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50th Birthday Celebration Volume 8

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2005
Track listing: Meridian; Rising Sign; Spirit Writing; By the Mark, Eight; Visitation; Ipsissimi; Ghost Writing; the Ascending Arc; Full Fathom Five.

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Snakish

Label: Leo Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Uncoiling; Cosmoil; Disembodyism; Over the Influence; Yopa; Black Bell Mother; Majounish; Kawami Wama; Speeds Per Coil; Neither Liquid Nor Gaseous, Torn; Green Gold Melt; Gangah Wallah; Rivers of Swan; Coiling.

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Wadada Leo Smith: Kabell Years: 1971-1979

Read "Kabell Years: 1971-1979" reviewed 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 ...

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Wadada Leo Smith: Snakish

Read "Snakish" reviewed 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 ...

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Wadada Leo Smith: Lake Biwa

Read "Lake Biwa" reviewed 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 ...

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Wadada Leo Smith/Susie Ibarra/John Zorn: 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 8

Read "50th Birthday Celebration Volume 8" reviewed 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 ...

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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

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50⁸

Label: Treader
Released: 2004

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Lake Biwa

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2004


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