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A Different Drummer, Part 5: Terri Lyne Carrington
by Karl Ackermann
In her 2003 Carnegie Mellon University paper Experience West African Drumming: A Study of West African Dance-Drumming and Women Drummers, Leslie Marie Mullins explains that drumming was explicitly the territory of male musicians in West Africa. Mullins reveals that several myths were employed to keep women and drums far apart. Among them, Ghanaian women were thought ...
Archie Shepp: Blase And Yasmina Revisited
by Chris May
The three albums tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded in Paris for BYG Records during one week in August 1969 tend to get overlooked in the slipstream of the dozen or so he made in the US for Impulse earlier in the decade. More is the pity, for as Blasé And Yasmina Revisited so resoundingly attests, the ...
Wadada Leo Smith: Aesthetic Apex
by Doug Collette
It would be difficult to find a musician more loyal to his muse than Wadada Leo Smith. From projects with his Golden Quartet/Quintet such as America's National Parks (TUM Records, 2016) to the more expansive ensemble effort Najwa (TUM Records, 2017), then on to the stringent focus of Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk (TUM Records, ...
Miles Davis, Bill Laswell, John McLaughlin, Bob Berg, Kai Eckhardt and more
by Len Davis
On today's program we feature music from a live concert from Warsaw with Miles Davis, Jack DeJohnette, plus John McLaughlin and Jimmy Herring from a live concert in San Francisco and Larry Coryell, Victor Bailey and Lenny White. Playlist Miles Davis “Hopscotch" from Live in Poland Warsaw 1983 (Gambit) 00:00 Jack DeJohnette “Miles" from ...
Wadada Leo Smith, The Red Microphone & Clean Feed Releases
by Maurice Hogue
Trumpet master and composer Wadada Leo Smith continues to produce astonishing original music. Zeroing in on the age of 80 seems to have no impact. There are two new releases from the Finnish Tum label to show Smith's creativity: Sacred Ceremonies with Bill Laswell and Milford Graves and the other a solo set. Some of Clean ...
Gerald Gradwohl, Tigran Hamasyan, Adam Holzman and much more
by Len Davis
New releases featuring Gerald Gradwohl, Tigran Hamasyan, Adam Holzman and challenging music from Arcana, a re-release of Arc of the Testimony from 1997 featuring Bill Laswell and Tony Williams, Plus a new one from Zane Carney.Playlist Gerald Gradwohl “Let's Talk" from Episode 6 (Self Produced) 00:00 Tigran Hamasyan “Revisiting The Film" from Revisiting The ...
Wadada Leo Smith: Trumpet
by Karl Ackermann
In a half-century of recording, he has never stopped exploring the parameters of the form and instrument. Listening to composer/trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith is demanding but rewarding. His inspirations are classical in the small 'c' sense: the AACM, Persian music, August Wilson, Stravinsky, spirituals, and so on. Before the masses woke, Smith's music had incorporated political, ...
Social Justice – A Fire for Reimagining the World
Album: Sacred Ceremonies
By Wadada Leo Smith
Label: TUM Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 6:31
Wadada Leo Smith, Bill Laswell, and Milford Graves: Sacred Ceremonies & Trumpet
by Mike Jurkovic
The 1960's and '70s held such promise, but many artists settle for what is handed down. Two new box sets featuring Wadada Leo Smith with Bill Laswell and Milford Graves show three visionaries willing to build on those promises without compromise. Wadada Leo Smith with MIlford Graves and Bill Laswell Sacred Ceremonies
Wadada Leo Smith with Milford Graves and Bill Laswell: Sacred Ceremonies
by Karl Ackermann
As he approached his eightieth birthday, Wadada Leo Smith could have been content to sit out the year of nothingness that Covid-19 brought in 2020 and beyond. With his 2013 Pulitzer Prize nomination, a 2016 Doris Duke Award, and nearly one-hundred recording credits, the trumpeter & multi-instrumentalist has landed at the top of countless polls throughout ...
