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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 ...
Wadada Leo Smith: Kabell Years 1971-1979
by Rex Butters
Wadada Leo Smith Kabell Years 1971-1979 Tzadik 2004 John Zorn's Tzadik label continues to honor the genius of Wadada Leo Smith, this time with a crucial collection of material he recorded and released himself on his Kabell label in the seventies. This four-CD box set gathers Creative Music ...
Wadada Leo Smith: Kabell Years 1971-1979
by Rex Butters
John Zorn's Tzadik label continues to honor the genius of Wadada Leo Smith, this time with a crucial collection of material he recorded and released himself on his Kabell label in the seventies. This four-CD box set gathers Creative Music 1, Reflectativity, Song of Humanity, and Ahkreanvention, plus over two hours of unreleased material. ...
Luminous Axis
Label: Tzadik
Released: 2003
Track listing: Garden of the Heart; Perfect Essence; Radiant Light Gushing from the Sun; Night Splendor A Certain Moon Flow; Tango; Beauty; Fountain Inmortality; Garden of the Soul; Apples Dates and Pomegranates; Light Ginger Olives and Musk; Harp A Gleaming Sama; Fountain Lore; Camphor; Caravans of Winter and Summer 1515; The Traveler.
A Fireside Chat With Wadada Leo Smith
by AAJ Staff
Free jazz denotes an idiom and has little to do with freedom. John Litweiler’s The Freedom Principle chronicles how Leo Smith, born in Leland, Mississippi, a hub for the blues, entered into the service (outspoken of racial conditions in the army), discovered Don Cherry, moved to Chicago, joined the AACM, and developed into a standard for ...
Wadada Leo Smith: Luminous Axis
by Farrell Lowe
Wadada Leo Smith has been a leading proponent of the creation of a new world music since the late '60s, in confluence with Chicago's AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians). Much like Don Cherry, Smith draws from a broad palate of world musics, and he's a musical pioneer of the highest order.Luminous ...
The Year of the Elephant
Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2002
Track listing: Al-Madinah, Piru, The Zamzam Well a Stream of Pure Light, Kangaroo's
Hollow, The Year of the Elephant, Miles Star in Thre Parts
Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet: The Year of the Elephant
by Dan McClenaghan
Trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith put out a CD entitled Yo Miles! a couple of years back, so his debt to the Dark Prince, Miles Davis, is no secret. On this, The Year of the Elephant, his second CD with his Golden Quartet, Mile's influence, especially the sound of the late sixties through late seventies, pervades. In ...
