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America's National Parks
Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: CD 1: New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718; Eileen Jackson
Southern, 1920-2002: A Literary National Park; Yellowstone: The First National
Park And The Spirit Of America—The Mountains, Super-Volcano Caldera And Its
Ecosystem 1872. CD2: The Mississippi River: Dark and Deep Dreams Flow the
river—A National Memorial Park c. 5000 BC; Sequoia/King's Canyon National
Parks: The Giant Forest, Great Canyon, Cliff, Peaks, Waterfalls and Cave
System 1890; Yosemite: The Glaciers, The Falls, The Wells And The Valley of
Goodwill 1890.
Wadada Leo Smith: America's National Parks
by John Sharpe
While the title might conjure up a string of luminous tone poems, the reality of trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith's magisterial collection goes far beyond that. In fact Smith's notion of a national park encompasses not only the iconic landscapes, but also literary and cultural features. In any case as he explains, he draws his inspiration from ...
Wadada Leo Smith: America's National Parks
by Troy Collins
2016 marks the centennial anniversary of the U.S. National Park Service. In honor of this auspicious occasion, celebrated trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith composed a titular six-part suite for the Golden Quintet, an augmented version of his long-running flagship quartet. Rather than simply attempting to transpose scenic vistas and natural grandeur into pure sound, Smith explains in ...
Wadada Leo Smith: America's National Parks
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 ...
Wadada Leo Smith: America's National Parks
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 ...
Wadada Leo Smith: America's National Parks
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 ...
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