Jazz drummer Terri Lyne Carrington will lead a live band in a reimagining of songs from the “free” jazz era and “Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite.”

 “We Insist! 2025,” starring the four-time Grammy Award-winning musician and featuring vocalist Christie Dashiell, will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, in Eisenhower Auditorium. Morgan Guerin, Milena Casado and Matt Stevens, all featured on the 2025 recording, also will perform. 

Roach’s 1960 release, selected in 2022 by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry, is seminal to the social justice movements of the 1960s, Carrington said in a Center for the Performing Arts interview.

“That was always one of my favorite records of his,” she said in a recent online staff visit. “And we had a lot of things to talk about here in 2025, so I thought it would be great to look back and reimagine that album, and also make it, more current, so to say.”

 Tickets are $47 for an adult, $14 for a University Park student, and $33 for a person 18 and younger and are available for purchase online. Avoid the $4 fee by purchasing over the phone at 814-863-0255 or in person, weekdays 10 a.m.–4 p.m., at Eisenhower Auditorium.

Visit “We Insist! 2025” online for more information and to purchase tickets.