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Wadada Leo Smith: America’s National Parks
by Alberto Bazzurro
Approssimandosi al traguardo dei tre quarti di secolo (ci arriverà il prossimo 18 dicembre), Wadada Leo Smith, in una fase della sua carriera feconda (diremmo persino fulgida, senza voler peccare di retorica) come non mai, se ne esce con uno dei lavori che rimarranno fra i più luminosi della sua discografia, per mole, ambizioni (supportate dalla sostanza, ovviamente), pathos, importanza dei musicisti coinvolti, e chi più ne ha più ne metta. L'obiettivo, stavolta, è puntato sui parchi ...
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by Mark Sullivan
The U.S. National Park Service celebrates its centennial in 2016 (it was created in 1916 when Congress passed the Organic Act). There are many celebrations planned, but few are likely to match the power and individuality of Wadada Leo Smith's epic six-part suite. Over the two discs (a bit over 90 minutes total playing time) Smith explores the spiritual and psychological aspects of setting aside reserves for common property for the use of American citizens--and the political dynamics involved. The ...
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by Karl Ackermann
In the last half-decade of the inspirational forty-five year career of Wadada Leo Smith, he has generated one bona fide masterpiece after another, building and expanding on the qualities that consistently push his music to an apex with no apparent upper limit. With his four-and-a-half hours Pulitzer Prize finalist Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform Records, 2012) he unleashed a succession of projects, some of epic stature, such as Occupy The World (TUM Records, 2013), The Great Lakes Suite (TUM Records, 2015), ...
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by Dan McClenaghan
Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith has a feel for the epic in his art, on recordings like: America (Tzadik Records, 2009), a duet set with drummer Jack DeJohnette; “America's Third Century Spiritual Awakening," from his first Golden Quartet (Tzadik Records, 2000) outing; Occupy The World (TUM Records, 2013), with the Finish big band, Tumo; The Great Lakes Suite (TUM Records, 2014), and his massive four disc master work, Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform Records, 2012), inspired by America's civil rights movement.
Continue ReadingJohn Lindberg / Anil Ereslan: Juggling Kukla
by John Sharpe
Bassist John Lindberg is best known for his tenure with jazz heavyweights like trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, and saxophonists Roscoe Mitchell and Anthony Braxton. Equally deserving acclaim are his own swinging but adventurous outfits such as the quartet which waxed A Tree Frog Tonality (between the lines, 2000) and The Catbird Sings (Soul Note, 2000). But none of those will prepare listeners for his duet with Turkish cellist Anil Ereslan. Across seven spontaneously created cuts on a limited edition LP, ...
Continue ReadingJazzHopRevolution: Tha Sound of Truth
by AAJ Italy Staff
Jazz e hip-hop si sono da sempre cercati, annusati, talvolta respinti, altre volte amati: così come tutti quelli che si cercano, annusano, respingono e spesso amano, più o meno consciamente tendono a usarsi reciprocamente e jazz e hip-hop non fanno eccezione, fornendosi rispettivamente qualità della base musicale a fronte di un'incisività maggiore e di un altrimenti impensabile allargamento dell'audience. Dal progetto Jazzmatazz di Guru agli straordinari esiti di alcune pagine di Steve Coleman, la liaison tra jazz e rap ha ...
Continue ReadingJohn Lindberg - Karl Berger: Duets 1
by J Hunter
Bassist John Lindberg describes his thirty-year creative partnership with pianist/vibraphonist Karl Berger as a “symbiosis," which Wikipedia defines as “the living together in... prolonged close association of members of two usually different species, with beneficial or deleterious consequences... If you accept that definition on its face and apply it to Duets 1, you must admit the results of Lindberg and Berger's collaboration have been nothing but beneficial.
Duets 1 is made up of a series of improvisational mosaics; ...
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