-title photo by Erik Bardin

“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.

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.”

Originally released in 1960, the avant-garde jazz response “We Insist!” (subtitled “Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite”) features five works concerning the Emancipation Proclamation and the civil rights era.