Uhuru na Umoja (in Swahili "Freedom and Unity") is an album by American free jazz saxophonist Frank Wright recorded in 1970 in Paris, originally released on the French America label and reissued on CD in 2004 by Universal France.
Wright leads a quartet featuring alto saxophonist Noah Howard, who composed each of the tracks, pianist Bobby Few and bebop drummer Art Taylor in his first free jazz date.
[1] "Oriental Mood" and "Aurora Borealis" are the same compositions as "Mount Fuji" and "Queen Anne", from Howard's The Black Ark album.
In his review for AllMusic, Sean Westergaard states "Wright's gruff tenor contrasts nicely with Howard's sweeter tone, which is not really less intense, just less ferocious..
"[4] Clifford Allen of Paris Transatlantic called the album an excellent snapshot of "a regularly working free jazz group at the peak of its form," and commented: "the pieces on Uhuru Na Umoja are generally short and fall far from the side- or album-length compositions that one usually finds on a typical free jazz blowing session from this period... one assumes that Wright performances weren't always endless blowouts, but rather explorations of colors and shapes, not to mention lengths.