From the Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio Archives:
Let Freedom Swing 
Broadcast date:June 28, 2007
Morgan Freeman and Glenn Close join the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis to honor social justice and swing. The thespians bring the words of Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, and Lyndon Baines Johnson to life with music by Zim Ngqawana, Darius Brubeck, and Jimmy Heath. Composer Darin Atwater and actor Keith David premiere "Day of Affirmation," in memory of Robert F. Kennedy.

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