A jazz piece dramatized lynching through wordless screams of horror and rage.

Evidence

The centerpiece “Triptych: Prayer, Protest, Peace” was a trio of wordless duets between Lincoln’s voice and Roach’s drum. At the center of this primal pas de deux was an unprecedented series of screams, lasting over a minute, in which, encouraged by Roach to imagine herself suddenly coming across the corpse of a man lynched from a tree, Lincoln responded with horror and rage in what the historian Scott Saul would call “the most hair-raising ninety seconds of jazz in existence.” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 314

Categorization

• SHARE: For a jazz or music-history friend — the specificity of an unmetered screamed duet as protest requires context only a specialist would carry.