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Wadada Leo Smith: Luminous Axis

Read "Luminous Axis" reviewed by Farrell Lowe

by Farrell Lowe
March 12, 2003

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 ...

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The Year of the Elephant

By Wadada Leo Smith

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

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Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet: The Year of the Elephant

Read "The Year of the Elephant" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
October 5, 2002

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 ...

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Dave Douglas: Brave New World

by AAJ Staff
April 1, 2002

Trumpeter / composer Dave Douglas has been creating new worlds for listeners for the past decade. His ethereal writing style for unconventional configurations transports audiences into unfamiliar territory. These distinctive compositions combined with his astonishing technique and expressionist improvisations have brought him critical and public acclaim as a visionary of his generation. The diversity of his ...

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