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Wadada Leo Smith: Kabell Years: 1971-1979
by Jeff Stockton
In 1971, four years after Coltrane's death, the hole that was left in jazz was intimidating. Ayler, Sanders, Taylor, et al. had pushed free music as loud and as far out as they could, and once dissonance and tumult had made themselves at home, the next generation responded not with more noise, but with silence. Trumpeter ...
Wadada Leo Smith: Snakish
by Rex Butters
Of all the avant-garde players from his generation, Wadada Leo Smith easily ranks among the most insightful collaborators with electronic musicians. His willingness to include electrified lexicon in his musical language now yields Snakish, a surprising soundscape created with a band culled from the Cal/Arts faculty, including guitarist Miroslav Tadic and electrician Walter Quintus, as well ...
Wadada Leo Smith: Lake Biwa
by Rex Butters
Lake Biwa presents Wadada Leo Smith's Silver Orchestra in four pieces that showcase the composer's startling originality and lofty inspiration. Peopled by some of New York's finest, including Anthony Coleman, Susie Ibarra, Marc Ribot, Craig Taborn, and John Zorn, the Orchestra moves through Smith's bright landscapes with grace and color, the soloists outright shredding when the ...
Wadada Leo Smith/Susie Ibarra/John Zorn: 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 8
by Rex Butters
More live recordings from the Month of Zorn, a run of concerts celebrating the iconoclastic altoist's 50th birthday, this one encoding two very different sets. The first series features duets with percussion dakini Susie Ibarra. Ibarra abandons the more measured performances of recent Tzadik CDs and returns to the firestorm approach from her days with the ...
Kabell Years 1971-1979
Label: Tzadik
Released: 2004
Track listing: disc 1: Nine (9) Stones on a Mountain; Improvisation No. 4; Creative Music - 1; aFmie - Poem DancE 3; Ogotommeli: Dogon Sage; Ep - 1; Ngoma: Gravity and Lightwaves; Seeds; Zekr; Until the Fire.
disc 2: Reflectativity; t wmukl - D; North American Stomp; Visions; Transcendental Suite.
disc 3: Song of Humanity; Lexicon; Peacocks, Gazelles, Dogwood Trees & Six Silver Coins; Of Blues and Dreams; Pneuma; Tempio; Play Ebony Play Ivory.
disc 4: Life Sequence 1; Love is a Rare Beauty: Movements 1-5; Aura; Ankrasmation; Atoke; Fana; The Zebra Goes Wild
A Fireside Chat with Wadada Leo Smith
by AAJ Staff
I am reminded daily that perfection is an endless pursuit and that those who are in the arena often go unnoticed and unrewarded. But it is because of their artistic valor that creativity remains. Their innovative spirit keeps us from the abyss and for that we are beholden to them. All About Jazz: What disciplines did ...
