Cooch's Bridge: Voices of Resilience | R&B Music News

R&B Music News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Aug 20, 2026 · 2m

Drummer and educator Jonathan Whitney drops a hauntingly beautiful new album, “Cooch’s Bridge: The African-American Presence,” honoring the lives of enslaved and free Black people who lived near Delaware’s only Revolutionary War battlefield. Blending jazz, R&B, and Afro-diasporic rhythms, the project humanizes these figures—mothers, fathers, artists—as more than their struggles, with tracks like “We’re Free” and the powerful “Say Their Names.” Commissioned by historic preservationists and premiered at Opera Delaware, it’s already traveled to California, bringing overlooked stories to life…