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Wadada Leo Smith

Born: December 18, 1941

ISHMAEL WADADA LEO SMITH trumpet-player, multi- instrumentalist, composer and improviser has been active in the creative contemporary world music for over thirty years. His theory of Jazz and World music was significant in his music development as an artist and educator. Born in Leland, Mississippi, Smith's early musical life began in the high school concert and marching bands. At the age of thirteen, he became immersed within the Delta Blues and Improvisation music traditions. He received his formal musical education with his father, the U.S. Military band program (1963), Sherwood School of Music (1967-69), and Wesleyan University (1975-76). As an Improvisor-Composer, Smith has studied a variety of music cultures (African, Japanese, Indonesian, European and American) and has developed a Jazz and world music theory, and a notation system to fully express this music which he calls "Ankhrasmation". He has taught at the University of New Haven 1975-'76, the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, NY

Duologues 5

By Ivo Perelman

Label: Ibeji
Released: 2026
Track listing: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6; Part 7.

Constellations and Hemispheres

By Wadada Leo Smith

Label: Burning Ambulance Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: Dark Energy; Lake Tanganyika; Dark Matter, Particles of Light, Mirror of the Unseen; Deep Canyons On Mars; Meditation On Love.

The Papyrus of Ani

By Joe Fonda

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: Bobby Naughton, A Requiem Memorial for a Friend; No Cage; The Egyptian Obelisk In Central Park NYC, for Lamar, Ndasia, Jaya and Belle; Relentlessness for Maciej; The Papyrus of Ani, C. 1250 BCE, The 19th Dynasty - a remembrance of Assata Olugbala Shakur (7.16.47-9.25.2025); Carry On.

Live in Brooklyn 1992-2002

By Jeffrey Schanzer

Label: Neuma Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Rain Flowers, Vertical Spears and Diamond Sunrays

Allen Lowe, ROVA, John Dikeman & Jeff Cosgrove

by Maurice Hogue
November 2, 2026

Saxophonist & music historian Allen Lowe has a new three-CD release that's extremely interesting. I Should Have Stayed Dead contains the music that is part of a new documentary film about Lowe's music and battle with cancer. With post-production problems delaying the release of the film, a decision was made to release the music. Guests like ...

Sylvie Courvoisier: Amalthea

by Jack Kenny
November 1, 2026

This quartet shares its instrumentation with the Modern Jazz Quartet: piano, vibraphone, double bass and drums. Yet listening closely to the two groups reveals how far jazz has travelled between 1950 and now. Like John Lewis, Sylvie Courvoisier has an allegiance to European art music; where the MJQ cultivated poised, contrapuntal elegance, Amalthea favours abrupt changes ...

Wadada Leo Smith: A Trumpeter Composing in Light

by Lawrence Peryer
October 31, 2026

Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto: Fifteen

by Giuseppe Segala
October 19, 2026

Due protagonisti di rilievo della scena contemporanea di generazione diversa, Henry Threadgill e Vijay Iyer, presentano un album che li vede uniti per la prima volta, dopo una collaborazione dal vivo che dura da quindici anni con questo trio, completato da Dafnis Prieto alla batteria. Fifteen, recita appunto il titolo del disco. Tra le ...

Roberto Magris Celebrates Twenty Years With JMood Plus New Releases

by Bob Osborne
October 7, 2026

JMood Records, the Kansas City jazz label, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. To mark this special occasion, five new CDs were released simultaneously on September 1, 2026, they all feature Roberto Magris, a track from each release is included in the show. In between those tracks there are brand new releases from across the ...