4th of July" message in the hopes that others might enjoy it as much as I do.

P.S. I resent you deleting a post of mine which in no way violated any forum rule.