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Wadada Leo Smith / Gunter Baby Sommer: Wisdom In Time

Read "Wisdom In Time" reviewed by Nic Jones


This program of duo performances by trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and drummer Gunter Baby Sommer is both the renewal on record of a long-standing musical relationship and at the same time a kind of homage to their fallen comrade, the bassist Peter Kowald, whose death robbed the improvised music scene of one of its stalwarts. Amongst ...

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Wadada Leo Smith: Wisdom in Time & Brooklyn Duos

Read "Wadada Leo Smith: Wisdom in Time & Brooklyn Duos" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk


Wadada Leo Smith/Gunter Baby Sommer Wisdom in Time Intakt 2007 John Coxon/Wadada Leo Smith Brooklyn Duos Treader 2007 The duo of Wadada Leo Smith and Günter Baby ...

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John Coxon / Wadada Leo Smith: Brooklyn Duos

Read "Brooklyn Duos" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


John Coxon of the British drum n' bass duo Spring Heel Jack first collaborated with American trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith on the duo's last and most challenging and fully realized effort, The Sweetness of The Water (Thirsty Ear, 2004). This release was recorded a year later in Brooklyn by John Zorn collaborator Jamie Saft.

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Wadada Leo Smith - Gunter Baby Sommer: Wisdom in Time

Read "Wisdom in Time" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Come la maggior parte dei dischi impro anche Wisdom in Time ha la sua (retro)storia, ossia un percorso, delle vicende e degli incontri tra i due protagonisti, Wadada Leo Smith e Gunter Baby Sommer, che sottendono la musica vera e propria. Già proprio quella che quando la si ascolta fa dimenticare tutto, ma proprio tutto, dando ...

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Compassion

Label: Meta Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Beauty: Aquamarine Night; Sun Ray Colors and Rainbow Images; Fragrance of Light; Love Rhythms, Heart Songs; Song of Humanity; Silver Dream Circle; The Caller and the Called.

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Wadada Leo Smith & Adam Rudolph: Compassion

Read "Compassion" reviewed by Florence Wetzel


Compassion, a beautiful duet recording by Wadada Leo Smith and Adam Rudolph, provides a welcome addition to jazz' long tradition of spiritual expression. Recorded live in 2002 at a concert in Venice, California, the disc features Smith on trumpet and flugelhorn, and Rudolph on handrumset, dusu'ngoni, sibsi, vocal, kalimbas, gongs, cymbals and percussion. ...

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Wadada Leo Smith and Adam Rudolph: Compassion

Read "Compassion" reviewed by Rex  Butters


Long-time occasional collaborators Wadada Leo Smith and Adam Rudolph perform improvised/composed duets from a 2002 performance live at Venice's Electric Lodge on Compassion, newly released on Rudolph's Meta Records. Both are masters of their mediums: Rudolph plays a variety of percussion instruments and at least one wind instrument to sonically shade, color, and texturize; Smith uses ...

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Wadada Leo Smith: Lake Biwa and Snakish

Read "Wadada Leo Smith: Lake Biwa and Snakish" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk


Wadada Leo Smith Lake Biwa Tzadik 2004 Wadada Leo Smith Snakish Leo 2005 The only thing that's really predictable about trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith is that, whatever he takes on, ...

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Kabell Years: 1971-1979

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2005
Track listing: CD1: 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. CD2: Reflectativity; t wmukl ? D; North American Stomp; Visions; Transcendental Suite. CD3: Song of Humanity; Lexicon; Peacocks, Gazelles, Dogwood Trees & Six Silver Coins; Of Blues and Dreams; Pneuma; Tempio; Play Ebony Play Ivory. CD4: Life Sequence 1; Love is a Rare Beauty: Movements 1?5; Aura; Ankrasmation; Atoke; Fana; The Zebra Goes Wild.

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Lake Biwa

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2005
Track listing: Lake Biwa; Sanai's Enclosed Garden of the Truth; Diamondback Serpent in a House; Africana World.


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