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Article: Year in Review

All About Jazz: New York - Best of 2009

by AAJ Staff
January 21, 2010

Our print partner, All About Jazz: New York's annual best of New York and beyond list. Enjoy!MUSICIANS OF THE YEAR Fred Anderson (tenor saxophone) Chick Corea (keyboards) Dave Douglas (trumpet) Peter Evans (trumpet) Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) RECORD LABELS OF THE YEAR CLEAN FEED ...

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Article: Album Review

Wadada Leo Smith: Spiritual Dimensions

Read "Spiritual Dimensions" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard
January 18, 2010

For a long time, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith has pushed the boundaries of experimental jazz. The records he made during the seventies for his own Kabell label have become a richly treasured legacy of the avant-garde. Spiritual Dimensions, a two-CD set dedicated to his working bands, The Golden Quintet and Wadada Leo Smith's Organic, finds him ...

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Procession Of The Great Ancestry

By Wadada Leo Smith

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2009

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America

By Wadada Leo Smith

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2009
Track listing: America Parts 1, 2, 3; Red Trumpet; John Brown's Fort; Ed Blackwell, the Blue Mountain Sun Drummer; Rabi'a's Unconditional Love, a Spiritual Mystery of the Heart; Masnavi: The Falcon and the Owls.

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Spiritual Dimensions

By Wadada Leo Smith

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: CD1:Al-Shadhili's Litany of the Sea: Sunrise; Pacifica; Umar at the Dome of the Rock, Parts 1 & 2; Crossing Sirat; South Central L.A. Kulture. CD2: South Central L.A. Kulture; Anglela Davis; Organic; Joy: Spiritual Fire: Joy.

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Article: Album Review

Empty Cage Quartet: Gravity

by Troy Collins
December 20, 2009

Widely admired for its intricate mathematical construction, the Mayan calendar is far more than just a lightning rod for misguided prophets predicting the end of the world; it is also the source of inspiration for Gravity, the fourth studio recording from the young West Coast-based Empty Cage Quartet. The album consists of two extended compositions, which ...

Article: Album Review

Leo Smith: Spiritual Dimensions

Read "Spiritual Dimensions" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 14, 2009

Bene ha fatto Leo Smith a intitolare questo poderoso compendio del suo lavoro più recente Spiritual Dimensions, perché pochi improvvisatori sulla scena possono oggi vantare la forza e la profondità spirituali che lo caratterizzano. Spiritual Dimensions esemplifica, in due diverse sedute di registrazione, le apparentemente diverse strade che oggi percorre il trombettista: da un lato il ...

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Article: Album Review

Wadada Leo Smith: Spiritual Dimensions

Read "Spiritual Dimensions" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
November 30, 2009

Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith blows in two different directions on this two-CD set, Spiritual Dimensions. The recording is comprised of two live sets, one by Wadada Leo Smith's ongoing Golden Quintet, the second by his new Wadada Leo Smith's Organic. The Golden Quartet, recently expanded to quintet, changes players with time. The line-up that ...

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News: Recording

Celebrate Cuneiform Records Download Week: Free MP3s by Wadada Leo Smith, Ergo, Zevious, Jason Adasiewic and Beat Circus

October 27, 2009

Download five free MP3s courtesy of Cuneiform Records. She Haunts Me (3:41) Ergo From: Multitude, Solitude Cuneiform Records South Central L.A. Kulture (4:50) Wadada Leo Smith From: Spiritual Dimensions Cuneiform Records Where's the Captain? (5:10) Zevious ...