Hal Willner's Freedom Rides: Geri Allen + Eric Mingus + Lou Reed + Tao Seeger, James Staten + Jason Walker + Macy Gray + Tao Seeger + more

Mad-genius producer Hal Willner, the man responsible for many of New York's most powerful nights of music, has built a stellar reputation for his amazing skills of juxtaposition, binding together wildly disparate artists in profoundly insightful ways on record and onstage. Focusing here on the civil-rights movement, Willner enlists soul belter Macy Gray, rock iconoclast Lou Reed, superb jazz pianist Geri Allen, and the progeny of the era's fieriest icons, including Tao Seeger and Eric Mingus.