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Ancestors

Label: TUM Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Moholo-Moholo/Golden Spirit; No Name In The Street, James Baldwin; Jackson Pollock, Action; Siholaro; Ancestors.

Album

Dark Lady of the Sonnets

By Wadada Leo Smith

Label: TUM Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: 01. Sarah Bell Wallace; 02. Blues: Cosmic Beauty; 03. Zulu Water Festival; 04. Dark Lady of the Sonnets; 05. Mbira.

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Screaming in Daytime (Makes Men Forget)

By Wadada Leo Smith

Label: pfMentum
Released: 2012
Track listing: 01. Gifts We Have Forgotten; 02. Notated Memory; 03. Black on White Paper; 04. This Seeming Dream; 05. Musa Physics.

Album

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: CD1: Dred Scott, 1857; Malik Al Shabazz and the People of the Shahada; Emmett Till: Defiant, Fearless; Thurgood Marshall and Brown Vs. Board of Education: A Dream of Equal Education, 1954; John F. Kennedy's New Frontier And The Space Age, 1960. CD2: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 381 Days; Black Church; Freedom Summer: Voter Registration, Acts Of Compassion and Empowerment, 1964; Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. CD3: The Freedom Riders Ride; Medgar Evers: A Love-Voice of a Thousand Years' Journey for Liberty and Justice; The D.C. Wall: A War Memorial for All Times; Buzzsaw: The Myth of a Free Press; The Little Rock Nine: A Force for Desegregation in Education, 1957. CD4: America, Pts. 1, 2 & 3; September 11th, 2001: A Memorial; Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1964; Democracy; Martin Luther King, Jr.: Memphis, The Prophecy.

Article: Year in Review

John Sharpe’s Best Releases of 2012

by John Sharpe
December 26, 2012

Here are ten new releases which stood out this year: Wadada Leo Smith Ten Freedom Summers Cuneiform Without a doubt, Ten Freedom Summers is the crowning achievement of trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith's distinguished career to date. Years in the making, the complete sequence of 19 ...

Article: Album Review

Wadada Leo Smith & Louis Moholo-Moholo: Ancestors

Read "Ancestors" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
December 17, 2012

Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo are grand old men in the annals of adventurous jazz, having played in a dizzying variety of settings through more than five decades. More to the point, both have amply shown a capacity for nuanced playing in demanding, interactive improvisational formats. An intimate duet performance by the pair, ...

Article: Album Review

Wadada Leo Smith - Louis Moholo-Moholo: Ancestors

Read "Ancestors" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 17, 2012

Mai titolo fu più centrato di questo: ancestrale, storico e ampiamente storicizzato, è il ruolo giocato dai due protagonisti di questo bellissimo album nell'evolversi di un jazz di ricerca degli ultimi quarantacinque anni o giù di lì, e ancestrale è il tono stesso del disco, con quel misto di solennità e ritualismo che magistralmente si addice ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura: Emotional Intimacy, Musical Breadth

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
December 12, 2012

Natsuki Tamura & Satoko FujiiMukuLibra2012Gato LibreForeverLibra2012Pianist Satoko Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, wife and husband, maintain a staggering productivity, in terms of quantity, quality--and, most incredibly, in terms of variety. At one moment, they lead a powerful post-free ensemble; When ...

Article: Live Review

Angel City Jazz Festival: Hollywood, CA, Oct. 5, 2012

by Chuck Koton
November 11, 2012

Angel City Jazz FestivalJohn Anson Ford AmphitheaterHollywood, CAOctober 7, 2012A bright, golden sun, cobalt sky and cool breeze welcomed Southland jazz lovers to the friendly confines of the John Anson Ford Amphitheater for the fifth annual Angel City Jazz Festival. Eagerly anticipated by serious and passionate jazz aficionados, the festival's founder, ...

Article: Album Review

Zen Widow – Wadada Leo Smith: Screaming in Daytime (Makes Men Forget)

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 9, 2012

Quel giramondo di Gianni Gebbia, compone ormai da diversi anni, fra i tanti, un gruppo con i californiani Matthew Goodheart e Garth Powell denominato Zen Widow, che in questo lavoro ha la ventura di ospitare un'icona come Wadada. Ne vien fuori un quartetto ottimamente coeso, in cui l'illustre ospite non si comporta affatto come tale, entrando ...