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Wadada Leo Smith - "New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718" [Excerpt] from 'America's National Parks' (out now on Cuneiform Records)
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"Smith uses his magisterial instrumental voice, his inspirational leadership and his command of classical, jazz and blues forms to remind us of what has gone down and what's still happening."
– DownBeat’s 80 Coolest Things in Jazz Today
"A trumpeter and composer of penetrating insight."
– Nate Chinen, The New York Times
Wadada Leo Smith – trumpet, director of the ensemble
Anthony Davis – piano
Ashley Walters – cello
John Lindberg – bass
Pheeroan akLaff – drums
With America’s National Parks, visionary composer and Wadada Leo Smith offers his latest epic collection, a suite inspired by the scenic splendor, historic legacy, and political controversies of the country’s public landscapes. Writing for his newly expanded Golden Quintet, Smith crafts six extended works that explore, confront and question the preserved natural resources that are considered the most hallowed ground in the U.S. – and some that should be.
America’s National Parks was released shortly before Smith’s 75th birthday in December, arriving, coincidentally, in the midst of celebrations for the centennial of the National Park Service, which was created by an act of Congress on August 25, 1916. The spark for the project, however, came from two places: Smith’s own research into the National Park system, beginning with Yellowstone, the world’s first national park; and Ken Burns’ 12-hour documentary series The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.
trumpeter six-movement"The idea that Ken Burns explored in that documentary was that the grandeur of nature was like a religion or a cathedral," Smith says. "I reject that image because the natural phenomenon in creation, just like man and stars and light and water, is all one thing, just a diffusion of energy. My focus is on the spiritual and psychological dimensions of the idea of setting aside reserves for common property of the American citizens."
His 28-page score for America’s National Parks was penned for his Golden Quintet, a fresh reconfiguration of the quartet that’s been a keystone of his expression for the last 16 years. Pianist Anthony Davis, bassist John Lindberg and drummer Pheeroan akLaff are joined by cellist Ashley Walters, affording the composer and bandleader new melodic and coloristic possibilities. "The cello as a lead voice with the trumpet is magnificent," Smith says, "but when you look at the possibilities for melodic formation with the trumpet, the cello, the piano and the bass, that’s paradise for a composer and for a performer."
While these preserved landscapes offer the inspiration of powerful natural beauty, Smith’s always open-minded view of the world leads him to find that same inspiration wherever he is. "Every concrete house is from nature," he says. "Every plastic airplane that flies 300 people across the ocean comes out of nature. Every air conditioner conditions a natural piece of air. I think that the human being is constantly enfolded in organic nature and constructed nature, so I’m constantly inspired, inside the house or outside the house."
Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith is a boldly original figure in American jazz and one of the great trumpet players of our time. Smith’s classic Golden Quartet line-up features legendary improvisers Anthony Davis, John Lindberg, and Pheeroan akLaff, and AllMusic calls it “jazz that is so fresh and well executed as to define and remind what’s great about listening to the music.”
- published: 07 Jan 2016
- views: 3918
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke
Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Vijay Iyer: piano, Fender Rhodes piano, electronics
Released in March 2016 – Available on CD / Download
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke features pianist Viay Iyer and the musician he has described as his “hero, friend and teacher”, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith’s Golden Quartet, but the present album is the first documentation of their duo work, produced by Manfred Eicher at New York’s Avatar Studios in October 2015. The centre-piece of the album is the spellbinding title suite, dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990), the innovative Indian artist whose improvisatory imagery evokes abstracted rhythms. Trumpet and piano interact here with creative sensitivity to tone, texture and space. Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith will be premiering A cosmic rhythm with each stroke at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in March 2016 in the context of a major exhibition dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi’s art and writings. The “suite for Nasreen” is framed on the album by Iyer’s composition “Passage” and Smith’s concluding piece “Marian Anderson”, inspired by the great US contralto.
ECM 2486
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- published: 10 Feb 2016
- views: 37381
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith
a cosmic rhythm with each stroke
Vijay Iyer: Piano, Fender Rhodes, Electronics
Wadada Leo Smith: Trumpet
"a cosmic rhythm with each stroke" features pianist Viay Iyer and the musician he has described as his “hero, friend and teacher”, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith’s Golden Quartet, but the present album is the first documentation of their duo work, produced by Manfred Eicher at New York’s Avatar Studios in October 2015. The centre-piece of the album is the spellbinding title suite, dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990), the innovative Indian artist whose improvisatory imagery evokes abstracted rhythms. Trumpet and piano interact here with creative sensitivity to tone, texture and space. Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith will be premiering a cosmic rhythm with each stroke at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in March 2016 in the context of a major exhibition dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi’s art and writings. The “suite for Nasreen” is framed on the album by Iyer’s composition “Passage” and Smith’s concluding piece “Marian Anderson”, inspired by the great US contralto.
ECM 2486
https://www.ecmrecords.com
- published: 14 Mar 2016
- views: 65175
"Martin Luther King, Jr." by Wadada Leo Smith from the album 'Ten Freedom Summers' (Cuneiform Records).
Purchase now at:
Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Freedom-Sum...
iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ten...
Bandcamp - http://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/...
Wayside - http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pro...
Album Personnel:
Wadada Leo Smith - composer, trumpet
Anthony Davis - piano
John Lindberg - bass
Pheeroan akLaff - drums
Susie Ibarra - drums
Trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith’s Ten Freedom Summers is the work of a lifetime by one of jazz’s true visionaries, a kaleidoscopic, spiritually charged opus inspired by the struggle for African-American freedom and equality before the law. Triumphant and mournful, visceral and philosophical, searching, scathing and relentlessly humane, Smith’s music embraces the turbulent era’s milestones while celebrating the civil rights movement’s heroes and martyrs. This four-disc set documents a stunning, career-capping accomplishment by a jazz giant in the midst of an astonishing creative surge.
An orchestral collaboration with the acclaimed eight-piece ensemble Southwest Chamber Music (harp, clarinet, 2 violins, cello, flute, viola, bass, percussion) conducted by Grammy Award-winner Jeff von der Schmidt, Ten Freedom Summers is built upon Smith’s celebrated Golden Quartet featuring pianist Anthony Davis, bassist John Lindberg, drummer Susie Ibarra and/or drummer Pheeroan akLaaf (who often expands the ensemble to a quintet). As a child of the Deep South who was raised in the red-hot crucible of the civil rights movement, Smith traces the project’s origins back to 1977, when he wrote “Medgar Evers,” an expansive evocation of the NAACP activist gunned down in Mississippi 14 years earlier.
Working in fits and starts, Smith completed the 19-piece project 34 years later in October of 2011 with a portentous, elegiac piece for Southwest Chamber Music. In designing the huge, multi-movement work, he focused on the transformative decade framed by the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
"I was born in 1941 and grew up in segregated Mississippi and experienced the conditions which made it imperative for an activist movement for equality,” says Smith says, who marked his 70th birthday with a presentation of this, perhaps his most ambitious undertaking. “I saw that stuff happening. Those are the moments that triggered this. It was in that same environment that I had my first dreams of becoming a composer and performer.”
After decades of being revered by his peers and colleagues, Smith is attaining his rightful place at the forefront of American music. Ten Freedom Summers is an important work that combines unique, fully scored rigorous passages and great improvisational skills into one huge and cohesive work. It is a thrilling, emotionally charged and satisfying work from a master.
"Smith has called “Ten Freedom Summers” his “defining life’s work” and it, likewise, has been hailed everywhere from Downbeat magazine to the British Broadcasting Corporation as his masterpiece."
-Will Stewart, Ann Arbor News
"This is reflective of the times that Smith grew up in. As a 70-year-old man, he has both seen and felt the civil rights struggles that have helped to shape the course of American history in the 20th century, and rather than use these as a provocation for something purely rhetorical, he has utilized them in his art, and thus overtly yet subtly indicated their profundity."
-Nic Jones, AllAboutJazz
"Smith’s own playing is as razor-focused and regal as ever, moving from stentorian salvos to intricate muted passages and covering the full brass spectrum in-between with persistent stamina and creativity. His role is one of equal-footing ensemble participant rather than that of dominant alpha-male leader, a Zen-like temperament that carries over into the natural ebb and flow of the compositions."
-Derek Taylor, DustedMagazine
For more information:
http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/
http://twitter.com/cuneiformrecord
http://www.facebook.com/cuneiformrecords
https://www.instagram.com/cuneiformre...
- published: 15 Mar 2013
- views: 20401
Filmed by Helen Petts at Freedom of the City festival, 2010, London. See also http://youtu.be/1QzBTnbcAtY
If you want to link this clip please contact me for permission. www.helenpetts.com
- published: 03 May 2010
- views: 6296
Due appassionati e appassionanti poeti e esploratori dei suoni e dell’improvvisazione: Vijay Iyer e Wadada Leo Smith spingono la musica improvvisata verso nuove frontiere, varcate con la funambolica capacità creativa di chi è in possesso delle chiavi di accesso di arcani sistemi lessicali.
Musica che sa agire attraverso nuove concezioni del tempo e dello spazio, in un dialogo fitto e intenso che sa però trovare nuove libertà, nuova scioltezza, nuovi terreni d’incontro. Un duo che sa liberare la musica da lacci e lacciuoli per entrare nel campo della pura libertà poetica.
- published: 15 Jan 2017
- views: 209
Tribute to Miles Davis. From the album "Yo Miles!" (Shanachie, 1998)
- published: 10 Mar 2013
- views: 7553
Wadada Leo Smith
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (born December 18, 1941) is an American trumpeter and composer, working primarily in the fields of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation. He was one of three finalists for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music for Ten Freedom Summers, released on May 22, 2012.
Biography
Smith was born in Leland, Mississippi. He started out playing drums, mellophone, and French horn before he settled on the trumpet. He played in various R&B groups and by 1967 became a member of the AACM and co-founded the Creative Construction Company, a trio with Leroy Jenkins and Anthony Braxton. In 1971, Smith formed his own label, Kabell. He also formed another band, the New Dalta Ahkri, with members including Henry Threadgill, Anthony Davis and Oliver Lake.
In the 1970s, Smith studied ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University. He played again with Anthony Braxton, as well as recording with Derek Bailey's Company. In the mid-1980s, Smith became Rastafarian and began using the name Wadada. In 1993, he began teaching at Cal Arts, a position he held until 2014. In addition to trumpet and flugelhorn, Smith plays several world music instruments, including the koto, kalimba, and atenteben (Ghanaian bamboo flute). He has also taught courses in instrument making. His compositions often use a graphic notation system he calls "Ankhrasmation", which he developed in 1970.
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Leo Smith
Leo Smith may refer to:
See also
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Vijay Iyer
Vijay Iyer (born October 26, 1971) is an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, producer, electronic musician, and writer based in New York. He is a 2013 MacArthur Fellow, and became the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts at Harvard University in early 2014.
Early life
Born in Albany, New York, and raised in Fairport, New York, United States, Vijay Iyer is the son of Indian Tamil immigrants to the US. He received 15 years of Western classical training on violin beginning at the age of 3. He began playing the piano by ear in his childhood and is mostly self-taught on that instrument.
Later life and career
After completing an undergraduate degree in mathematics and physics at Yale University, Iyer attended the University of California, Berkeley, initially to pursue a doctorate in physics. Iyer continued to pursue his musical interests, playing in ensembles led by drummers E. W. Wainwright and Donald Bailey. In 1994 he started working with Steve Coleman and George E. Lewis. In 1995, concurrent to his composing, recording and touring activities, he left the Berkeley physics department and assembled an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Technology and the Arts, focusing on music cognition. His 1998 dissertation, titled Microstructures of Feel, Macrostructures of Sound: Embodied Cognition in West African and African-American Musics, applied the dual frameworks of embodied cognition and situated cognition to music. His graduate advisor was music perception and computer music researcher David Wessel, with further guidance from Olly Wilson, George E. Lewis, Donald Glaser, and Erv Hafter.
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Smith
People
Occupations
- Blacksmith or ironsmith, a metalsmith who creates objects from wrought iron or steel
- Coppersmith or redsmith, a person who makes artifacts from copper
- Goldsmith, a metalworker who specializes in working with gold and other precious metals
- Silversmith, a craftsman who crafts objects from silver or gold
- Tinsmith, a person who makes and repairs things made of light-coloured metal, particularly tinware
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Golden Quartet
Golden Quartet is an album by American jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith which was recorded in 2000 and released on Tzadik Records. It was the debut recording by the eponymous ensemble featuring pianist Anthony Davis, bassist Malachi Favors and drummer Jack DeJohnette.
Reception
In her review for AllMusic, Joslyn Layne states "Golden Quartet is Wadada Leo Smith's strongest date as a leader in quite some time and certainly is his best among his releases on Tzadik."
The Penguin Guide to Jazz notes "On 'Celestial Sky and All the Magic', Smith demonstrates again how much he owes to Miles Davis, but also how far he has travelled beyond."
Track listing
Personnel
References
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12:13Wadada Leo Smith - New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718 [Excerpt]
Wadada Leo Smith - New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718 [Excerpt]Wadada Leo Smith - New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718 [Excerpt]
Wadada Leo Smith - "New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718" [Excerpt] from 'America's National Parks' (out now on Cuneiform Records) Purchase now @ Amazon: http://amzn.to/2ew3J6M iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/americas-national-parks/id1160482622 Bandcamp: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks Bandcamp [HD]: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks-hd-96k-24b Wayside Music: http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Products/Smith-Wadada-Leo-Americas-National-Parks-2-x-CDs__Rune-spc-430-431.aspx "Smith uses his magisterial instrumental voice, his inspirational leadership and his command of classical, jazz and blues forms to remind us of what has gone down and what's still happening." – DownBeat’s 80 Coolest Things in Jazz Today "A trumpeter and composer of penetrating insight." – Nate Chinen, The New York Times Wadada Leo Smith – trumpet, director of the ensemble Anthony Davis – piano Ashley Walters – cello John Lindberg – bass Pheeroan akLaff – drums With America’s National Parks, visionary composer and Wadada Leo Smith offers his latest epic collection, a suite inspired by the scenic splendor, historic legacy, and political controversies of the country’s public landscapes. Writing for his newly expanded Golden Quintet, Smith crafts six extended works that explore, confront and question the preserved natural resources that are considered the most hallowed ground in the U.S. – and some that should be. America’s National Parks was released shortly before Smith’s 75th birthday in December, arriving, coincidentally, in the midst of celebrations for the centennial of the National Park Service, which was created by an act of Congress on August 25, 1916. The spark for the project, however, came from two places: Smith’s own research into the National Park system, beginning with Yellowstone, the world’s first national park; and Ken Burns’ 12-hour documentary series The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. trumpeter six-movement"The idea that Ken Burns explored in that documentary was that the grandeur of nature was like a religion or a cathedral," Smith says. "I reject that image because the natural phenomenon in creation, just like man and stars and light and water, is all one thing, just a diffusion of energy. My focus is on the spiritual and psychological dimensions of the idea of setting aside reserves for common property of the American citizens." His 28-page score for America’s National Parks was penned for his Golden Quintet, a fresh reconfiguration of the quartet that’s been a keystone of his expression for the last 16 years. Pianist Anthony Davis, bassist John Lindberg and drummer Pheeroan akLaff are joined by cellist Ashley Walters, affording the composer and bandleader new melodic and coloristic possibilities. "The cello as a lead voice with the trumpet is magnificent," Smith says, "but when you look at the possibilities for melodic formation with the trumpet, the cello, the piano and the bass, that’s paradise for a composer and for a performer." While these preserved landscapes offer the inspiration of powerful natural beauty, Smith’s always open-minded view of the world leads him to find that same inspiration wherever he is. "Every concrete house is from nature," he says. "Every plastic airplane that flies 300 people across the ocean comes out of nature. Every air conditioner conditions a natural piece of air. I think that the human being is constantly enfolded in organic nature and constructed nature, so I’m constantly inspired, inside the house or outside the house." -
56:49Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet
Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden QuartetWadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet
Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith is a boldly original figure in American jazz and one of the great trumpet players of our time. Smith’s classic Golden Quartet line-up features legendary improvisers Anthony Davis, John Lindberg, and Pheeroan akLaff, and AllMusic calls it “jazz that is so fresh and well executed as to define and remind what’s great about listening to the music.” -
5:33Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith – A cosmic rhythm with each stroke (Album EPK)
Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith – A cosmic rhythm with each stroke (Album EPK)Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith – A cosmic rhythm with each stroke (Album EPK)
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet Vijay Iyer: piano, Fender Rhodes piano, electronics Released in March 2016 – Available on CD / Download A cosmic rhythm with each stroke features pianist Viay Iyer and the musician he has described as his “hero, friend and teacher”, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith’s Golden Quartet, but the present album is the first documentation of their duo work, produced by Manfred Eicher at New York’s Avatar Studios in October 2015. The centre-piece of the album is the spellbinding title suite, dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990), the innovative Indian artist whose improvisatory imagery evokes abstracted rhythms. Trumpet and piano interact here with creative sensitivity to tone, texture and space. Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith will be premiering A cosmic rhythm with each stroke at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in March 2016 in the context of a major exhibition dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi’s art and writings. The “suite for Nasreen” is framed on the album by Iyer’s composition “Passage” and Smith’s concluding piece “Marian Anderson”, inspired by the great US contralto. ECM 2486 https://www.ecmrecords.com -
6:16Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith – Passages
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith – PassagesVijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith – Passages
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith a cosmic rhythm with each stroke Vijay Iyer: Piano, Fender Rhodes, Electronics Wadada Leo Smith: Trumpet "a cosmic rhythm with each stroke" features pianist Viay Iyer and the musician he has described as his “hero, friend and teacher”, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith’s Golden Quartet, but the present album is the first documentation of their duo work, produced by Manfred Eicher at New York’s Avatar Studios in October 2015. The centre-piece of the album is the spellbinding title suite, dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990), the innovative Indian artist whose improvisatory imagery evokes abstracted rhythms. Trumpet and piano interact here with creative sensitivity to tone, texture and space. Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith will be premiering a cosmic rhythm with each stroke at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in March 2016 in the context of a major exhibition dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi’s art and writings. The “suite for Nasreen” is framed on the album by Iyer’s composition “Passage” and Smith’s concluding piece “Marian Anderson”, inspired by the great US contralto. ECM 2486 https://www.ecmrecords.com -
34:55Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - at The Stone - Jan 25 2015
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - at The Stone - Jan 25 2015Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - at The Stone - Jan 25 2015
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8:07Wadada Leo Smith - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wadada Leo Smith - Martin Luther King, Jr.Wadada Leo Smith - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Martin Luther King, Jr." by Wadada Leo Smith from the album 'Ten Freedom Summers' (Cuneiform Records). Purchase now at: Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Freedom-Sum... iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ten... Bandcamp - http://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/... Wayside - http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pro... Album Personnel: Wadada Leo Smith - composer, trumpet Anthony Davis - piano John Lindberg - bass Pheeroan akLaff - drums Susie Ibarra - drums Trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith’s Ten Freedom Summers is the work of a lifetime by one of jazz’s true visionaries, a kaleidoscopic, spiritually charged opus inspired by the struggle for African-American freedom and equality before the law. Triumphant and mournful, visceral and philosophical, searching, scathing and relentlessly humane, Smith’s music embraces the turbulent era’s milestones while celebrating the civil rights movement’s heroes and martyrs. This four-disc set documents a stunning, career-capping accomplishment by a jazz giant in the midst of an astonishing creative surge. An orchestral collaboration with the acclaimed eight-piece ensemble Southwest Chamber Music (harp, clarinet, 2 violins, cello, flute, viola, bass, percussion) conducted by Grammy Award-winner Jeff von der Schmidt, Ten Freedom Summers is built upon Smith’s celebrated Golden Quartet featuring pianist Anthony Davis, bassist John Lindberg, drummer Susie Ibarra and/or drummer Pheeroan akLaaf (who often expands the ensemble to a quintet). As a child of the Deep South who was raised in the red-hot crucible of the civil rights movement, Smith traces the project’s origins back to 1977, when he wrote “Medgar Evers,” an expansive evocation of the NAACP activist gunned down in Mississippi 14 years earlier. Working in fits and starts, Smith completed the 19-piece project 34 years later in October of 2011 with a portentous, elegiac piece for Southwest Chamber Music. In designing the huge, multi-movement work, he focused on the transformative decade framed by the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. "I was born in 1941 and grew up in segregated Mississippi and experienced the conditions which made it imperative for an activist movement for equality,” says Smith says, who marked his 70th birthday with a presentation of this, perhaps his most ambitious undertaking. “I saw that stuff happening. Those are the moments that triggered this. It was in that same environment that I had my first dreams of becoming a composer and performer.” After decades of being revered by his peers and colleagues, Smith is attaining his rightful place at the forefront of American music. Ten Freedom Summers is an important work that combines unique, fully scored rigorous passages and great improvisational skills into one huge and cohesive work. It is a thrilling, emotionally charged and satisfying work from a master. "Smith has called “Ten Freedom Summers” his “defining life’s work” and it, likewise, has been hailed everywhere from Downbeat magazine to the British Broadcasting Corporation as his masterpiece." -Will Stewart, Ann Arbor News "This is reflective of the times that Smith grew up in. As a 70-year-old man, he has both seen and felt the civil rights struggles that have helped to shape the course of American history in the 20th century, and rather than use these as a provocation for something purely rhetorical, he has utilized them in his art, and thus overtly yet subtly indicated their profundity." -Nic Jones, AllAboutJazz "Smith’s own playing is as razor-focused and regal as ever, moving from stentorian salvos to intricate muted passages and covering the full brass spectrum in-between with persistent stamina and creativity. His role is one of equal-footing ensemble participant rather than that of dominant alpha-male leader, a Zen-like temperament that carries over into the natural ebb and flow of the compositions." -Derek Taylor, DustedMagazine For more information: http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/ http://twitter.com/cuneiformrecord http://www.facebook.com/cuneiformrecords https://www.instagram.com/cuneiformre... -
10:25Helen Petts' film of Wadada Leo Smith, Louis Moholo, Steve Noble 1.
Helen Petts' film of Wadada Leo Smith, Louis Moholo, Steve Noble 1.Helen Petts' film of Wadada Leo Smith, Louis Moholo, Steve Noble 1.
Filmed by Helen Petts at Freedom of the City festival, 2010, London. See also http://youtu.be/1QzBTnbcAtY If you want to link this clip please contact me for permission. www.helenpetts.com -
1:09:34Wadada Leo Smith Vijay Iyer - A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
Wadada Leo Smith Vijay Iyer - A Cosmic Rhythm With Each StrokeWadada Leo Smith Vijay Iyer - A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
Due appassionati e appassionanti poeti e esploratori dei suoni e dell’improvvisazione: Vijay Iyer e Wadada Leo Smith spingono la musica improvvisata verso nuove frontiere, varcate con la funambolica capacità creativa di chi è in possesso delle chiavi di accesso di arcani sistemi lessicali. Musica che sa agire attraverso nuove concezioni del tempo e dello spazio, in un dialogo fitto e intenso che sa però trovare nuove libertà, nuova scioltezza, nuovi terreni d’incontro. Un duo che sa liberare la musica da lacci e lacciuoli per entrare nel campo della pura libertà poetica. -
10:14Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith - Moja - Nne'
Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith - Moja - Nne'Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith - Moja - Nne'
Tribute to Miles Davis. From the album "Yo Miles!" (Shanachie, 1998) -
11:29Wadada Leo Smith "Until the Fire"
Wadada Leo Smith "Until the Fire"
Wadada Leo Smith
ALBUMS
- Red Hill released: 2014
- Sonic Rivers released: 2014
- Occupy the World released: 2013
- Twine Forest released: 2013
- Ancestors released: 2012
- Ten Freedom Summers released: 2012
- The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer released: 2010
- America released: 2009
- Spiritual Dimensions released: 2009
- Compassion released: 2006
- Snakish released: 2005
- Yo Miles! Sky Garden released: 2004
- Saturn, Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Sweet Embrace released: 2004
- Kabell Years: 1971-1979 released: 2004
- 50th Birthday Celebration, Volume 8 released: 2004
- Organic Resonance released: 2003
- Red Sulphur Sky released: 2001
- Reflectativity released: 2000
- Golden Quartet released: 2000
- Light Upon Light released: 1999
- Yo, Miles! released: 1998
- Tao-Njia released: 1996
- If You Want the Kernels You Have to Break the Shells released: 1982
- Touch the Earth released: 1981
- 2004-03-27: Tonic, New York City, NY, USA released:
Red Hill
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Sonic Rivers
Released 2014- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Cecil Taylor
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Twine Forest
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Ancestors
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Ten Freedom Summers
Released 2012- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Dred Scott: 1857
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The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer
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America
Released 2009- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen America, Parts 1, 2 & 3
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- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Rabi'a's Unconditional Love, a Spiritual Mystery of the Heart
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Spiritual Dimensions
Released 2009- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Al-Shadhili's Litany of the Sea: Sunrise
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Compassion
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Snakish
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Kabell Years: 1971-1979
Released 2004- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Nine (9) Stones on a Mountain
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50th Birthday Celebration, Volume 8
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Red Sulphur Sky
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Golden Quartet
Released 2000- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen DeJohnette
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Light Upon Light
Released 1999- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Moths, Flames And The Giant Sequoia Redwood Trees
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Yo, Miles!
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Touch the Earth
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Wadada Leo Smith - New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718 [Excerpt]
Wadada Leo Smith - "New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718" [Excerpt] from 'America's National Parks' (out now on Cuneiform Records) Purchase now @ Amazon: http://amzn.to/2ew3J6M iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/americas-national-parks/id1160482622 Bandcamp: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks Bandcamp [HD]: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks-hd-96k-24b Wayside Music: http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Products/Smith-Wadada-Leo-Americas-National-Parks-2-x-CDs__Rune-spc-430-431.aspx "Smith uses his magisterial instrumental voice, his inspirational leadership and his command of classical, jazz and blues forms to remind us of what has gone down and what's still happening." – DownBeat’s 80 Coolest Things in Jaz...
published: 16 Sep 2016 -
Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet
Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith is a boldly original figure in American jazz and one of the great trumpet players of our time. Smith’s classic Golden Quartet line-up features legendary improvisers Anthony Davis, John Lindberg, and Pheeroan akLaff, and AllMusic calls it “jazz that is so fresh and well executed as to define and remind what’s great about listening to the music.”
published: 07 Jan 2016 -
Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith – A cosmic rhythm with each stroke (Album EPK)
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet Vijay Iyer: piano, Fender Rhodes piano, electronics Released in March 2016 – Available on CD / Download A cosmic rhythm with each stroke features pianist Viay Iyer and the musician he has described as his “hero, friend and teacher”, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith’s Golden Quartet, but the present album is the first documentation of their duo work, produced by Manfred Eicher at New York’s Avatar Studios in October 2015. The centre-piece of the album is the spellbinding title suite, dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990), the innovative Indian artist whose improvisatory imagery evokes abstracted rhythms. Trumpet and piano interact here with creative sensitivity to tone, ...
published: 10 Feb 2016 -
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith – Passages
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith a cosmic rhythm with each stroke Vijay Iyer: Piano, Fender Rhodes, Electronics Wadada Leo Smith: Trumpet "a cosmic rhythm with each stroke" features pianist Viay Iyer and the musician he has described as his “hero, friend and teacher”, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith’s Golden Quartet, but the present album is the first documentation of their duo work, produced by Manfred Eicher at New York’s Avatar Studios in October 2015. The centre-piece of the album is the spellbinding title suite, dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990), the innovative Indian artist whose improvisatory imagery evokes abstracted rhythms. Trumpet and piano interact here with creative sensitivity to tone, texture and space. Vijay Iy...
published: 14 Mar 2016 -
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - at The Stone - Jan 25 2015
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano
published: 18 Dec 2015 -
Wadada Leo Smith - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Martin Luther King, Jr." by Wadada Leo Smith from the album 'Ten Freedom Summers' (Cuneiform Records). Purchase now at: Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Freedom-Sum... iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ten... Bandcamp - http://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/... Wayside - http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pro... Album Personnel: Wadada Leo Smith - composer, trumpet Anthony Davis - piano John Lindberg - bass Pheeroan akLaff - drums Susie Ibarra - drums Trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith’s Ten Freedom Summers is the work of a lifetime by one of jazz’s true visionaries, a kaleidoscopic, spiritually charged opus inspired by the struggle for African-American freedom and equality before the law. Triumphant and mournful, visceral and philosophical, searching, scathing and relentless...
published: 15 Mar 2013 -
Helen Petts' film of Wadada Leo Smith, Louis Moholo, Steve Noble 1.
Filmed by Helen Petts at Freedom of the City festival, 2010, London. See also http://youtu.be/1QzBTnbcAtY If you want to link this clip please contact me for permission. www.helenpetts.com
published: 03 May 2010 -
Wadada Leo Smith Vijay Iyer - A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
Due appassionati e appassionanti poeti e esploratori dei suoni e dell’improvvisazione: Vijay Iyer e Wadada Leo Smith spingono la musica improvvisata verso nuove frontiere, varcate con la funambolica capacità creativa di chi è in possesso delle chiavi di accesso di arcani sistemi lessicali. Musica che sa agire attraverso nuove concezioni del tempo e dello spazio, in un dialogo fitto e intenso che sa però trovare nuove libertà, nuova scioltezza, nuovi terreni d’incontro. Un duo che sa liberare la musica da lacci e lacciuoli per entrare nel campo della pura libertà poetica.
published: 15 Jan 2017 -
Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith - Moja - Nne'
Tribute to Miles Davis. From the album "Yo Miles!" (Shanachie, 1998)
published: 10 Mar 2013 -
Wadada Leo Smith - New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718 [Excerpt]
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- Duration: 12:13
- Updated: 16 Sep 2016
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Wadada Leo Smith - "New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718" [Excerpt] from 'America's National Parks' (out now on Cuneiform Records)
Purchase now @
Am...
Wadada Leo Smith - "New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718" [Excerpt] from 'America's National Parks' (out now on Cuneiform Records)
Purchase now @
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2ew3J6M
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/americas-national-parks/id1160482622
Bandcamp: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks
Bandcamp [HD]: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks-hd-96k-24b
Wayside Music: http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Products/Smith-Wadada-Leo-Americas-National-Parks-2-x-CDs__Rune-spc-430-431.aspx
"Smith uses his magisterial instrumental voice, his inspirational leadership and his command of classical, jazz and blues forms to remind us of what has gone down and what's still happening."
– DownBeat’s 80 Coolest Things in Jazz Today
"A trumpeter and composer of penetrating insight."
– Nate Chinen, The New York Times
Wadada Leo Smith – trumpet, director of the ensemble
Anthony Davis – piano
Ashley Walters – cello
John Lindberg – bass
Pheeroan akLaff – drums
With America’s National Parks, visionary composer and Wadada Leo Smith offers his latest epic collection, a suite inspired by the scenic splendor, historic legacy, and political controversies of the country’s public landscapes. Writing for his newly expanded Golden Quintet, Smith crafts six extended works that explore, confront and question the preserved natural resources that are considered the most hallowed ground in the U.S. – and some that should be.
America’s National Parks was released shortly before Smith’s 75th birthday in December, arriving, coincidentally, in the midst of celebrations for the centennial of the National Park Service, which was created by an act of Congress on August 25, 1916. The spark for the project, however, came from two places: Smith’s own research into the National Park system, beginning with Yellowstone, the world’s first national park; and Ken Burns’ 12-hour documentary series The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.
trumpeter six-movement"The idea that Ken Burns explored in that documentary was that the grandeur of nature was like a religion or a cathedral," Smith says. "I reject that image because the natural phenomenon in creation, just like man and stars and light and water, is all one thing, just a diffusion of energy. My focus is on the spiritual and psychological dimensions of the idea of setting aside reserves for common property of the American citizens."
His 28-page score for America’s National Parks was penned for his Golden Quintet, a fresh reconfiguration of the quartet that’s been a keystone of his expression for the last 16 years. Pianist Anthony Davis, bassist John Lindberg and drummer Pheeroan akLaff are joined by cellist Ashley Walters, affording the composer and bandleader new melodic and coloristic possibilities. "The cello as a lead voice with the trumpet is magnificent," Smith says, "but when you look at the possibilities for melodic formation with the trumpet, the cello, the piano and the bass, that’s paradise for a composer and for a performer."
While these preserved landscapes offer the inspiration of powerful natural beauty, Smith’s always open-minded view of the world leads him to find that same inspiration wherever he is. "Every concrete house is from nature," he says. "Every plastic airplane that flies 300 people across the ocean comes out of nature. Every air conditioner conditions a natural piece of air. I think that the human being is constantly enfolded in organic nature and constructed nature, so I’m constantly inspired, inside the house or outside the house."
https://wn.com/Wadada_Leo_Smith_New_Orleans_The_National_Culture_Park_USA_1718_Excerpt
Wadada Leo Smith - "New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718" [Excerpt] from 'America's National Parks' (out now on Cuneiform Records)
Purchase now @
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2ew3J6M
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/americas-national-parks/id1160482622
Bandcamp: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks
Bandcamp [HD]: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks-hd-96k-24b
Wayside Music: http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Products/Smith-Wadada-Leo-Americas-National-Parks-2-x-CDs__Rune-spc-430-431.aspx
"Smith uses his magisterial instrumental voice, his inspirational leadership and his command of classical, jazz and blues forms to remind us of what has gone down and what's still happening."
– DownBeat’s 80 Coolest Things in Jazz Today
"A trumpeter and composer of penetrating insight."
– Nate Chinen, The New York Times
Wadada Leo Smith – trumpet, director of the ensemble
Anthony Davis – piano
Ashley Walters – cello
John Lindberg – bass
Pheeroan akLaff – drums
With America’s National Parks, visionary composer and Wadada Leo Smith offers his latest epic collection, a suite inspired by the scenic splendor, historic legacy, and political controversies of the country’s public landscapes. Writing for his newly expanded Golden Quintet, Smith crafts six extended works that explore, confront and question the preserved natural resources that are considered the most hallowed ground in the U.S. – and some that should be.
America’s National Parks was released shortly before Smith’s 75th birthday in December, arriving, coincidentally, in the midst of celebrations for the centennial of the National Park Service, which was created by an act of Congress on August 25, 1916. The spark for the project, however, came from two places: Smith’s own research into the National Park system, beginning with Yellowstone, the world’s first national park; and Ken Burns’ 12-hour documentary series The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.
trumpeter six-movement"The idea that Ken Burns explored in that documentary was that the grandeur of nature was like a religion or a cathedral," Smith says. "I reject that image because the natural phenomenon in creation, just like man and stars and light and water, is all one thing, just a diffusion of energy. My focus is on the spiritual and psychological dimensions of the idea of setting aside reserves for common property of the American citizens."
His 28-page score for America’s National Parks was penned for his Golden Quintet, a fresh reconfiguration of the quartet that’s been a keystone of his expression for the last 16 years. Pianist Anthony Davis, bassist John Lindberg and drummer Pheeroan akLaff are joined by cellist Ashley Walters, affording the composer and bandleader new melodic and coloristic possibilities. "The cello as a lead voice with the trumpet is magnificent," Smith says, "but when you look at the possibilities for melodic formation with the trumpet, the cello, the piano and the bass, that’s paradise for a composer and for a performer."
While these preserved landscapes offer the inspiration of powerful natural beauty, Smith’s always open-minded view of the world leads him to find that same inspiration wherever he is. "Every concrete house is from nature," he says. "Every plastic airplane that flies 300 people across the ocean comes out of nature. Every air conditioner conditions a natural piece of air. I think that the human being is constantly enfolded in organic nature and constructed nature, so I’m constantly inspired, inside the house or outside the house."
- published: 16 Sep 2016
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Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet
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- Duration: 56:49
- Updated: 07 Jan 2016
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Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith is a boldly original figure in American jazz and one of the great trumpet play...
Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith is a boldly original figure in American jazz and one of the great trumpet players of our time. Smith’s classic Golden Quartet line-up features legendary improvisers Anthony Davis, John Lindberg, and Pheeroan akLaff, and AllMusic calls it “jazz that is so fresh and well executed as to define and remind what’s great about listening to the music.”
https://wn.com/Wadada_Leo_Smith’S_Golden_Quartet
Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith is a boldly original figure in American jazz and one of the great trumpet players of our time. Smith’s classic Golden Quartet line-up features legendary improvisers Anthony Davis, John Lindberg, and Pheeroan akLaff, and AllMusic calls it “jazz that is so fresh and well executed as to define and remind what’s great about listening to the music.”
- published: 07 Jan 2016
- views: 3918
Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith – A cosmic rhythm with each stroke (Album EPK)
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- Duration: 5:33
- Updated: 10 Feb 2016
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A cosmic rhythm with each stroke
Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Vijay Iyer: piano, Fender Rhodes piano, electronics
Released in March 2016 – Available on CD / Down...
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke
Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Vijay Iyer: piano, Fender Rhodes piano, electronics
Released in March 2016 – Available on CD / Download
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke features pianist Viay Iyer and the musician he has described as his “hero, friend and teacher”, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith’s Golden Quartet, but the present album is the first documentation of their duo work, produced by Manfred Eicher at New York’s Avatar Studios in October 2015. The centre-piece of the album is the spellbinding title suite, dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990), the innovative Indian artist whose improvisatory imagery evokes abstracted rhythms. Trumpet and piano interact here with creative sensitivity to tone, texture and space. Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith will be premiering A cosmic rhythm with each stroke at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in March 2016 in the context of a major exhibition dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi’s art and writings. The “suite for Nasreen” is framed on the album by Iyer’s composition “Passage” and Smith’s concluding piece “Marian Anderson”, inspired by the great US contralto.
ECM 2486
https://www.ecmrecords.com
https://wn.com/Vijay_Iyer_Wadada_Leo_Smith_–_A_Cosmic_Rhythm_With_Each_Stroke_(Album_Epk)
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke
Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Vijay Iyer: piano, Fender Rhodes piano, electronics
Released in March 2016 – Available on CD / Download
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke features pianist Viay Iyer and the musician he has described as his “hero, friend and teacher”, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith’s Golden Quartet, but the present album is the first documentation of their duo work, produced by Manfred Eicher at New York’s Avatar Studios in October 2015. The centre-piece of the album is the spellbinding title suite, dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990), the innovative Indian artist whose improvisatory imagery evokes abstracted rhythms. Trumpet and piano interact here with creative sensitivity to tone, texture and space. Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith will be premiering A cosmic rhythm with each stroke at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in March 2016 in the context of a major exhibition dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi’s art and writings. The “suite for Nasreen” is framed on the album by Iyer’s composition “Passage” and Smith’s concluding piece “Marian Anderson”, inspired by the great US contralto.
ECM 2486
https://www.ecmrecords.com
- published: 10 Feb 2016
- views: 37381
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith – Passages
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- Duration: 6:16
- Updated: 14 Mar 2016
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Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith
a cosmic rhythm with each stroke
Vijay Iyer: Piano, Fender Rhodes, Electronics
Wadada Leo Smith: Trumpet
"a cosmic rhythm with e...
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith
a cosmic rhythm with each stroke
Vijay Iyer: Piano, Fender Rhodes, Electronics
Wadada Leo Smith: Trumpet
"a cosmic rhythm with each stroke" features pianist Viay Iyer and the musician he has described as his “hero, friend and teacher”, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith’s Golden Quartet, but the present album is the first documentation of their duo work, produced by Manfred Eicher at New York’s Avatar Studios in October 2015. The centre-piece of the album is the spellbinding title suite, dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990), the innovative Indian artist whose improvisatory imagery evokes abstracted rhythms. Trumpet and piano interact here with creative sensitivity to tone, texture and space. Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith will be premiering a cosmic rhythm with each stroke at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in March 2016 in the context of a major exhibition dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi’s art and writings. The “suite for Nasreen” is framed on the album by Iyer’s composition “Passage” and Smith’s concluding piece “Marian Anderson”, inspired by the great US contralto.
ECM 2486
https://www.ecmrecords.com
https://wn.com/Vijay_Iyer_Wadada_Leo_Smith_–_Passages
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith
a cosmic rhythm with each stroke
Vijay Iyer: Piano, Fender Rhodes, Electronics
Wadada Leo Smith: Trumpet
"a cosmic rhythm with each stroke" features pianist Viay Iyer and the musician he has described as his “hero, friend and teacher”, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith’s Golden Quartet, but the present album is the first documentation of their duo work, produced by Manfred Eicher at New York’s Avatar Studios in October 2015. The centre-piece of the album is the spellbinding title suite, dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990), the innovative Indian artist whose improvisatory imagery evokes abstracted rhythms. Trumpet and piano interact here with creative sensitivity to tone, texture and space. Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith will be premiering a cosmic rhythm with each stroke at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in March 2016 in the context of a major exhibition dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi’s art and writings. The “suite for Nasreen” is framed on the album by Iyer’s composition “Passage” and Smith’s concluding piece “Marian Anderson”, inspired by the great US contralto.
ECM 2486
https://www.ecmrecords.com
- published: 14 Mar 2016
- views: 65175
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - at The Stone - Jan 25 2015
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- Duration: 34:55
- Updated: 18 Dec 2015
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Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Vijay Iyer - piano
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Vijay Iyer - piano
https://wn.com/Vijay_Iyer_Wadada_Leo_Smith_At_The_Stone_Jan_25_2015
Wadada Leo Smith - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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- Duration: 8:07
- Updated: 15 Mar 2013
- views: 20401
"Martin Luther King, Jr." by Wadada Leo Smith from the album 'Ten Freedom Summers' (Cuneiform Records).
Purchase now at:
Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Fre...
"Martin Luther King, Jr." by Wadada Leo Smith from the album 'Ten Freedom Summers' (Cuneiform Records).
Purchase now at:
Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Freedom-Sum...
iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ten...
Bandcamp - http://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/...
Wayside - http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pro...
Album Personnel:
Wadada Leo Smith - composer, trumpet
Anthony Davis - piano
John Lindberg - bass
Pheeroan akLaff - drums
Susie Ibarra - drums
Trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith’s Ten Freedom Summers is the work of a lifetime by one of jazz’s true visionaries, a kaleidoscopic, spiritually charged opus inspired by the struggle for African-American freedom and equality before the law. Triumphant and mournful, visceral and philosophical, searching, scathing and relentlessly humane, Smith’s music embraces the turbulent era’s milestones while celebrating the civil rights movement’s heroes and martyrs. This four-disc set documents a stunning, career-capping accomplishment by a jazz giant in the midst of an astonishing creative surge.
An orchestral collaboration with the acclaimed eight-piece ensemble Southwest Chamber Music (harp, clarinet, 2 violins, cello, flute, viola, bass, percussion) conducted by Grammy Award-winner Jeff von der Schmidt, Ten Freedom Summers is built upon Smith’s celebrated Golden Quartet featuring pianist Anthony Davis, bassist John Lindberg, drummer Susie Ibarra and/or drummer Pheeroan akLaaf (who often expands the ensemble to a quintet). As a child of the Deep South who was raised in the red-hot crucible of the civil rights movement, Smith traces the project’s origins back to 1977, when he wrote “Medgar Evers,” an expansive evocation of the NAACP activist gunned down in Mississippi 14 years earlier.
Working in fits and starts, Smith completed the 19-piece project 34 years later in October of 2011 with a portentous, elegiac piece for Southwest Chamber Music. In designing the huge, multi-movement work, he focused on the transformative decade framed by the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
"I was born in 1941 and grew up in segregated Mississippi and experienced the conditions which made it imperative for an activist movement for equality,” says Smith says, who marked his 70th birthday with a presentation of this, perhaps his most ambitious undertaking. “I saw that stuff happening. Those are the moments that triggered this. It was in that same environment that I had my first dreams of becoming a composer and performer.”
After decades of being revered by his peers and colleagues, Smith is attaining his rightful place at the forefront of American music. Ten Freedom Summers is an important work that combines unique, fully scored rigorous passages and great improvisational skills into one huge and cohesive work. It is a thrilling, emotionally charged and satisfying work from a master.
"Smith has called “Ten Freedom Summers” his “defining life’s work” and it, likewise, has been hailed everywhere from Downbeat magazine to the British Broadcasting Corporation as his masterpiece."
-Will Stewart, Ann Arbor News
"This is reflective of the times that Smith grew up in. As a 70-year-old man, he has both seen and felt the civil rights struggles that have helped to shape the course of American history in the 20th century, and rather than use these as a provocation for something purely rhetorical, he has utilized them in his art, and thus overtly yet subtly indicated their profundity."
-Nic Jones, AllAboutJazz
"Smith’s own playing is as razor-focused and regal as ever, moving from stentorian salvos to intricate muted passages and covering the full brass spectrum in-between with persistent stamina and creativity. His role is one of equal-footing ensemble participant rather than that of dominant alpha-male leader, a Zen-like temperament that carries over into the natural ebb and flow of the compositions."
-Derek Taylor, DustedMagazine
For more information:
http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/
http://twitter.com/cuneiformrecord
http://www.facebook.com/cuneiformrecords
https://www.instagram.com/cuneiformre...
https://wn.com/Wadada_Leo_Smith_Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.
"Martin Luther King, Jr." by Wadada Leo Smith from the album 'Ten Freedom Summers' (Cuneiform Records).
Purchase now at:
Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Freedom-Sum...
iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ten...
Bandcamp - http://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/...
Wayside - http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pro...
Album Personnel:
Wadada Leo Smith - composer, trumpet
Anthony Davis - piano
John Lindberg - bass
Pheeroan akLaff - drums
Susie Ibarra - drums
Trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith’s Ten Freedom Summers is the work of a lifetime by one of jazz’s true visionaries, a kaleidoscopic, spiritually charged opus inspired by the struggle for African-American freedom and equality before the law. Triumphant and mournful, visceral and philosophical, searching, scathing and relentlessly humane, Smith’s music embraces the turbulent era’s milestones while celebrating the civil rights movement’s heroes and martyrs. This four-disc set documents a stunning, career-capping accomplishment by a jazz giant in the midst of an astonishing creative surge.
An orchestral collaboration with the acclaimed eight-piece ensemble Southwest Chamber Music (harp, clarinet, 2 violins, cello, flute, viola, bass, percussion) conducted by Grammy Award-winner Jeff von der Schmidt, Ten Freedom Summers is built upon Smith’s celebrated Golden Quartet featuring pianist Anthony Davis, bassist John Lindberg, drummer Susie Ibarra and/or drummer Pheeroan akLaaf (who often expands the ensemble to a quintet). As a child of the Deep South who was raised in the red-hot crucible of the civil rights movement, Smith traces the project’s origins back to 1977, when he wrote “Medgar Evers,” an expansive evocation of the NAACP activist gunned down in Mississippi 14 years earlier.
Working in fits and starts, Smith completed the 19-piece project 34 years later in October of 2011 with a portentous, elegiac piece for Southwest Chamber Music. In designing the huge, multi-movement work, he focused on the transformative decade framed by the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
"I was born in 1941 and grew up in segregated Mississippi and experienced the conditions which made it imperative for an activist movement for equality,” says Smith says, who marked his 70th birthday with a presentation of this, perhaps his most ambitious undertaking. “I saw that stuff happening. Those are the moments that triggered this. It was in that same environment that I had my first dreams of becoming a composer and performer.”
After decades of being revered by his peers and colleagues, Smith is attaining his rightful place at the forefront of American music. Ten Freedom Summers is an important work that combines unique, fully scored rigorous passages and great improvisational skills into one huge and cohesive work. It is a thrilling, emotionally charged and satisfying work from a master.
"Smith has called “Ten Freedom Summers” his “defining life’s work” and it, likewise, has been hailed everywhere from Downbeat magazine to the British Broadcasting Corporation as his masterpiece."
-Will Stewart, Ann Arbor News
"This is reflective of the times that Smith grew up in. As a 70-year-old man, he has both seen and felt the civil rights struggles that have helped to shape the course of American history in the 20th century, and rather than use these as a provocation for something purely rhetorical, he has utilized them in his art, and thus overtly yet subtly indicated their profundity."
-Nic Jones, AllAboutJazz
"Smith’s own playing is as razor-focused and regal as ever, moving from stentorian salvos to intricate muted passages and covering the full brass spectrum in-between with persistent stamina and creativity. His role is one of equal-footing ensemble participant rather than that of dominant alpha-male leader, a Zen-like temperament that carries over into the natural ebb and flow of the compositions."
-Derek Taylor, DustedMagazine
For more information:
http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/
http://twitter.com/cuneiformrecord
http://www.facebook.com/cuneiformrecords
https://www.instagram.com/cuneiformre...
- published: 15 Mar 2013
- views: 20401
Helen Petts' film of Wadada Leo Smith, Louis Moholo, Steve Noble 1.
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- Duration: 10:25
- Updated: 03 May 2010
- views: 6296
Filmed by Helen Petts at Freedom of the City festival, 2010, London. See also http://youtu.be/1QzBTnbcAtY
If you want to link this clip please contact me for pe...
Filmed by Helen Petts at Freedom of the City festival, 2010, London. See also http://youtu.be/1QzBTnbcAtY
If you want to link this clip please contact me for permission. www.helenpetts.com
https://wn.com/Helen_Petts'_Film_Of_Wadada_Leo_Smith,_Louis_Moholo,_Steve_Noble_1.
Filmed by Helen Petts at Freedom of the City festival, 2010, London. See also http://youtu.be/1QzBTnbcAtY
If you want to link this clip please contact me for permission. www.helenpetts.com
- published: 03 May 2010
- views: 6296
Wadada Leo Smith Vijay Iyer - A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
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- Duration: 1:09:34
- Updated: 15 Jan 2017
- views: 209
Due appassionati e appassionanti poeti e esploratori dei suoni e dell’improvvisazione: Vijay Iyer e Wadada Leo Smith spingono la musica improvvisata verso nuove...
Due appassionati e appassionanti poeti e esploratori dei suoni e dell’improvvisazione: Vijay Iyer e Wadada Leo Smith spingono la musica improvvisata verso nuove frontiere, varcate con la funambolica capacità creativa di chi è in possesso delle chiavi di accesso di arcani sistemi lessicali.
Musica che sa agire attraverso nuove concezioni del tempo e dello spazio, in un dialogo fitto e intenso che sa però trovare nuove libertà, nuova scioltezza, nuovi terreni d’incontro. Un duo che sa liberare la musica da lacci e lacciuoli per entrare nel campo della pura libertà poetica.
https://wn.com/Wadada_Leo_Smith_Vijay_Iyer_A_Cosmic_Rhythm_With_Each_Stroke
Due appassionati e appassionanti poeti e esploratori dei suoni e dell’improvvisazione: Vijay Iyer e Wadada Leo Smith spingono la musica improvvisata verso nuove frontiere, varcate con la funambolica capacità creativa di chi è in possesso delle chiavi di accesso di arcani sistemi lessicali.
Musica che sa agire attraverso nuove concezioni del tempo e dello spazio, in un dialogo fitto e intenso che sa però trovare nuove libertà, nuova scioltezza, nuovi terreni d’incontro. Un duo che sa liberare la musica da lacci e lacciuoli per entrare nel campo della pura libertà poetica.
- published: 15 Jan 2017
- views: 209
Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith - Moja - Nne'
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- Duration: 10:14
- Updated: 10 Mar 2013
- views: 7553
Tribute to Miles Davis. From the album "Yo Miles!" (Shanachie, 1998)
- published: 10 Mar 2013
- views: 7553
Wadada Leo Smith "Until the Fire"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 11:29
- Updated: 22 Apr 2015
- views: 1648
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Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet live at Jazzadlia in San Sebastián
Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet performs "Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 381 Days," live at the Heineken Jazzaldia Festival in San Sebastián, Spain. Recorded July 25th, 2014. Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Anthony Davis - piano John Lindberg - bass Pheeroan akLaff - drums Jesse Gilbert - visual projections http://wadadaleosmith.com/ http://jessegilbert.net/
published: 24 Sep 2014 -
Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet
Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith is a boldly original figure in American jazz and one of the great trumpet players of our time. Smith’s classic Golden Quartet line-up features legendary improvisers Anthony Davis, John Lindberg, and Pheeroan akLaff, and AllMusic calls it “jazz that is so fresh and well executed as to define and remind what’s great about listening to the music.”
published: 07 Jan 2016 -
Wadada Leo Smith - Live at The Stone
Celebratory: Ornette - Coltrane - Shannon Live at The Stone, New York City April 24, 2015 Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Brandon Ross - electric guitar Lamar Smith - electric guitar Bill Laswell - electric bass Pheeroan akLaff - drums
published: 25 Apr 2015 -
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - - Pittsburgh Jazz Live 06-25-16
Pittsburgh Jazz Live on a beautiful summer day on Penn Avenue. Wonderful weather, great performances and great food at Nine on Nine. #Pittsburgh #VernonRied #ChickCorea #Davinaandthevgabonds #davina #pittsburghjazzzlive http://pittsburghjazzlive.com/events/list/?tribe_paged=1&tribe;_event_display=past .. .. *PLEASE* This is amateur video. I do not monetize or profit in any way from it. I post it to promote the artist and the live music venues. If the artist or anyone appearing disapproves, PLEASE contact me via Youtube and I will make accommodations. Tim
published: 26 Jun 2016 -
Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith – A cosmic rhythm with each stroke (Album EPK)
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet Vijay Iyer: piano, Fender Rhodes piano, electronics Released in March 2016 – Available on CD / Download A cosmic rhythm with each stroke features pianist Viay Iyer and the musician he has described as his “hero, friend and teacher”, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith’s Golden Quartet, but the present album is the first documentation of their duo work, produced by Manfred Eicher at New York’s Avatar Studios in October 2015. The centre-piece of the album is the spellbinding title suite, dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990), the innovative Indian artist whose improvisatory imagery evokes abstracted rhythms. Trumpet and piano interact here with creative sensitivity to tone, ...
published: 10 Feb 2016 -
Wadada Leo Smith - New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718 [Excerpt]
Wadada Leo Smith - "New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718" [Excerpt] from 'America's National Parks' (out now on Cuneiform Records) Purchase now @ Amazon: http://amzn.to/2ew3J6M iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/americas-national-parks/id1160482622 Bandcamp: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks Bandcamp [HD]: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks-hd-96k-24b Wayside Music: http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Products/Smith-Wadada-Leo-Americas-National-Parks-2-x-CDs__Rune-spc-430-431.aspx "Smith uses his magisterial instrumental voice, his inspirational leadership and his command of classical, jazz and blues forms to remind us of what has gone down and what's still happening." – DownBeat’s 80 Coolest Things in Jaz...
published: 16 Sep 2016 -
Wadada Leo Smith at Improv 21, San Francisco - Part 1: Performance
Wadada Leo Smith at Improv 21 - Part 1 of 4 "Performance" San Francisco Library of the Performing Arts - 3.8.07 Composer / trumpet player Wadada Leo Smith performs and speaks about his music. http://wadadaleosmith.com © Kosmic Music LLC 2009
published: 31 Jul 2009 -
Wadada Leo Smith and Jack DeJohnette - Ed Blackwell, The Blue Mountain Sun Drummer
New Project 6
published: 23 May 2012 -
Marion Brown & Wadada Leo Smith: Live 1970 Germany with Manfred Eicher (ECM)
December 1970, Club Laboratorium, Webergasse 22, Esslingen, Germany Radio broadcast, Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR) Part II Marion Brown (as, etc.) Wadada Leo Smith (tp, etc.) Thomas Stoewsand (cello, flutes) Manfred Eicher (b) Fred Braceful (perc) http://discog.piezoelektric.org/marionbrown/r/marionbrownliveinesslingen.html
published: 27 Jun 2015 -
Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet
Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet - Eclipse (2005, La Huit) Wadada Leo Smith : trumpet Vijay Iyer : piano John Lindberg : bass Ronald Shannon Jackson : drums Recorded live at Festival Banlieues Bleues in 2004.
published: 25 Sep 2007
Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet live at Jazzadlia in San Sebastián
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 15:20
- Updated: 24 Sep 2014
- views: 4275
Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet performs "Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 381 Days," live at the Heineken Jazzaldia Festival in San Sebastián, Spai...
Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet performs "Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 381 Days," live at the Heineken Jazzaldia Festival in San Sebastián, Spain. Recorded July 25th, 2014.
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Anthony Davis - piano
John Lindberg - bass
Pheeroan akLaff - drums
Jesse Gilbert - visual projections
http://wadadaleosmith.com/
http://jessegilbert.net/
https://wn.com/Wadada_Leo_Smith's_Golden_Quartet_Live_At_Jazzadlia_In_San_Sebastián
Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet performs "Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 381 Days," live at the Heineken Jazzaldia Festival in San Sebastián, Spain. Recorded July 25th, 2014.
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Anthony Davis - piano
John Lindberg - bass
Pheeroan akLaff - drums
Jesse Gilbert - visual projections
http://wadadaleosmith.com/
http://jessegilbert.net/
- published: 24 Sep 2014
- views: 4275
Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 56:49
- Updated: 07 Jan 2016
- views: 3918
Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith is a boldly original figure in American jazz and one of the great trumpet play...
Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith is a boldly original figure in American jazz and one of the great trumpet players of our time. Smith’s classic Golden Quartet line-up features legendary improvisers Anthony Davis, John Lindberg, and Pheeroan akLaff, and AllMusic calls it “jazz that is so fresh and well executed as to define and remind what’s great about listening to the music.”
https://wn.com/Wadada_Leo_Smith’S_Golden_Quartet
Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith is a boldly original figure in American jazz and one of the great trumpet players of our time. Smith’s classic Golden Quartet line-up features legendary improvisers Anthony Davis, John Lindberg, and Pheeroan akLaff, and AllMusic calls it “jazz that is so fresh and well executed as to define and remind what’s great about listening to the music.”
- published: 07 Jan 2016
- views: 3918
Wadada Leo Smith - Live at The Stone
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:29
- Updated: 25 Apr 2015
- views: 2009
Celebratory: Ornette - Coltrane - Shannon
Live at The Stone, New York City
April 24, 2015
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Brandon Ross - electric guitar
Lamar Smit...
Celebratory: Ornette - Coltrane - Shannon
Live at The Stone, New York City
April 24, 2015
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Brandon Ross - electric guitar
Lamar Smith - electric guitar
Bill Laswell - electric bass
Pheeroan akLaff - drums
https://wn.com/Wadada_Leo_Smith_Live_At_The_Stone
Celebratory: Ornette - Coltrane - Shannon
Live at The Stone, New York City
April 24, 2015
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Brandon Ross - electric guitar
Lamar Smith - electric guitar
Bill Laswell - electric bass
Pheeroan akLaff - drums
- published: 25 Apr 2015
- views: 2009
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - - Pittsburgh Jazz Live 06-25-16
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:14
- Updated: 26 Jun 2016
- views: 226
Pittsburgh Jazz Live on a beautiful summer day on Penn Avenue. Wonderful weather, great performances and great food at Nine on Nine. #Pittsburgh #VernonRied #...
Pittsburgh Jazz Live on a beautiful summer day on Penn Avenue. Wonderful weather, great performances and great food at Nine on Nine. #Pittsburgh #VernonRied #ChickCorea #Davinaandthevgabonds #davina #pittsburghjazzzlive http://pittsburghjazzlive.com/events/list/?tribe_paged=1&tribe;_event_display=past .. .. *PLEASE* This is amateur video. I do not monetize or profit in any way from it. I post it to promote the artist and the live music venues. If the artist or anyone appearing disapproves, PLEASE contact me via Youtube and I will make accommodations. Tim
https://wn.com/Vijay_Iyer_Wadada_Leo_Smith_Pittsburgh_Jazz_Live_06_25_16
Pittsburgh Jazz Live on a beautiful summer day on Penn Avenue. Wonderful weather, great performances and great food at Nine on Nine. #Pittsburgh #VernonRied #ChickCorea #Davinaandthevgabonds #davina #pittsburghjazzzlive http://pittsburghjazzlive.com/events/list/?tribe_paged=1&tribe;_event_display=past .. .. *PLEASE* This is amateur video. I do not monetize or profit in any way from it. I post it to promote the artist and the live music venues. If the artist or anyone appearing disapproves, PLEASE contact me via Youtube and I will make accommodations. Tim
- published: 26 Jun 2016
- views: 226
Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith – A cosmic rhythm with each stroke (Album EPK)
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- Duration: 5:33
- Updated: 10 Feb 2016
- views: 37381
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke
Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Vijay Iyer: piano, Fender Rhodes piano, electronics
Released in March 2016 – Available on CD / Down...
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke
Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Vijay Iyer: piano, Fender Rhodes piano, electronics
Released in March 2016 – Available on CD / Download
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke features pianist Viay Iyer and the musician he has described as his “hero, friend and teacher”, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith’s Golden Quartet, but the present album is the first documentation of their duo work, produced by Manfred Eicher at New York’s Avatar Studios in October 2015. The centre-piece of the album is the spellbinding title suite, dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990), the innovative Indian artist whose improvisatory imagery evokes abstracted rhythms. Trumpet and piano interact here with creative sensitivity to tone, texture and space. Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith will be premiering A cosmic rhythm with each stroke at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in March 2016 in the context of a major exhibition dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi’s art and writings. The “suite for Nasreen” is framed on the album by Iyer’s composition “Passage” and Smith’s concluding piece “Marian Anderson”, inspired by the great US contralto.
ECM 2486
https://www.ecmrecords.com
https://wn.com/Vijay_Iyer_Wadada_Leo_Smith_–_A_Cosmic_Rhythm_With_Each_Stroke_(Album_Epk)
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke
Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Vijay Iyer: piano, Fender Rhodes piano, electronics
Released in March 2016 – Available on CD / Download
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke features pianist Viay Iyer and the musician he has described as his “hero, friend and teacher”, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith’s Golden Quartet, but the present album is the first documentation of their duo work, produced by Manfred Eicher at New York’s Avatar Studios in October 2015. The centre-piece of the album is the spellbinding title suite, dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990), the innovative Indian artist whose improvisatory imagery evokes abstracted rhythms. Trumpet and piano interact here with creative sensitivity to tone, texture and space. Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith will be premiering A cosmic rhythm with each stroke at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in March 2016 in the context of a major exhibition dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi’s art and writings. The “suite for Nasreen” is framed on the album by Iyer’s composition “Passage” and Smith’s concluding piece “Marian Anderson”, inspired by the great US contralto.
ECM 2486
https://www.ecmrecords.com
- published: 10 Feb 2016
- views: 37381
Wadada Leo Smith - New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718 [Excerpt]
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- Duration: 12:13
- Updated: 16 Sep 2016
- views: 1722
Wadada Leo Smith - "New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718" [Excerpt] from 'America's National Parks' (out now on Cuneiform Records)
Purchase now @
Am...
Wadada Leo Smith - "New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718" [Excerpt] from 'America's National Parks' (out now on Cuneiform Records)
Purchase now @
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2ew3J6M
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/americas-national-parks/id1160482622
Bandcamp: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks
Bandcamp [HD]: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks-hd-96k-24b
Wayside Music: http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Products/Smith-Wadada-Leo-Americas-National-Parks-2-x-CDs__Rune-spc-430-431.aspx
"Smith uses his magisterial instrumental voice, his inspirational leadership and his command of classical, jazz and blues forms to remind us of what has gone down and what's still happening."
– DownBeat’s 80 Coolest Things in Jazz Today
"A trumpeter and composer of penetrating insight."
– Nate Chinen, The New York Times
Wadada Leo Smith – trumpet, director of the ensemble
Anthony Davis – piano
Ashley Walters – cello
John Lindberg – bass
Pheeroan akLaff – drums
With America’s National Parks, visionary composer and Wadada Leo Smith offers his latest epic collection, a suite inspired by the scenic splendor, historic legacy, and political controversies of the country’s public landscapes. Writing for his newly expanded Golden Quintet, Smith crafts six extended works that explore, confront and question the preserved natural resources that are considered the most hallowed ground in the U.S. – and some that should be.
America’s National Parks was released shortly before Smith’s 75th birthday in December, arriving, coincidentally, in the midst of celebrations for the centennial of the National Park Service, which was created by an act of Congress on August 25, 1916. The spark for the project, however, came from two places: Smith’s own research into the National Park system, beginning with Yellowstone, the world’s first national park; and Ken Burns’ 12-hour documentary series The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.
trumpeter six-movement"The idea that Ken Burns explored in that documentary was that the grandeur of nature was like a religion or a cathedral," Smith says. "I reject that image because the natural phenomenon in creation, just like man and stars and light and water, is all one thing, just a diffusion of energy. My focus is on the spiritual and psychological dimensions of the idea of setting aside reserves for common property of the American citizens."
His 28-page score for America’s National Parks was penned for his Golden Quintet, a fresh reconfiguration of the quartet that’s been a keystone of his expression for the last 16 years. Pianist Anthony Davis, bassist John Lindberg and drummer Pheeroan akLaff are joined by cellist Ashley Walters, affording the composer and bandleader new melodic and coloristic possibilities. "The cello as a lead voice with the trumpet is magnificent," Smith says, "but when you look at the possibilities for melodic formation with the trumpet, the cello, the piano and the bass, that’s paradise for a composer and for a performer."
While these preserved landscapes offer the inspiration of powerful natural beauty, Smith’s always open-minded view of the world leads him to find that same inspiration wherever he is. "Every concrete house is from nature," he says. "Every plastic airplane that flies 300 people across the ocean comes out of nature. Every air conditioner conditions a natural piece of air. I think that the human being is constantly enfolded in organic nature and constructed nature, so I’m constantly inspired, inside the house or outside the house."
https://wn.com/Wadada_Leo_Smith_New_Orleans_The_National_Culture_Park_USA_1718_Excerpt
Wadada Leo Smith - "New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718" [Excerpt] from 'America's National Parks' (out now on Cuneiform Records)
Purchase now @
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2ew3J6M
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/americas-national-parks/id1160482622
Bandcamp: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks
Bandcamp [HD]: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks-hd-96k-24b
Wayside Music: http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Products/Smith-Wadada-Leo-Americas-National-Parks-2-x-CDs__Rune-spc-430-431.aspx
"Smith uses his magisterial instrumental voice, his inspirational leadership and his command of classical, jazz and blues forms to remind us of what has gone down and what's still happening."
– DownBeat’s 80 Coolest Things in Jazz Today
"A trumpeter and composer of penetrating insight."
– Nate Chinen, The New York Times
Wadada Leo Smith – trumpet, director of the ensemble
Anthony Davis – piano
Ashley Walters – cello
John Lindberg – bass
Pheeroan akLaff – drums
With America’s National Parks, visionary composer and Wadada Leo Smith offers his latest epic collection, a suite inspired by the scenic splendor, historic legacy, and political controversies of the country’s public landscapes. Writing for his newly expanded Golden Quintet, Smith crafts six extended works that explore, confront and question the preserved natural resources that are considered the most hallowed ground in the U.S. – and some that should be.
America’s National Parks was released shortly before Smith’s 75th birthday in December, arriving, coincidentally, in the midst of celebrations for the centennial of the National Park Service, which was created by an act of Congress on August 25, 1916. The spark for the project, however, came from two places: Smith’s own research into the National Park system, beginning with Yellowstone, the world’s first national park; and Ken Burns’ 12-hour documentary series The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.
trumpeter six-movement"The idea that Ken Burns explored in that documentary was that the grandeur of nature was like a religion or a cathedral," Smith says. "I reject that image because the natural phenomenon in creation, just like man and stars and light and water, is all one thing, just a diffusion of energy. My focus is on the spiritual and psychological dimensions of the idea of setting aside reserves for common property of the American citizens."
His 28-page score for America’s National Parks was penned for his Golden Quintet, a fresh reconfiguration of the quartet that’s been a keystone of his expression for the last 16 years. Pianist Anthony Davis, bassist John Lindberg and drummer Pheeroan akLaff are joined by cellist Ashley Walters, affording the composer and bandleader new melodic and coloristic possibilities. "The cello as a lead voice with the trumpet is magnificent," Smith says, "but when you look at the possibilities for melodic formation with the trumpet, the cello, the piano and the bass, that’s paradise for a composer and for a performer."
While these preserved landscapes offer the inspiration of powerful natural beauty, Smith’s always open-minded view of the world leads him to find that same inspiration wherever he is. "Every concrete house is from nature," he says. "Every plastic airplane that flies 300 people across the ocean comes out of nature. Every air conditioner conditions a natural piece of air. I think that the human being is constantly enfolded in organic nature and constructed nature, so I’m constantly inspired, inside the house or outside the house."
- published: 16 Sep 2016
- views: 1722
Wadada Leo Smith at Improv 21, San Francisco - Part 1: Performance
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:42
- Updated: 31 Jul 2009
- views: 9965
Wadada Leo Smith at Improv 21 - Part 1 of 4 "Performance"
San Francisco Library of the Performing Arts - 3.8.07
Composer / trumpet player Wadada Leo Smith ...
Wadada Leo Smith at Improv 21 - Part 1 of 4 "Performance"
San Francisco Library of the Performing Arts - 3.8.07
Composer / trumpet player Wadada Leo Smith performs and speaks about his music.
http://wadadaleosmith.com © Kosmic Music LLC 2009
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Wadada Leo Smith at Improv 21 - Part 1 of 4 "Performance"
San Francisco Library of the Performing Arts - 3.8.07
Composer / trumpet player Wadada Leo Smith performs and speaks about his music.
http://wadadaleosmith.com © Kosmic Music LLC 2009
- published: 31 Jul 2009
- views: 9965
Wadada Leo Smith and Jack DeJohnette - Ed Blackwell, The Blue Mountain Sun Drummer
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:17
- Updated: 23 May 2012
- views: 6477
New Project 6
New Project 6
https://wn.com/Wadada_Leo_Smith_And_Jack_Dejohnette_Ed_Blackwell,_The_Blue_Mountain_Sun_Drummer
Marion Brown & Wadada Leo Smith: Live 1970 Germany with Manfred Eicher (ECM)
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- Duration: 17:36
- Updated: 27 Jun 2015
- views: 1713
December 1970, Club Laboratorium, Webergasse 22, Esslingen, Germany
Radio broadcast, Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR)
Part II
Marion Brown (as, etc.)
Wadada Leo Sm...
December 1970, Club Laboratorium, Webergasse 22, Esslingen, Germany
Radio broadcast, Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR)
Part II
Marion Brown (as, etc.)
Wadada Leo Smith (tp, etc.)
Thomas Stoewsand (cello, flutes)
Manfred Eicher (b)
Fred Braceful (perc)
http://discog.piezoelektric.org/marionbrown/r/marionbrownliveinesslingen.html
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December 1970, Club Laboratorium, Webergasse 22, Esslingen, Germany
Radio broadcast, Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR)
Part II
Marion Brown (as, etc.)
Wadada Leo Smith (tp, etc.)
Thomas Stoewsand (cello, flutes)
Manfred Eicher (b)
Fred Braceful (perc)
http://discog.piezoelektric.org/marionbrown/r/marionbrownliveinesslingen.html
- published: 27 Jun 2015
- views: 1713
Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:13
- Updated: 25 Sep 2007
- views: 47894
Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet - Eclipse (2005, La Huit)
Wadada Leo Smith : trumpet
Vijay Iyer : piano
John Lindberg : bass
Ronald Shannon Jackson : drum...
Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet - Eclipse (2005, La Huit)
Wadada Leo Smith : trumpet
Vijay Iyer : piano
John Lindberg : bass
Ronald Shannon Jackson : drums
Recorded live at Festival Banlieues Bleues in 2004.
https://wn.com/Wadada_Leo_Smith_Golden_Quartet
Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet - Eclipse (2005, La Huit)
Wadada Leo Smith : trumpet
Vijay Iyer : piano
John Lindberg : bass
Ronald Shannon Jackson : drums
Recorded live at Festival Banlieues Bleues in 2004.
- published: 25 Sep 2007
- views: 47894
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Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet
Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith is a boldly original figure in American jazz and one of the great trumpet players of our time. Smith’s classic Golden Quartet line-up features legendary improvisers Anthony Davis, John Lindberg, and Pheeroan akLaff, and AllMusic calls it “jazz that is so fresh and well executed as to define and remind what’s great about listening to the music.”
published: 07 Jan 2016 -
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - at The Stone - Jan 25 2015
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano
published: 18 Dec 2015 -
Wadada Leo Smith Vijay Iyer - A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
Due appassionati e appassionanti poeti e esploratori dei suoni e dell’improvvisazione: Vijay Iyer e Wadada Leo Smith spingono la musica improvvisata verso nuove frontiere, varcate con la funambolica capacità creativa di chi è in possesso delle chiavi di accesso di arcani sistemi lessicali. Musica che sa agire attraverso nuove concezioni del tempo e dello spazio, in un dialogo fitto e intenso che sa però trovare nuove libertà, nuova scioltezza, nuovi terreni d’incontro. Un duo che sa liberare la musica da lacci e lacciuoli per entrare nel campo della pura libertà poetica.
published: 15 Jan 2017 -
Leo Smith - Mass on the World
Leo Smith Trio, Leo Smith - trumpet/flugelhorn/flute/bells/rattles Dwight Andrews - saxophones/clarinet/alto flute/piccolo/gongs Bobby Naughton vibraphone/bells
published: 03 Jun 2014 -
Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet - September 11th, 2001: A Memorial
Café Oto, London, 23 November 2013. A part of the Ten Freedom Summers concerts at Café Oto, London 21, 22 & 23 November 2013 Golden Quartet: Wadada Leo Smith / trumpet, flugelhorn Anthony Davis / piano Anthony Brown / drums John Lindberg / bass Jesse Gilbert / artist http://www.allaboutjazz.com/wadada-leo-smiths-ten-freedom-summers-at-london-jazz-festival-2013-wadada-leo-smith-by-john-sharpe.php?&pg;=1
published: 21 Dec 2013 -
Wadada Leo Smith, John Edwards, Mark Sanders @ Skaņu Mežs 2014
video by www.komuna7.lv www.skanumezs.lv Skaņu Mežs is a music festival which has as its goal to widen the audience’s horizons, and to offer alternatives to dominant views on culture by introducing them to music, cinema and art
published: 19 Dec 2014 -
Humanismo Justa / Trutmonda Muziko (Human Rights / World Music) - Wadada Leo Smith
"Human Rights" (vinyl, 1986)
published: 04 May 2013 -
WADADA LEO SMITH & LOUIS MOHOLO MOHOLO
Это видео создано с помощью видеоредактора YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/editor) оригинал видео https://www.youtube.com/dzgast
published: 25 Feb 2014 -
Wadada Leo Smith & Hamid Drake - Empty Bottle Chicago 2001
Wadada Leo Smith & Hamid Drake - Empty Bottle Chicago 2001 Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet Hamid Drake: drums -Video Upload powered by https://www.TunesToTube.com
published: 14 May 2017 -
Wadada Leo Smith with the New World Music Ensemble, Feb. 16, 1991
A performance by the New World Music Ensemble of Florida State University, featuring guest artist/composer Wadada Leo Smith. Filmed at Dohnányi Recital Hall, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States, February 16, 1991. Program: ● Solo set of improvisations by Wadada Leo Smith ● Wadada Leo Smith: Monk ● Wadada Leo Smith: Santur ● Wadada Leo Smith: Kweli ● Wadada Leo Smith: Afrocentricity (premiere) Personnel: Wadada Leo Smith (guest artist/composer) - trumpet, kalimba, koto, and voice Phil Gelb - shakuhachi Ashley Barret - English horn David Badagnani - oboe and sheng Yi Yi Wang - erhu Tim Fox - double bass Matt Sperry - 6-bass pans and double bass Atiba Kojo - gyil, berimbau, congas, and other percussion
published: 29 Jun 2017
Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 56:49
- Updated: 07 Jan 2016
- views: 3918
Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith is a boldly original figure in American jazz and one of the great trumpet play...
Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith is a boldly original figure in American jazz and one of the great trumpet players of our time. Smith’s classic Golden Quartet line-up features legendary improvisers Anthony Davis, John Lindberg, and Pheeroan akLaff, and AllMusic calls it “jazz that is so fresh and well executed as to define and remind what’s great about listening to the music.”
https://wn.com/Wadada_Leo_Smith’S_Golden_Quartet
Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith is a boldly original figure in American jazz and one of the great trumpet players of our time. Smith’s classic Golden Quartet line-up features legendary improvisers Anthony Davis, John Lindberg, and Pheeroan akLaff, and AllMusic calls it “jazz that is so fresh and well executed as to define and remind what’s great about listening to the music.”
- published: 07 Jan 2016
- views: 3918
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - at The Stone - Jan 25 2015
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 34:55
- Updated: 18 Dec 2015
- views: 5411
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Vijay Iyer - piano
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Vijay Iyer - piano
https://wn.com/Vijay_Iyer_Wadada_Leo_Smith_At_The_Stone_Jan_25_2015
Wadada Leo Smith Vijay Iyer - A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:09:34
- Updated: 15 Jan 2017
- views: 209
Due appassionati e appassionanti poeti e esploratori dei suoni e dell’improvvisazione: Vijay Iyer e Wadada Leo Smith spingono la musica improvvisata verso nuove...
Due appassionati e appassionanti poeti e esploratori dei suoni e dell’improvvisazione: Vijay Iyer e Wadada Leo Smith spingono la musica improvvisata verso nuove frontiere, varcate con la funambolica capacità creativa di chi è in possesso delle chiavi di accesso di arcani sistemi lessicali.
Musica che sa agire attraverso nuove concezioni del tempo e dello spazio, in un dialogo fitto e intenso che sa però trovare nuove libertà, nuova scioltezza, nuovi terreni d’incontro. Un duo che sa liberare la musica da lacci e lacciuoli per entrare nel campo della pura libertà poetica.
https://wn.com/Wadada_Leo_Smith_Vijay_Iyer_A_Cosmic_Rhythm_With_Each_Stroke
Due appassionati e appassionanti poeti e esploratori dei suoni e dell’improvvisazione: Vijay Iyer e Wadada Leo Smith spingono la musica improvvisata verso nuove frontiere, varcate con la funambolica capacità creativa di chi è in possesso delle chiavi di accesso di arcani sistemi lessicali.
Musica che sa agire attraverso nuove concezioni del tempo e dello spazio, in un dialogo fitto e intenso che sa però trovare nuove libertà, nuova scioltezza, nuovi terreni d’incontro. Un duo che sa liberare la musica da lacci e lacciuoli per entrare nel campo della pura libertà poetica.
- published: 15 Jan 2017
- views: 209
Leo Smith - Mass on the World
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 38:51
- Updated: 03 Jun 2014
- views: 1317
Leo Smith Trio,
Leo Smith - trumpet/flugelhorn/flute/bells/rattles
Dwight Andrews - saxophones/clarinet/alto flute/piccolo/gongs
Bobby Naughton vibraphone/bells...
Leo Smith Trio,
Leo Smith - trumpet/flugelhorn/flute/bells/rattles
Dwight Andrews - saxophones/clarinet/alto flute/piccolo/gongs
Bobby Naughton vibraphone/bells
https://wn.com/Leo_Smith_Mass_On_The_World
Leo Smith Trio,
Leo Smith - trumpet/flugelhorn/flute/bells/rattles
Dwight Andrews - saxophones/clarinet/alto flute/piccolo/gongs
Bobby Naughton vibraphone/bells
- published: 03 Jun 2014
- views: 1317
Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet - September 11th, 2001: A Memorial
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 21:23
- Updated: 21 Dec 2013
- views: 10710
Café Oto, London, 23 November 2013.
A part of the Ten Freedom Summers concerts at Café Oto, London 21, 22 & 23 November 2013
Golden Quartet:
Wadada Leo Smith ...
Café Oto, London, 23 November 2013.
A part of the Ten Freedom Summers concerts at Café Oto, London 21, 22 & 23 November 2013
Golden Quartet:
Wadada Leo Smith / trumpet, flugelhorn
Anthony Davis / piano
Anthony Brown / drums
John Lindberg / bass
Jesse Gilbert / artist
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/wadada-leo-smiths-ten-freedom-summers-at-london-jazz-festival-2013-wadada-leo-smith-by-john-sharpe.php?&pg;=1
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Café Oto, London, 23 November 2013.
A part of the Ten Freedom Summers concerts at Café Oto, London 21, 22 & 23 November 2013
Golden Quartet:
Wadada Leo Smith / trumpet, flugelhorn
Anthony Davis / piano
Anthony Brown / drums
John Lindberg / bass
Jesse Gilbert / artist
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/wadada-leo-smiths-ten-freedom-summers-at-london-jazz-festival-2013-wadada-leo-smith-by-john-sharpe.php?&pg;=1
- published: 21 Dec 2013
- views: 10710
Wadada Leo Smith, John Edwards, Mark Sanders @ Skaņu Mežs 2014
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 42:16
- Updated: 19 Dec 2014
- views: 2742
video by www.komuna7.lv
www.skanumezs.lv
Skaņu Mežs is a music festival which has as its goal to widen the audience’s horizons, and to offer alternatives to do...
video by www.komuna7.lv
www.skanumezs.lv
Skaņu Mežs is a music festival which has as its goal to widen the audience’s horizons, and to offer alternatives to dominant views on culture by introducing them to music, cinema and art
https://wn.com/Wadada_Leo_Smith,_John_Edwards,_Mark_Sanders_Skaņu_Mežs_2014
video by www.komuna7.lv
www.skanumezs.lv
Skaņu Mežs is a music festival which has as its goal to widen the audience’s horizons, and to offer alternatives to dominant views on culture by introducing them to music, cinema and art
- published: 19 Dec 2014
- views: 2742
Humanismo Justa / Trutmonda Muziko (Human Rights / World Music) - Wadada Leo Smith
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 30:24
- Updated: 04 May 2013
- views: 1420
"Human Rights" (vinyl, 1986)
"Human Rights" (vinyl, 1986)
https://wn.com/Humanismo_Justa_Trutmonda_Muziko_(Human_Rights_World_Music)_Wadada_Leo_Smith
WADADA LEO SMITH & LOUIS MOHOLO MOHOLO
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 48:43
- Updated: 25 Feb 2014
- views: 1289
Это видео создано с помощью видеоредактора YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/editor)
оригинал видео https://www.youtube.com/dzgast
Это видео создано с помощью видеоредактора YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/editor)
оригинал видео https://www.youtube.com/dzgast
https://wn.com/Wadada_Leo_Smith_Louis_Moholo_Moholo
Это видео создано с помощью видеоредактора YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/editor)
оригинал видео https://www.youtube.com/dzgast
- published: 25 Feb 2014
- views: 1289
Wadada Leo Smith & Hamid Drake - Empty Bottle Chicago 2001
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:15:46
- Updated: 14 May 2017
- views: 130
Wadada Leo Smith & Hamid Drake - Empty Bottle Chicago 2001
Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Hamid Drake: drums
-Video Upload powered by https://www.TunesToTube.com
Wadada Leo Smith & Hamid Drake - Empty Bottle Chicago 2001
Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Hamid Drake: drums
-Video Upload powered by https://www.TunesToTube.com
https://wn.com/Wadada_Leo_Smith_Hamid_Drake_Empty_Bottle_Chicago_2001
Wadada Leo Smith & Hamid Drake - Empty Bottle Chicago 2001
Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Hamid Drake: drums
-Video Upload powered by https://www.TunesToTube.com
- published: 14 May 2017
- views: 130
Wadada Leo Smith with the New World Music Ensemble, Feb. 16, 1991
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:27:22
- Updated: 29 Jun 2017
- views: 51
A performance by the New World Music Ensemble of Florida State University, featuring guest artist/composer Wadada Leo Smith.
Filmed at Dohnányi Recital Hall, F...
A performance by the New World Music Ensemble of Florida State University, featuring guest artist/composer Wadada Leo Smith.
Filmed at Dohnányi Recital Hall, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States, February 16, 1991.
Program:
● Solo set of improvisations by Wadada Leo Smith
● Wadada Leo Smith: Monk
● Wadada Leo Smith: Santur
● Wadada Leo Smith: Kweli
● Wadada Leo Smith: Afrocentricity (premiere)
Personnel:
Wadada Leo Smith (guest artist/composer) - trumpet, kalimba, koto, and voice
Phil Gelb - shakuhachi
Ashley Barret - English horn
David Badagnani - oboe and sheng
Yi Yi Wang - erhu
Tim Fox - double bass
Matt Sperry - 6-bass pans and double bass
Atiba Kojo - gyil, berimbau, congas, and other percussion
https://wn.com/Wadada_Leo_Smith_With_The_New_World_Music_Ensemble,_Feb._16,_1991
A performance by the New World Music Ensemble of Florida State University, featuring guest artist/composer Wadada Leo Smith.
Filmed at Dohnányi Recital Hall, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States, February 16, 1991.
Program:
● Solo set of improvisations by Wadada Leo Smith
● Wadada Leo Smith: Monk
● Wadada Leo Smith: Santur
● Wadada Leo Smith: Kweli
● Wadada Leo Smith: Afrocentricity (premiere)
Personnel:
Wadada Leo Smith (guest artist/composer) - trumpet, kalimba, koto, and voice
Phil Gelb - shakuhachi
Ashley Barret - English horn
David Badagnani - oboe and sheng
Yi Yi Wang - erhu
Tim Fox - double bass
Matt Sperry - 6-bass pans and double bass
Atiba Kojo - gyil, berimbau, congas, and other percussion
- published: 29 Jun 2017
- views: 51
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Wadada Leo Smith at the Library of Congress
Trumpeter, composer and bandleader Wadada Leo Smith interviewed by Larry Appelbaum in a pre-concert conversation at the Library of Congress, Nov. 20, 2011. This video is unedited.
published: 10 Oct 2011 -
Under_Line Salon: Wadada Leo Smith Discusses 'Ten Freedom Summers'
Under_Line Salon 4.19.15 In Performance & Conversation with Wadada Leo Smith Camera/Edit by Michael Lucio Sternbach Visit http://artsforart.org/community for updates and other information
published: 28 Apr 2015 -
Podcast Epsiode 1: Wadada Leo Smith Interview
This is an interview I did with the hugely important free and avant garde jazz trumpet player Wadada Leo Smith. Having grown up in Mississippi in the 1940s and 50s, Wadada experienced first hand the struggle of oppressive racism and the events of the civil rights movement. We will be discussing his piece Ten Freedom Summers which incorporates these themes directly into jazz composition. This piece is the main subject of his next Montreal show which will be taking place at Sala Rosa on June 2nd as a part of the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival. Also, Wadada will be taking part in a discussion with McGill Professor Eric Lewis the next day at the same venue.
published: 26 May 2016 -
Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith – A cosmic rhythm with each stroke (Album EPK)
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet Vijay Iyer: piano, Fender Rhodes piano, electronics Released in March 2016 – Available on CD / Download A cosmic rhythm with each stroke features pianist Viay Iyer and the musician he has described as his “hero, friend and teacher”, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith’s Golden Quartet, but the present album is the first documentation of their duo work, produced by Manfred Eicher at New York’s Avatar Studios in October 2015. The centre-piece of the album is the spellbinding title suite, dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990), the innovative Indian artist whose improvisatory imagery evokes abstracted rhythms. Trumpet and piano interact here with creative sensitivity to tone, ...
published: 10 Feb 2016 -
Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers - Interview with Jesse Gilbert, Video Artist
Short interview with Jesse Gilbert, video artist for Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers. The full suite will be premiered at Cafe OTO over three nights on the 21st, 22nd and 23rd of November as part of the 2013 EFG London Jazz Festival. Jesse Gilbert website: http://jessegilbert.net Tickets/Info: http://cafeoto.co.uk/ljf-wadada-leo-smith-ten-freedom-summers.shtm This engagement is supported by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
published: 15 Nov 2013 -
Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet
Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith is a boldly original figure in American jazz and one of the great trumpet players of our time. Smith’s classic Golden Quartet line-up features legendary improvisers Anthony Davis, John Lindberg, and Pheeroan akLaff, and AllMusic calls it “jazz that is so fresh and well executed as to define and remind what’s great about listening to the music.”
published: 07 Jan 2016 -
Wadada Leo Smith - New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718 [Excerpt]
Wadada Leo Smith - "New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718" [Excerpt] from 'America's National Parks' (out now on Cuneiform Records) Purchase now @ Amazon: http://amzn.to/2ew3J6M iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/americas-national-parks/id1160482622 Bandcamp: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks Bandcamp [HD]: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks-hd-96k-24b Wayside Music: http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Products/Smith-Wadada-Leo-Americas-National-Parks-2-x-CDs__Rune-spc-430-431.aspx "Smith uses his magisterial instrumental voice, his inspirational leadership and his command of classical, jazz and blues forms to remind us of what has gone down and what's still happening." – DownBeat’s 80 Coolest Things in Jaz...
published: 16 Sep 2016 -
A Neon Jazz Interview with Legendary Jazz Multi-Instrumentalist Wadada Leo Smith
Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Legendary Jazz Trumpeter, Composer, Arranger and Educator Wadada Leo Smith .. This journeyed jazz veteran has been all over the world creating cutting edge, avante garde music for decades. These days, he stays as busy as ever .. Over the course of our conversation, he spoke about his unique approach to teaching students, who has taught him the most, a music language he founded, who his jazz heroes are and much more .. Neon Jazz is a radio program airing since 2011. Hosted by Joe Dimino and Engineered by John Christoper in Kansas City, Missouri giving listeners a journey into one of America's finest inventions. Take a listen on KCXL (102.9 FM / 1140 AM) out of Liberty, MO on Saturday Mornings from 7:00 - 9:00 a.m. and Sunday ...
published: 15 Sep 2015 -
Wadada Leo Smith at Improv 21, San Francisco - Part 1: Performance
Wadada Leo Smith at Improv 21 - Part 1 of 4 "Performance" San Francisco Library of the Performing Arts - 3.8.07 Composer / trumpet player Wadada Leo Smith performs and speaks about his music. http://wadadaleosmith.com © Kosmic Music LLC 2009
published: 31 Jul 2009 -
Wadada Leo Smith: Decoding Ankhrasmation
What unifies all of Wadada Leo Smith's projects is what also makes them so different from each other—Smith's commitment to every musician having an individual sound. Video presentation by Molly Sheridan. Read a transcript of the entire conversation at NewMusicBox: http://www.newmusicbox.org/?p=13798
published: 01 May 2012
Wadada Leo Smith at the Library of Congress
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 27:38
- Updated: 10 Oct 2011
- views: 1105
Trumpeter, composer and bandleader Wadada Leo Smith interviewed by Larry Appelbaum in a pre-concert conversation at the Library of Congress, Nov. 20, 2011. This...
Trumpeter, composer and bandleader Wadada Leo Smith interviewed by Larry Appelbaum in a pre-concert conversation at the Library of Congress, Nov. 20, 2011. This video is unedited.
https://wn.com/Wadada_Leo_Smith_At_The_Library_Of_Congress
Trumpeter, composer and bandleader Wadada Leo Smith interviewed by Larry Appelbaum in a pre-concert conversation at the Library of Congress, Nov. 20, 2011. This video is unedited.
- published: 10 Oct 2011
- views: 1105
Under_Line Salon: Wadada Leo Smith Discusses 'Ten Freedom Summers'
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 18:59
- Updated: 28 Apr 2015
- views: 365
Under_Line Salon 4.19.15
In Performance & Conversation with Wadada Leo Smith
Camera/Edit by Michael Lucio Sternbach
Visit http://artsforart.org/community for...
Under_Line Salon 4.19.15
In Performance & Conversation with Wadada Leo Smith
Camera/Edit by Michael Lucio Sternbach
Visit http://artsforart.org/community for updates and other information
https://wn.com/Under_Line_Salon_Wadada_Leo_Smith_Discusses_'Ten_Freedom_Summers'
Under_Line Salon 4.19.15
In Performance & Conversation with Wadada Leo Smith
Camera/Edit by Michael Lucio Sternbach
Visit http://artsforart.org/community for updates and other information
- published: 28 Apr 2015
- views: 365
Podcast Epsiode 1: Wadada Leo Smith Interview
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 49:49
- Updated: 26 May 2016
- views: 140
This is an interview I did with the hugely important free and avant garde jazz trumpet player Wadada Leo Smith. Having grown up in Mississippi in the 1940s and...
This is an interview I did with the hugely important free and avant garde jazz trumpet player Wadada Leo Smith. Having grown up in Mississippi in the 1940s and 50s, Wadada experienced first hand the struggle of oppressive racism and the events of the civil rights movement. We will be discussing his piece Ten Freedom Summers which incorporates these themes directly into jazz composition. This piece is the main subject of his next Montreal show which will be taking place at Sala Rosa on June 2nd as a part of the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival. Also, Wadada will be taking part in a discussion with McGill Professor Eric Lewis the next day at the same venue.
https://wn.com/Podcast_Epsiode_1_Wadada_Leo_Smith_Interview
This is an interview I did with the hugely important free and avant garde jazz trumpet player Wadada Leo Smith. Having grown up in Mississippi in the 1940s and 50s, Wadada experienced first hand the struggle of oppressive racism and the events of the civil rights movement. We will be discussing his piece Ten Freedom Summers which incorporates these themes directly into jazz composition. This piece is the main subject of his next Montreal show which will be taking place at Sala Rosa on June 2nd as a part of the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival. Also, Wadada will be taking part in a discussion with McGill Professor Eric Lewis the next day at the same venue.
- published: 26 May 2016
- views: 140
Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith – A cosmic rhythm with each stroke (Album EPK)
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- Duration: 5:33
- Updated: 10 Feb 2016
- views: 37381
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke
Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Vijay Iyer: piano, Fender Rhodes piano, electronics
Released in March 2016 – Available on CD / Down...
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke
Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Vijay Iyer: piano, Fender Rhodes piano, electronics
Released in March 2016 – Available on CD / Download
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke features pianist Viay Iyer and the musician he has described as his “hero, friend and teacher”, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith’s Golden Quartet, but the present album is the first documentation of their duo work, produced by Manfred Eicher at New York’s Avatar Studios in October 2015. The centre-piece of the album is the spellbinding title suite, dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990), the innovative Indian artist whose improvisatory imagery evokes abstracted rhythms. Trumpet and piano interact here with creative sensitivity to tone, texture and space. Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith will be premiering A cosmic rhythm with each stroke at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in March 2016 in the context of a major exhibition dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi’s art and writings. The “suite for Nasreen” is framed on the album by Iyer’s composition “Passage” and Smith’s concluding piece “Marian Anderson”, inspired by the great US contralto.
ECM 2486
https://www.ecmrecords.com
https://wn.com/Vijay_Iyer_Wadada_Leo_Smith_–_A_Cosmic_Rhythm_With_Each_Stroke_(Album_Epk)
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke
Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Vijay Iyer: piano, Fender Rhodes piano, electronics
Released in March 2016 – Available on CD / Download
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke features pianist Viay Iyer and the musician he has described as his “hero, friend and teacher”, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith’s Golden Quartet, but the present album is the first documentation of their duo work, produced by Manfred Eicher at New York’s Avatar Studios in October 2015. The centre-piece of the album is the spellbinding title suite, dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990), the innovative Indian artist whose improvisatory imagery evokes abstracted rhythms. Trumpet and piano interact here with creative sensitivity to tone, texture and space. Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith will be premiering A cosmic rhythm with each stroke at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in March 2016 in the context of a major exhibition dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi’s art and writings. The “suite for Nasreen” is framed on the album by Iyer’s composition “Passage” and Smith’s concluding piece “Marian Anderson”, inspired by the great US contralto.
ECM 2486
https://www.ecmrecords.com
- published: 10 Feb 2016
- views: 37381
Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers - Interview with Jesse Gilbert, Video Artist
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- Duration: 6:49
- Updated: 15 Nov 2013
- views: 1042
Short interview with Jesse Gilbert, video artist for Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers. The full suite will be premiered at Cafe OTO over three nights on ...
Short interview with Jesse Gilbert, video artist for Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers. The full suite will be premiered at Cafe OTO over three nights on the 21st, 22nd and 23rd of November as part of the 2013 EFG London Jazz Festival.
Jesse Gilbert website: http://jessegilbert.net
Tickets/Info: http://cafeoto.co.uk/ljf-wadada-leo-smith-ten-freedom-summers.shtm
This engagement is supported by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
https://wn.com/Wadada_Leo_Smith's_Ten_Freedom_Summers_Interview_With_Jesse_Gilbert,_Video_Artist
Short interview with Jesse Gilbert, video artist for Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers. The full suite will be premiered at Cafe OTO over three nights on the 21st, 22nd and 23rd of November as part of the 2013 EFG London Jazz Festival.
Jesse Gilbert website: http://jessegilbert.net
Tickets/Info: http://cafeoto.co.uk/ljf-wadada-leo-smith-ten-freedom-summers.shtm
This engagement is supported by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- published: 15 Nov 2013
- views: 1042
Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet
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- Duration: 56:49
- Updated: 07 Jan 2016
- views: 3918
Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith is a boldly original figure in American jazz and one of the great trumpet play...
Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith is a boldly original figure in American jazz and one of the great trumpet players of our time. Smith’s classic Golden Quartet line-up features legendary improvisers Anthony Davis, John Lindberg, and Pheeroan akLaff, and AllMusic calls it “jazz that is so fresh and well executed as to define and remind what’s great about listening to the music.”
https://wn.com/Wadada_Leo_Smith’S_Golden_Quartet
Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith is a boldly original figure in American jazz and one of the great trumpet players of our time. Smith’s classic Golden Quartet line-up features legendary improvisers Anthony Davis, John Lindberg, and Pheeroan akLaff, and AllMusic calls it “jazz that is so fresh and well executed as to define and remind what’s great about listening to the music.”
- published: 07 Jan 2016
- views: 3918
Wadada Leo Smith - New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718 [Excerpt]
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- Duration: 12:13
- Updated: 16 Sep 2016
- views: 1722
Wadada Leo Smith - "New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718" [Excerpt] from 'America's National Parks' (out now on Cuneiform Records)
Purchase now @
Am...
Wadada Leo Smith - "New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718" [Excerpt] from 'America's National Parks' (out now on Cuneiform Records)
Purchase now @
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2ew3J6M
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/americas-national-parks/id1160482622
Bandcamp: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks
Bandcamp [HD]: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks-hd-96k-24b
Wayside Music: http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Products/Smith-Wadada-Leo-Americas-National-Parks-2-x-CDs__Rune-spc-430-431.aspx
"Smith uses his magisterial instrumental voice, his inspirational leadership and his command of classical, jazz and blues forms to remind us of what has gone down and what's still happening."
– DownBeat’s 80 Coolest Things in Jazz Today
"A trumpeter and composer of penetrating insight."
– Nate Chinen, The New York Times
Wadada Leo Smith – trumpet, director of the ensemble
Anthony Davis – piano
Ashley Walters – cello
John Lindberg – bass
Pheeroan akLaff – drums
With America’s National Parks, visionary composer and Wadada Leo Smith offers his latest epic collection, a suite inspired by the scenic splendor, historic legacy, and political controversies of the country’s public landscapes. Writing for his newly expanded Golden Quintet, Smith crafts six extended works that explore, confront and question the preserved natural resources that are considered the most hallowed ground in the U.S. – and some that should be.
America’s National Parks was released shortly before Smith’s 75th birthday in December, arriving, coincidentally, in the midst of celebrations for the centennial of the National Park Service, which was created by an act of Congress on August 25, 1916. The spark for the project, however, came from two places: Smith’s own research into the National Park system, beginning with Yellowstone, the world’s first national park; and Ken Burns’ 12-hour documentary series The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.
trumpeter six-movement"The idea that Ken Burns explored in that documentary was that the grandeur of nature was like a religion or a cathedral," Smith says. "I reject that image because the natural phenomenon in creation, just like man and stars and light and water, is all one thing, just a diffusion of energy. My focus is on the spiritual and psychological dimensions of the idea of setting aside reserves for common property of the American citizens."
His 28-page score for America’s National Parks was penned for his Golden Quintet, a fresh reconfiguration of the quartet that’s been a keystone of his expression for the last 16 years. Pianist Anthony Davis, bassist John Lindberg and drummer Pheeroan akLaff are joined by cellist Ashley Walters, affording the composer and bandleader new melodic and coloristic possibilities. "The cello as a lead voice with the trumpet is magnificent," Smith says, "but when you look at the possibilities for melodic formation with the trumpet, the cello, the piano and the bass, that’s paradise for a composer and for a performer."
While these preserved landscapes offer the inspiration of powerful natural beauty, Smith’s always open-minded view of the world leads him to find that same inspiration wherever he is. "Every concrete house is from nature," he says. "Every plastic airplane that flies 300 people across the ocean comes out of nature. Every air conditioner conditions a natural piece of air. I think that the human being is constantly enfolded in organic nature and constructed nature, so I’m constantly inspired, inside the house or outside the house."
https://wn.com/Wadada_Leo_Smith_New_Orleans_The_National_Culture_Park_USA_1718_Excerpt
Wadada Leo Smith - "New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718" [Excerpt] from 'America's National Parks' (out now on Cuneiform Records)
Purchase now @
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2ew3J6M
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/americas-national-parks/id1160482622
Bandcamp: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks
Bandcamp [HD]: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks-hd-96k-24b
Wayside Music: http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Products/Smith-Wadada-Leo-Americas-National-Parks-2-x-CDs__Rune-spc-430-431.aspx
"Smith uses his magisterial instrumental voice, his inspirational leadership and his command of classical, jazz and blues forms to remind us of what has gone down and what's still happening."
– DownBeat’s 80 Coolest Things in Jazz Today
"A trumpeter and composer of penetrating insight."
– Nate Chinen, The New York Times
Wadada Leo Smith – trumpet, director of the ensemble
Anthony Davis – piano
Ashley Walters – cello
John Lindberg – bass
Pheeroan akLaff – drums
With America’s National Parks, visionary composer and Wadada Leo Smith offers his latest epic collection, a suite inspired by the scenic splendor, historic legacy, and political controversies of the country’s public landscapes. Writing for his newly expanded Golden Quintet, Smith crafts six extended works that explore, confront and question the preserved natural resources that are considered the most hallowed ground in the U.S. – and some that should be.
America’s National Parks was released shortly before Smith’s 75th birthday in December, arriving, coincidentally, in the midst of celebrations for the centennial of the National Park Service, which was created by an act of Congress on August 25, 1916. The spark for the project, however, came from two places: Smith’s own research into the National Park system, beginning with Yellowstone, the world’s first national park; and Ken Burns’ 12-hour documentary series The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.
trumpeter six-movement"The idea that Ken Burns explored in that documentary was that the grandeur of nature was like a religion or a cathedral," Smith says. "I reject that image because the natural phenomenon in creation, just like man and stars and light and water, is all one thing, just a diffusion of energy. My focus is on the spiritual and psychological dimensions of the idea of setting aside reserves for common property of the American citizens."
His 28-page score for America’s National Parks was penned for his Golden Quintet, a fresh reconfiguration of the quartet that’s been a keystone of his expression for the last 16 years. Pianist Anthony Davis, bassist John Lindberg and drummer Pheeroan akLaff are joined by cellist Ashley Walters, affording the composer and bandleader new melodic and coloristic possibilities. "The cello as a lead voice with the trumpet is magnificent," Smith says, "but when you look at the possibilities for melodic formation with the trumpet, the cello, the piano and the bass, that’s paradise for a composer and for a performer."
While these preserved landscapes offer the inspiration of powerful natural beauty, Smith’s always open-minded view of the world leads him to find that same inspiration wherever he is. "Every concrete house is from nature," he says. "Every plastic airplane that flies 300 people across the ocean comes out of nature. Every air conditioner conditions a natural piece of air. I think that the human being is constantly enfolded in organic nature and constructed nature, so I’m constantly inspired, inside the house or outside the house."
- published: 16 Sep 2016
- views: 1722
A Neon Jazz Interview with Legendary Jazz Multi-Instrumentalist Wadada Leo Smith
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- Duration: 36:43
- Updated: 15 Sep 2015
- views: 51
Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Legendary Jazz Trumpeter, Composer, Arranger and Educator Wadada Leo Smith .. This journeyed jaz...
Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Legendary Jazz Trumpeter, Composer, Arranger and Educator Wadada Leo Smith .. This journeyed jazz veteran has been all over the world creating cutting edge, avante garde music for decades. These days, he stays as busy as ever .. Over the course of our conversation, he spoke about his unique approach to teaching students, who has taught him the most, a music language he founded, who his jazz heroes are and much more ..
Neon Jazz is a radio program airing since 2011. Hosted by Joe Dimino and Engineered by John Christoper in Kansas City, Missouri giving listeners a journey into one of America's finest inventions. Take a listen on KCXL (102.9 FM / 1140 AM) out of Liberty, MO on Saturday Mornings from 7:00 - 9:00 a.m. and Sunday Mornings from 6:00 – 7:00 a.m. Listen to KCXL on Tunein Radio at http://tunein.com/radio/Neon-Jazz-With-Joe-Dimino-p381685/. For all things Neon Jazz, visit http://theneonjazz.blogspot.com/
https://wn.com/A_Neon_Jazz_Interview_With_Legendary_Jazz_Multi_Instrumentalist_Wadada_Leo_Smith
Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Legendary Jazz Trumpeter, Composer, Arranger and Educator Wadada Leo Smith .. This journeyed jazz veteran has been all over the world creating cutting edge, avante garde music for decades. These days, he stays as busy as ever .. Over the course of our conversation, he spoke about his unique approach to teaching students, who has taught him the most, a music language he founded, who his jazz heroes are and much more ..
Neon Jazz is a radio program airing since 2011. Hosted by Joe Dimino and Engineered by John Christoper in Kansas City, Missouri giving listeners a journey into one of America's finest inventions. Take a listen on KCXL (102.9 FM / 1140 AM) out of Liberty, MO on Saturday Mornings from 7:00 - 9:00 a.m. and Sunday Mornings from 6:00 – 7:00 a.m. Listen to KCXL on Tunein Radio at http://tunein.com/radio/Neon-Jazz-With-Joe-Dimino-p381685/. For all things Neon Jazz, visit http://theneonjazz.blogspot.com/
- published: 15 Sep 2015
- views: 51
Wadada Leo Smith at Improv 21, San Francisco - Part 1: Performance
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- Duration: 2:42
- Updated: 31 Jul 2009
- views: 9965
Wadada Leo Smith at Improv 21 - Part 1 of 4 "Performance"
San Francisco Library of the Performing Arts - 3.8.07
Composer / trumpet player Wadada Leo Smith ...
Wadada Leo Smith at Improv 21 - Part 1 of 4 "Performance"
San Francisco Library of the Performing Arts - 3.8.07
Composer / trumpet player Wadada Leo Smith performs and speaks about his music.
http://wadadaleosmith.com © Kosmic Music LLC 2009
https://wn.com/Wadada_Leo_Smith_At_Improv_21,_San_Francisco_Part_1_Performance
Wadada Leo Smith at Improv 21 - Part 1 of 4 "Performance"
San Francisco Library of the Performing Arts - 3.8.07
Composer / trumpet player Wadada Leo Smith performs and speaks about his music.
http://wadadaleosmith.com © Kosmic Music LLC 2009
- published: 31 Jul 2009
- views: 9965
Wadada Leo Smith: Decoding Ankhrasmation
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- Duration: 9:40
- Updated: 01 May 2012
- views: 2037
What unifies all of Wadada Leo Smith's projects is what also makes them so different from each other—Smith's commitment to every musician having an individual s...
What unifies all of Wadada Leo Smith's projects is what also makes them so different from each other—Smith's commitment to every musician having an individual sound.
Video presentation by Molly Sheridan.
Read a transcript of the entire conversation at NewMusicBox: http://www.newmusicbox.org/?p=13798
https://wn.com/Wadada_Leo_Smith_Decoding_Ankhrasmation
What unifies all of Wadada Leo Smith's projects is what also makes them so different from each other—Smith's commitment to every musician having an individual sound.
Video presentation by Molly Sheridan.
Read a transcript of the entire conversation at NewMusicBox: http://www.newmusicbox.org/?p=13798
- published: 01 May 2012
- views: 2037
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Wadada Leo Smith - New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718 [Excerpt]
Wadada Leo Smith - "New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718" [Excerpt] from 'America's National Parks' (out now on Cuneiform Records) Purchase now @ Amazon: http://amzn.to/2ew3J6M iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/americas-national-parks/id1160482622 Bandcamp: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks Bandcamp [HD]: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks-hd-96k-24b Wayside Music: http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Products/Smith-Wadada-Leo-Americas-National-Parks-2-x-CDs__Rune-spc-430-431.aspx "Smith uses his magisterial instrumental voice, his inspirational leadership and his command of classical, jazz and blues forms to remind us of what has gone down and what's still happening." – DownBeat’s 80 Coolest Things in Jaz...
published: 16 Sep 2016 -
Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet
Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith is a boldly original figure in American jazz and one of the great trumpet players of our time. Smith’s classic Golden Quartet line-up features legendary improvisers Anthony Davis, John Lindberg, and Pheeroan akLaff, and AllMusic calls it “jazz that is so fresh and well executed as to define and remind what’s great about listening to the music.”
published: 07 Jan 2016 -
Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith – A cosmic rhythm with each stroke (Album EPK)
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet Vijay Iyer: piano, Fender Rhodes piano, electronics Released in March 2016 – Available on CD / Download A cosmic rhythm with each stroke features pianist Viay Iyer and the musician he has described as his “hero, friend and teacher”, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith’s Golden Quartet, but the present album is the first documentation of their duo work, produced by Manfred Eicher at New York’s Avatar Studios in October 2015. The centre-piece of the album is the spellbinding title suite, dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990), the innovative Indian artist whose improvisatory imagery evokes abstracted rhythms. Trumpet and piano interact here with creative sensitivity to tone, ...
published: 10 Feb 2016 -
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith – Passages
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith a cosmic rhythm with each stroke Vijay Iyer: Piano, Fender Rhodes, Electronics Wadada Leo Smith: Trumpet "a cosmic rhythm with each stroke" features pianist Viay Iyer and the musician he has described as his “hero, friend and teacher”, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith’s Golden Quartet, but the present album is the first documentation of their duo work, produced by Manfred Eicher at New York’s Avatar Studios in October 2015. The centre-piece of the album is the spellbinding title suite, dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990), the innovative Indian artist whose improvisatory imagery evokes abstracted rhythms. Trumpet and piano interact here with creative sensitivity to tone, texture and space. Vijay Iy...
published: 14 Mar 2016 -
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - at The Stone - Jan 25 2015
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano
published: 18 Dec 2015 -
Wadada Leo Smith - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Martin Luther King, Jr." by Wadada Leo Smith from the album 'Ten Freedom Summers' (Cuneiform Records). Purchase now at: Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Freedom-Sum... iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ten... Bandcamp - http://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/... Wayside - http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pro... Album Personnel: Wadada Leo Smith - composer, trumpet Anthony Davis - piano John Lindberg - bass Pheeroan akLaff - drums Susie Ibarra - drums Trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith’s Ten Freedom Summers is the work of a lifetime by one of jazz’s true visionaries, a kaleidoscopic, spiritually charged opus inspired by the struggle for African-American freedom and equality before the law. Triumphant and mournful, visceral and philosophical, searching, scathing and relentless...
published: 15 Mar 2013 -
Helen Petts' film of Wadada Leo Smith, Louis Moholo, Steve Noble 1.
Filmed by Helen Petts at Freedom of the City festival, 2010, London. See also http://youtu.be/1QzBTnbcAtY If you want to link this clip please contact me for permission. www.helenpetts.com
published: 03 May 2010 -
Wadada Leo Smith Vijay Iyer - A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
Due appassionati e appassionanti poeti e esploratori dei suoni e dell’improvvisazione: Vijay Iyer e Wadada Leo Smith spingono la musica improvvisata verso nuove frontiere, varcate con la funambolica capacità creativa di chi è in possesso delle chiavi di accesso di arcani sistemi lessicali. Musica che sa agire attraverso nuove concezioni del tempo e dello spazio, in un dialogo fitto e intenso che sa però trovare nuove libertà, nuova scioltezza, nuovi terreni d’incontro. Un duo che sa liberare la musica da lacci e lacciuoli per entrare nel campo della pura libertà poetica.
published: 15 Jan 2017 -
Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith - Moja - Nne'
Tribute to Miles Davis. From the album "Yo Miles!" (Shanachie, 1998)
published: 10 Mar 2013 -
Wadada Leo Smith - New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718 [Excerpt]
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 12:13
- Updated: 16 Sep 2016
- views: 1722
Wadada Leo Smith - "New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718" [Excerpt] from 'America's National Parks' (out now on Cuneiform Records)
Purchase now @
Am...
Wadada Leo Smith - "New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718" [Excerpt] from 'America's National Parks' (out now on Cuneiform Records)
Purchase now @
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2ew3J6M
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/americas-national-parks/id1160482622
Bandcamp: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks
Bandcamp [HD]: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks-hd-96k-24b
Wayside Music: http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Products/Smith-Wadada-Leo-Americas-National-Parks-2-x-CDs__Rune-spc-430-431.aspx
"Smith uses his magisterial instrumental voice, his inspirational leadership and his command of classical, jazz and blues forms to remind us of what has gone down and what's still happening."
– DownBeat’s 80 Coolest Things in Jazz Today
"A trumpeter and composer of penetrating insight."
– Nate Chinen, The New York Times
Wadada Leo Smith – trumpet, director of the ensemble
Anthony Davis – piano
Ashley Walters – cello
John Lindberg – bass
Pheeroan akLaff – drums
With America’s National Parks, visionary composer and Wadada Leo Smith offers his latest epic collection, a suite inspired by the scenic splendor, historic legacy, and political controversies of the country’s public landscapes. Writing for his newly expanded Golden Quintet, Smith crafts six extended works that explore, confront and question the preserved natural resources that are considered the most hallowed ground in the U.S. – and some that should be.
America’s National Parks was released shortly before Smith’s 75th birthday in December, arriving, coincidentally, in the midst of celebrations for the centennial of the National Park Service, which was created by an act of Congress on August 25, 1916. The spark for the project, however, came from two places: Smith’s own research into the National Park system, beginning with Yellowstone, the world’s first national park; and Ken Burns’ 12-hour documentary series The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.
trumpeter six-movement"The idea that Ken Burns explored in that documentary was that the grandeur of nature was like a religion or a cathedral," Smith says. "I reject that image because the natural phenomenon in creation, just like man and stars and light and water, is all one thing, just a diffusion of energy. My focus is on the spiritual and psychological dimensions of the idea of setting aside reserves for common property of the American citizens."
His 28-page score for America’s National Parks was penned for his Golden Quintet, a fresh reconfiguration of the quartet that’s been a keystone of his expression for the last 16 years. Pianist Anthony Davis, bassist John Lindberg and drummer Pheeroan akLaff are joined by cellist Ashley Walters, affording the composer and bandleader new melodic and coloristic possibilities. "The cello as a lead voice with the trumpet is magnificent," Smith says, "but when you look at the possibilities for melodic formation with the trumpet, the cello, the piano and the bass, that’s paradise for a composer and for a performer."
While these preserved landscapes offer the inspiration of powerful natural beauty, Smith’s always open-minded view of the world leads him to find that same inspiration wherever he is. "Every concrete house is from nature," he says. "Every plastic airplane that flies 300 people across the ocean comes out of nature. Every air conditioner conditions a natural piece of air. I think that the human being is constantly enfolded in organic nature and constructed nature, so I’m constantly inspired, inside the house or outside the house."
https://wn.com/Wadada_Leo_Smith_New_Orleans_The_National_Culture_Park_USA_1718_Excerpt
Wadada Leo Smith - "New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718" [Excerpt] from 'America's National Parks' (out now on Cuneiform Records)
Purchase now @
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2ew3J6M
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/americas-national-parks/id1160482622
Bandcamp: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks
Bandcamp [HD]: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks-hd-96k-24b
Wayside Music: http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Products/Smith-Wadada-Leo-Americas-National-Parks-2-x-CDs__Rune-spc-430-431.aspx
"Smith uses his magisterial instrumental voice, his inspirational leadership and his command of classical, jazz and blues forms to remind us of what has gone down and what's still happening."
– DownBeat’s 80 Coolest Things in Jazz Today
"A trumpeter and composer of penetrating insight."
– Nate Chinen, The New York Times
Wadada Leo Smith – trumpet, director of the ensemble
Anthony Davis – piano
Ashley Walters – cello
John Lindberg – bass
Pheeroan akLaff – drums
With America’s National Parks, visionary composer and Wadada Leo Smith offers his latest epic collection, a suite inspired by the scenic splendor, historic legacy, and political controversies of the country’s public landscapes. Writing for his newly expanded Golden Quintet, Smith crafts six extended works that explore, confront and question the preserved natural resources that are considered the most hallowed ground in the U.S. – and some that should be.
America’s National Parks was released shortly before Smith’s 75th birthday in December, arriving, coincidentally, in the midst of celebrations for the centennial of the National Park Service, which was created by an act of Congress on August 25, 1916. The spark for the project, however, came from two places: Smith’s own research into the National Park system, beginning with Yellowstone, the world’s first national park; and Ken Burns’ 12-hour documentary series The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.
trumpeter six-movement"The idea that Ken Burns explored in that documentary was that the grandeur of nature was like a religion or a cathedral," Smith says. "I reject that image because the natural phenomenon in creation, just like man and stars and light and water, is all one thing, just a diffusion of energy. My focus is on the spiritual and psychological dimensions of the idea of setting aside reserves for common property of the American citizens."
His 28-page score for America’s National Parks was penned for his Golden Quintet, a fresh reconfiguration of the quartet that’s been a keystone of his expression for the last 16 years. Pianist Anthony Davis, bassist John Lindberg and drummer Pheeroan akLaff are joined by cellist Ashley Walters, affording the composer and bandleader new melodic and coloristic possibilities. "The cello as a lead voice with the trumpet is magnificent," Smith says, "but when you look at the possibilities for melodic formation with the trumpet, the cello, the piano and the bass, that’s paradise for a composer and for a performer."
While these preserved landscapes offer the inspiration of powerful natural beauty, Smith’s always open-minded view of the world leads him to find that same inspiration wherever he is. "Every concrete house is from nature," he says. "Every plastic airplane that flies 300 people across the ocean comes out of nature. Every air conditioner conditions a natural piece of air. I think that the human being is constantly enfolded in organic nature and constructed nature, so I’m constantly inspired, inside the house or outside the house."
- published: 16 Sep 2016
- views: 1722
Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet
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- Duration: 56:49
- Updated: 07 Jan 2016
- views: 3918
Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith is a boldly original figure in American jazz and one of the great trumpet play...
Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith is a boldly original figure in American jazz and one of the great trumpet players of our time. Smith’s classic Golden Quartet line-up features legendary improvisers Anthony Davis, John Lindberg, and Pheeroan akLaff, and AllMusic calls it “jazz that is so fresh and well executed as to define and remind what’s great about listening to the music.”
https://wn.com/Wadada_Leo_Smith’S_Golden_Quartet
Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith is a boldly original figure in American jazz and one of the great trumpet players of our time. Smith’s classic Golden Quartet line-up features legendary improvisers Anthony Davis, John Lindberg, and Pheeroan akLaff, and AllMusic calls it “jazz that is so fresh and well executed as to define and remind what’s great about listening to the music.”
- published: 07 Jan 2016
- views: 3918
Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith – A cosmic rhythm with each stroke (Album EPK)
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- Duration: 5:33
- Updated: 10 Feb 2016
- views: 37381
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke
Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Vijay Iyer: piano, Fender Rhodes piano, electronics
Released in March 2016 – Available on CD / Down...
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke
Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Vijay Iyer: piano, Fender Rhodes piano, electronics
Released in March 2016 – Available on CD / Download
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke features pianist Viay Iyer and the musician he has described as his “hero, friend and teacher”, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith’s Golden Quartet, but the present album is the first documentation of their duo work, produced by Manfred Eicher at New York’s Avatar Studios in October 2015. The centre-piece of the album is the spellbinding title suite, dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990), the innovative Indian artist whose improvisatory imagery evokes abstracted rhythms. Trumpet and piano interact here with creative sensitivity to tone, texture and space. Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith will be premiering A cosmic rhythm with each stroke at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in March 2016 in the context of a major exhibition dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi’s art and writings. The “suite for Nasreen” is framed on the album by Iyer’s composition “Passage” and Smith’s concluding piece “Marian Anderson”, inspired by the great US contralto.
ECM 2486
https://www.ecmrecords.com
https://wn.com/Vijay_Iyer_Wadada_Leo_Smith_–_A_Cosmic_Rhythm_With_Each_Stroke_(Album_Epk)
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke
Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Vijay Iyer: piano, Fender Rhodes piano, electronics
Released in March 2016 – Available on CD / Download
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke features pianist Viay Iyer and the musician he has described as his “hero, friend and teacher”, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith’s Golden Quartet, but the present album is the first documentation of their duo work, produced by Manfred Eicher at New York’s Avatar Studios in October 2015. The centre-piece of the album is the spellbinding title suite, dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990), the innovative Indian artist whose improvisatory imagery evokes abstracted rhythms. Trumpet and piano interact here with creative sensitivity to tone, texture and space. Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith will be premiering A cosmic rhythm with each stroke at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in March 2016 in the context of a major exhibition dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi’s art and writings. The “suite for Nasreen” is framed on the album by Iyer’s composition “Passage” and Smith’s concluding piece “Marian Anderson”, inspired by the great US contralto.
ECM 2486
https://www.ecmrecords.com
- published: 10 Feb 2016
- views: 37381
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith – Passages
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- Duration: 6:16
- Updated: 14 Mar 2016
- views: 65175
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith
a cosmic rhythm with each stroke
Vijay Iyer: Piano, Fender Rhodes, Electronics
Wadada Leo Smith: Trumpet
"a cosmic rhythm with e...
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith
a cosmic rhythm with each stroke
Vijay Iyer: Piano, Fender Rhodes, Electronics
Wadada Leo Smith: Trumpet
"a cosmic rhythm with each stroke" features pianist Viay Iyer and the musician he has described as his “hero, friend and teacher”, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith’s Golden Quartet, but the present album is the first documentation of their duo work, produced by Manfred Eicher at New York’s Avatar Studios in October 2015. The centre-piece of the album is the spellbinding title suite, dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990), the innovative Indian artist whose improvisatory imagery evokes abstracted rhythms. Trumpet and piano interact here with creative sensitivity to tone, texture and space. Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith will be premiering a cosmic rhythm with each stroke at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in March 2016 in the context of a major exhibition dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi’s art and writings. The “suite for Nasreen” is framed on the album by Iyer’s composition “Passage” and Smith’s concluding piece “Marian Anderson”, inspired by the great US contralto.
ECM 2486
https://www.ecmrecords.com
https://wn.com/Vijay_Iyer_Wadada_Leo_Smith_–_Passages
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith
a cosmic rhythm with each stroke
Vijay Iyer: Piano, Fender Rhodes, Electronics
Wadada Leo Smith: Trumpet
"a cosmic rhythm with each stroke" features pianist Viay Iyer and the musician he has described as his “hero, friend and teacher”, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith’s Golden Quartet, but the present album is the first documentation of their duo work, produced by Manfred Eicher at New York’s Avatar Studios in October 2015. The centre-piece of the album is the spellbinding title suite, dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990), the innovative Indian artist whose improvisatory imagery evokes abstracted rhythms. Trumpet and piano interact here with creative sensitivity to tone, texture and space. Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith will be premiering a cosmic rhythm with each stroke at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in March 2016 in the context of a major exhibition dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi’s art and writings. The “suite for Nasreen” is framed on the album by Iyer’s composition “Passage” and Smith’s concluding piece “Marian Anderson”, inspired by the great US contralto.
ECM 2486
https://www.ecmrecords.com
- published: 14 Mar 2016
- views: 65175
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - at The Stone - Jan 25 2015
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 34:55
- Updated: 18 Dec 2015
- views: 5411
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Vijay Iyer - piano
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Vijay Iyer - piano
https://wn.com/Vijay_Iyer_Wadada_Leo_Smith_At_The_Stone_Jan_25_2015
Wadada Leo Smith - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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- Duration: 8:07
- Updated: 15 Mar 2013
- views: 20401
"Martin Luther King, Jr." by Wadada Leo Smith from the album 'Ten Freedom Summers' (Cuneiform Records).
Purchase now at:
Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Fre...
"Martin Luther King, Jr." by Wadada Leo Smith from the album 'Ten Freedom Summers' (Cuneiform Records).
Purchase now at:
Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Freedom-Sum...
iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ten...
Bandcamp - http://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/...
Wayside - http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pro...
Album Personnel:
Wadada Leo Smith - composer, trumpet
Anthony Davis - piano
John Lindberg - bass
Pheeroan akLaff - drums
Susie Ibarra - drums
Trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith’s Ten Freedom Summers is the work of a lifetime by one of jazz’s true visionaries, a kaleidoscopic, spiritually charged opus inspired by the struggle for African-American freedom and equality before the law. Triumphant and mournful, visceral and philosophical, searching, scathing and relentlessly humane, Smith’s music embraces the turbulent era’s milestones while celebrating the civil rights movement’s heroes and martyrs. This four-disc set documents a stunning, career-capping accomplishment by a jazz giant in the midst of an astonishing creative surge.
An orchestral collaboration with the acclaimed eight-piece ensemble Southwest Chamber Music (harp, clarinet, 2 violins, cello, flute, viola, bass, percussion) conducted by Grammy Award-winner Jeff von der Schmidt, Ten Freedom Summers is built upon Smith’s celebrated Golden Quartet featuring pianist Anthony Davis, bassist John Lindberg, drummer Susie Ibarra and/or drummer Pheeroan akLaaf (who often expands the ensemble to a quintet). As a child of the Deep South who was raised in the red-hot crucible of the civil rights movement, Smith traces the project’s origins back to 1977, when he wrote “Medgar Evers,” an expansive evocation of the NAACP activist gunned down in Mississippi 14 years earlier.
Working in fits and starts, Smith completed the 19-piece project 34 years later in October of 2011 with a portentous, elegiac piece for Southwest Chamber Music. In designing the huge, multi-movement work, he focused on the transformative decade framed by the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
"I was born in 1941 and grew up in segregated Mississippi and experienced the conditions which made it imperative for an activist movement for equality,” says Smith says, who marked his 70th birthday with a presentation of this, perhaps his most ambitious undertaking. “I saw that stuff happening. Those are the moments that triggered this. It was in that same environment that I had my first dreams of becoming a composer and performer.”
After decades of being revered by his peers and colleagues, Smith is attaining his rightful place at the forefront of American music. Ten Freedom Summers is an important work that combines unique, fully scored rigorous passages and great improvisational skills into one huge and cohesive work. It is a thrilling, emotionally charged and satisfying work from a master.
"Smith has called “Ten Freedom Summers” his “defining life’s work” and it, likewise, has been hailed everywhere from Downbeat magazine to the British Broadcasting Corporation as his masterpiece."
-Will Stewart, Ann Arbor News
"This is reflective of the times that Smith grew up in. As a 70-year-old man, he has both seen and felt the civil rights struggles that have helped to shape the course of American history in the 20th century, and rather than use these as a provocation for something purely rhetorical, he has utilized them in his art, and thus overtly yet subtly indicated their profundity."
-Nic Jones, AllAboutJazz
"Smith’s own playing is as razor-focused and regal as ever, moving from stentorian salvos to intricate muted passages and covering the full brass spectrum in-between with persistent stamina and creativity. His role is one of equal-footing ensemble participant rather than that of dominant alpha-male leader, a Zen-like temperament that carries over into the natural ebb and flow of the compositions."
-Derek Taylor, DustedMagazine
For more information:
http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/
http://twitter.com/cuneiformrecord
http://www.facebook.com/cuneiformrecords
https://www.instagram.com/cuneiformre...
https://wn.com/Wadada_Leo_Smith_Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.
"Martin Luther King, Jr." by Wadada Leo Smith from the album 'Ten Freedom Summers' (Cuneiform Records).
Purchase now at:
Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Freedom-Sum...
iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ten...
Bandcamp - http://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/...
Wayside - http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pro...
Album Personnel:
Wadada Leo Smith - composer, trumpet
Anthony Davis - piano
John Lindberg - bass
Pheeroan akLaff - drums
Susie Ibarra - drums
Trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith’s Ten Freedom Summers is the work of a lifetime by one of jazz’s true visionaries, a kaleidoscopic, spiritually charged opus inspired by the struggle for African-American freedom and equality before the law. Triumphant and mournful, visceral and philosophical, searching, scathing and relentlessly humane, Smith’s music embraces the turbulent era’s milestones while celebrating the civil rights movement’s heroes and martyrs. This four-disc set documents a stunning, career-capping accomplishment by a jazz giant in the midst of an astonishing creative surge.
An orchestral collaboration with the acclaimed eight-piece ensemble Southwest Chamber Music (harp, clarinet, 2 violins, cello, flute, viola, bass, percussion) conducted by Grammy Award-winner Jeff von der Schmidt, Ten Freedom Summers is built upon Smith’s celebrated Golden Quartet featuring pianist Anthony Davis, bassist John Lindberg, drummer Susie Ibarra and/or drummer Pheeroan akLaaf (who often expands the ensemble to a quintet). As a child of the Deep South who was raised in the red-hot crucible of the civil rights movement, Smith traces the project’s origins back to 1977, when he wrote “Medgar Evers,” an expansive evocation of the NAACP activist gunned down in Mississippi 14 years earlier.
Working in fits and starts, Smith completed the 19-piece project 34 years later in October of 2011 with a portentous, elegiac piece for Southwest Chamber Music. In designing the huge, multi-movement work, he focused on the transformative decade framed by the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
"I was born in 1941 and grew up in segregated Mississippi and experienced the conditions which made it imperative for an activist movement for equality,” says Smith says, who marked his 70th birthday with a presentation of this, perhaps his most ambitious undertaking. “I saw that stuff happening. Those are the moments that triggered this. It was in that same environment that I had my first dreams of becoming a composer and performer.”
After decades of being revered by his peers and colleagues, Smith is attaining his rightful place at the forefront of American music. Ten Freedom Summers is an important work that combines unique, fully scored rigorous passages and great improvisational skills into one huge and cohesive work. It is a thrilling, emotionally charged and satisfying work from a master.
"Smith has called “Ten Freedom Summers” his “defining life’s work” and it, likewise, has been hailed everywhere from Downbeat magazine to the British Broadcasting Corporation as his masterpiece."
-Will Stewart, Ann Arbor News
"This is reflective of the times that Smith grew up in. As a 70-year-old man, he has both seen and felt the civil rights struggles that have helped to shape the course of American history in the 20th century, and rather than use these as a provocation for something purely rhetorical, he has utilized them in his art, and thus overtly yet subtly indicated their profundity."
-Nic Jones, AllAboutJazz
"Smith’s own playing is as razor-focused and regal as ever, moving from stentorian salvos to intricate muted passages and covering the full brass spectrum in-between with persistent stamina and creativity. His role is one of equal-footing ensemble participant rather than that of dominant alpha-male leader, a Zen-like temperament that carries over into the natural ebb and flow of the compositions."
-Derek Taylor, DustedMagazine
For more information:
http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/
http://twitter.com/cuneiformrecord
http://www.facebook.com/cuneiformrecords
https://www.instagram.com/cuneiformre...
- published: 15 Mar 2013
- views: 20401
Helen Petts' film of Wadada Leo Smith, Louis Moholo, Steve Noble 1.
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- Duration: 10:25
- Updated: 03 May 2010
- views: 6296
Filmed by Helen Petts at Freedom of the City festival, 2010, London. See also http://youtu.be/1QzBTnbcAtY
If you want to link this clip please contact me for pe...
Filmed by Helen Petts at Freedom of the City festival, 2010, London. See also http://youtu.be/1QzBTnbcAtY
If you want to link this clip please contact me for permission. www.helenpetts.com
https://wn.com/Helen_Petts'_Film_Of_Wadada_Leo_Smith,_Louis_Moholo,_Steve_Noble_1.
Filmed by Helen Petts at Freedom of the City festival, 2010, London. See also http://youtu.be/1QzBTnbcAtY
If you want to link this clip please contact me for permission. www.helenpetts.com
- published: 03 May 2010
- views: 6296
Wadada Leo Smith Vijay Iyer - A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:09:34
- Updated: 15 Jan 2017
- views: 209
Due appassionati e appassionanti poeti e esploratori dei suoni e dell’improvvisazione: Vijay Iyer e Wadada Leo Smith spingono la musica improvvisata verso nuove...
Due appassionati e appassionanti poeti e esploratori dei suoni e dell’improvvisazione: Vijay Iyer e Wadada Leo Smith spingono la musica improvvisata verso nuove frontiere, varcate con la funambolica capacità creativa di chi è in possesso delle chiavi di accesso di arcani sistemi lessicali.
Musica che sa agire attraverso nuove concezioni del tempo e dello spazio, in un dialogo fitto e intenso che sa però trovare nuove libertà, nuova scioltezza, nuovi terreni d’incontro. Un duo che sa liberare la musica da lacci e lacciuoli per entrare nel campo della pura libertà poetica.
https://wn.com/Wadada_Leo_Smith_Vijay_Iyer_A_Cosmic_Rhythm_With_Each_Stroke
Due appassionati e appassionanti poeti e esploratori dei suoni e dell’improvvisazione: Vijay Iyer e Wadada Leo Smith spingono la musica improvvisata verso nuove frontiere, varcate con la funambolica capacità creativa di chi è in possesso delle chiavi di accesso di arcani sistemi lessicali.
Musica che sa agire attraverso nuove concezioni del tempo e dello spazio, in un dialogo fitto e intenso che sa però trovare nuove libertà, nuova scioltezza, nuovi terreni d’incontro. Un duo che sa liberare la musica da lacci e lacciuoli per entrare nel campo della pura libertà poetica.
- published: 15 Jan 2017
- views: 209
Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith - Moja - Nne'
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- Duration: 10:14
- Updated: 10 Mar 2013
- views: 7553
Tribute to Miles Davis. From the album "Yo Miles!" (Shanachie, 1998)
- published: 10 Mar 2013
- views: 7553
Wadada Leo Smith "Until the Fire"
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- Duration: 11:29
- Updated: 22 Apr 2015
- views: 1648
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Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - at The Stone - Jan 25 2015
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano
published: 18 Dec 2015 -
Bishopsgate Duo Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith / John Tilbury (2014 aud)
from the CD, Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith / John Tilbury - Bishopsgate Concert...
published: 09 Jun 2017 -
Wadada Leo Smith & Hamid Drake - Empty Bottle Chicago 2001
Wadada Leo Smith & Hamid Drake - Empty Bottle Chicago 2001 Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet Hamid Drake: drums -Video Upload powered by https://www.TunesToTube.com
published: 14 May 2017 -
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith at The Stone Jan 25 2015
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano. Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano. Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano Reggie Workman - bass Nitin Mitta - tabla Patricia Brennan . Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano Reggie Workman - bass Nitin Mitta - tabla Patricia Brennan - vibraphone at The Stone, NYC - January 25 2015. Due appassionati e appassionanti poeti e esploratori dei suoni e dell'improvvisazione: Vijay Iyer e Wadada Leo Smith spingono la musica improvvisata verso .
published: 03 Jan 2017 -
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith at The Stone Jan 25 2015
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano. Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano. Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano Reggie Workman - bass Nitin Mitta - tabla Patricia Brennan . Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano Reggie Workman - bass Nitin Mitta - tabla Patricia Brennan - vibraphone at The Stone, NYC - January 25 2015. Due appassionati e appassionanti poeti e esploratori dei suoni e dell'improvvisazione: Vijay Iyer e Wadada Leo Smith spingono la musica improvvisata verso .
published: 18 Nov 2016 -
Wadada Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell & Joseph Jarman - part 2
Wadada Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell & Joseph Jarman - part 2 Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Roscoe Mitchell - reeds Joseph Jarman - reeds recorded at Hot House, Chicago, IL 15.06.2000 -uploaded in HD at http://www.TunesToTube.com
published: 21 Jul 2015 -
Wadada Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell & Joseph Jarman - part 1
Wadada Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell & Joseph Jarman - part 1 Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Roscoe Mitchell - reeds Joseph Jarman - reeds recorded at Hot House, Chicago, IL 15.06.2000 -uploaded in HD at http://www.TunesToTube.com
published: 21 Jul 2015 -
Wadada Leo Smith & Günter "Baby" Sommer - Padua 2011
Wadada Leo Smith & Günter "Baby" Sommer - Padua 2011 Cinema Lux Padua, Italy 12.05.2011 Wadada Leo Smith,trumpet & flugelhorn Günter "Baby" Sommer,percussion 1. Imrovisation #1 2. Imrovisation #2 3. Imrovisation #3 4. Imrovisation #4 5. Imrovisation #5 6. Imrovisation #6 7. Imrovisation #7 -Video Upload powered by https://www.TunesToTube.com
published: 05 May 2017 -
Humanismo Justa / Trutmonda Muziko (Human Rights / World Music) - Wadada Leo Smith
"Human Rights" (vinyl, 1986)
published: 04 May 2013 -
Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet
Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith is a boldly original figure in American jazz and one of the great trumpet players of our time. Smith’s classic Golden Quartet line-up features legendary improvisers Anthony Davis, John Lindberg, and Pheeroan akLaff, and AllMusic calls it “jazz that is so fresh and well executed as to define and remind what’s great about listening to the music.”
published: 07 Jan 2016
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - at The Stone - Jan 25 2015
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 34:55
- Updated: 18 Dec 2015
- views: 5411
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Vijay Iyer - piano
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Vijay Iyer - piano
https://wn.com/Vijay_Iyer_Wadada_Leo_Smith_At_The_Stone_Jan_25_2015
Bishopsgate Duo Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith / John Tilbury (2014 aud)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 32:15
- Updated: 09 Jun 2017
- views: 51
from the CD, Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith / John Tilbury - Bishopsgate Concert...
- published: 09 Jun 2017
- views: 51
Wadada Leo Smith & Hamid Drake - Empty Bottle Chicago 2001
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:15:46
- Updated: 14 May 2017
- views: 130
Wadada Leo Smith & Hamid Drake - Empty Bottle Chicago 2001
Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Hamid Drake: drums
-Video Upload powered by https://www.TunesToTube.com
Wadada Leo Smith & Hamid Drake - Empty Bottle Chicago 2001
Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Hamid Drake: drums
-Video Upload powered by https://www.TunesToTube.com
https://wn.com/Wadada_Leo_Smith_Hamid_Drake_Empty_Bottle_Chicago_2001
Wadada Leo Smith & Hamid Drake - Empty Bottle Chicago 2001
Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Hamid Drake: drums
-Video Upload powered by https://www.TunesToTube.com
- published: 14 May 2017
- views: 130
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith at The Stone Jan 25 2015
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 55:50
- Updated: 03 Jan 2017
- views: 81
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano.
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano. Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano Reggie Workman - ba...
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano.
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano. Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano Reggie Workman - bass Nitin Mitta - tabla Patricia Brennan .
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano Reggie Workman - bass Nitin Mitta - tabla Patricia Brennan - vibraphone at The Stone, NYC - January 25 2015.
Due appassionati e appassionanti poeti e esploratori dei suoni e dell'improvvisazione: Vijay Iyer e Wadada Leo Smith spingono la musica improvvisata verso .
https://wn.com/Vijay_Iyer_Wadada_Leo_Smith_At_The_Stone_Jan_25_2015
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano.
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano. Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano Reggie Workman - bass Nitin Mitta - tabla Patricia Brennan .
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano Reggie Workman - bass Nitin Mitta - tabla Patricia Brennan - vibraphone at The Stone, NYC - January 25 2015.
Due appassionati e appassionanti poeti e esploratori dei suoni e dell'improvvisazione: Vijay Iyer e Wadada Leo Smith spingono la musica improvvisata verso .
- published: 03 Jan 2017
- views: 81
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith at The Stone Jan 25 2015
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 34:55
- Updated: 18 Nov 2016
- views: 29
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano.
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano. Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano Reggie Workman - ba...
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano.
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano. Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano Reggie Workman - bass Nitin Mitta - tabla Patricia Brennan .
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano Reggie Workman - bass Nitin Mitta - tabla Patricia Brennan - vibraphone at The Stone, NYC - January 25 2015.
Due appassionati e appassionanti poeti e esploratori dei suoni e dell'improvvisazione: Vijay Iyer e Wadada Leo Smith spingono la musica improvvisata verso .
https://wn.com/Vijay_Iyer_Wadada_Leo_Smith_At_The_Stone_Jan_25_2015
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano.
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano. Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano Reggie Workman - bass Nitin Mitta - tabla Patricia Brennan .
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano Reggie Workman - bass Nitin Mitta - tabla Patricia Brennan - vibraphone at The Stone, NYC - January 25 2015.
Due appassionati e appassionanti poeti e esploratori dei suoni e dell'improvvisazione: Vijay Iyer e Wadada Leo Smith spingono la musica improvvisata verso .
- published: 18 Nov 2016
- views: 29
Wadada Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell & Joseph Jarman - part 2
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- Duration: 48:06
- Updated: 21 Jul 2015
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Wadada Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell & Joseph Jarman - part 2
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Roscoe Mitchell - reeds
Joseph Jarman - reeds
recorded at Hot House, Chi...
Wadada Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell & Joseph Jarman - part 2
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Roscoe Mitchell - reeds
Joseph Jarman - reeds
recorded at Hot House, Chicago, IL
15.06.2000
-uploaded in HD at http://www.TunesToTube.com
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Wadada Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell & Joseph Jarman - part 2
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Roscoe Mitchell - reeds
Joseph Jarman - reeds
recorded at Hot House, Chicago, IL
15.06.2000
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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Wadada Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell & Joseph Jarman - part 1
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- Duration: 52:36
- Updated: 21 Jul 2015
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Wadada Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell & Joseph Jarman - part 1
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Roscoe Mitchell - reeds
Joseph Jarman - reeds
recorded at Hot House, Chi...
Wadada Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell & Joseph Jarman - part 1
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Roscoe Mitchell - reeds
Joseph Jarman - reeds
recorded at Hot House, Chicago, IL
15.06.2000
-uploaded in HD at http://www.TunesToTube.com
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Wadada Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell & Joseph Jarman - part 1
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Roscoe Mitchell - reeds
Joseph Jarman - reeds
recorded at Hot House, Chicago, IL
15.06.2000
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
- views: 294
Wadada Leo Smith & Günter "Baby" Sommer - Padua 2011
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- Duration: 1:05:36
- Updated: 05 May 2017
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Wadada Leo Smith & Günter "Baby" Sommer - Padua 2011
Cinema Lux
Padua, Italy
12.05.2011
Wadada Leo Smith,trumpet & flugelhorn
Günter "Baby" Sommer,perc...
Wadada Leo Smith & Günter "Baby" Sommer - Padua 2011
Cinema Lux
Padua, Italy
12.05.2011
Wadada Leo Smith,trumpet & flugelhorn
Günter "Baby" Sommer,percussion
1. Imrovisation #1
2. Imrovisation #2
3. Imrovisation #3
4. Imrovisation #4
5. Imrovisation #5
6. Imrovisation #6
7. Imrovisation #7
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Wadada Leo Smith & Günter "Baby" Sommer - Padua 2011
Cinema Lux
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12.05.2011
Wadada Leo Smith,trumpet & flugelhorn
Günter "Baby" Sommer,percussion
1. Imrovisation #1
2. Imrovisation #2
3. Imrovisation #3
4. Imrovisation #4
5. Imrovisation #5
6. Imrovisation #6
7. Imrovisation #7
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- published: 05 May 2017
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Humanismo Justa / Trutmonda Muziko (Human Rights / World Music) - Wadada Leo Smith
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- Duration: 30:24
- Updated: 04 May 2013
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"Human Rights" (vinyl, 1986)
"Human Rights" (vinyl, 1986)
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Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet
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- Duration: 56:49
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Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith is a boldly original figure in American jazz and one of the great trumpet play...
Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith is a boldly original figure in American jazz and one of the great trumpet players of our time. Smith’s classic Golden Quartet line-up features legendary improvisers Anthony Davis, John Lindberg, and Pheeroan akLaff, and AllMusic calls it “jazz that is so fresh and well executed as to define and remind what’s great about listening to the music.”
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Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith is a boldly original figure in American jazz and one of the great trumpet players of our time. Smith’s classic Golden Quartet line-up features legendary improvisers Anthony Davis, John Lindberg, and Pheeroan akLaff, and AllMusic calls it “jazz that is so fresh and well executed as to define and remind what’s great about listening to the music.”
- published: 07 Jan 2016
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12:13
Wadada Leo Smith - New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718 [Excerpt]
Wadada Leo Smith - "New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718" [Excerpt] from 'Ameri...
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Wadada Leo Smith - New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718 [Excerpt]
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Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet
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Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet
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Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith – A cosmic rhythm with each stroke (Album EPK)
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke
Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Vijay Iyer: piano, Fender Rhod...
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Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith – Passages
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith
a cosmic rhythm with each stroke
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Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith – Passages
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Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - at The Stone - Jan 25 2015
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Vijay Iyer - piano
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Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - at The Stone - Jan 25 2015
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Wadada Leo Smith - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Martin Luther King, Jr." by Wadada Leo Smith from the album 'Ten Freedom Summers' (Cuneif...
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Wadada Leo Smith - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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10:25
Helen Petts' film of Wadada Leo Smith, Louis Moholo, Steve Noble 1.
Filmed by Helen Petts at Freedom of the City festival, 2010, London. See also http://youtu...
published: 03 May 2010
Helen Petts' film of Wadada Leo Smith, Louis Moholo, Steve Noble 1.
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Wadada Leo Smith Vijay Iyer - A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
Due appassionati e appassionanti poeti e esploratori dei suoni e dell’improvvisazione: Vij...
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Wadada Leo Smith Vijay Iyer - A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
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10:14
Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith - Moja - Nne'
Tribute to Miles Davis. From the album "Yo Miles!" (Shanachie, 1998)
published: 10 Mar 2013
Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith - Moja - Nne'
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11:29
Wadada Leo Smith "Until the Fire"
Wadada Leo Smith- flugelhorn, trumpets, percussion.
Recorded 1976.
"Kabell Years 1971-1979...
published: 22 Apr 2015
Wadada Leo Smith "Until the Fire"
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Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet live at Jazzadlia in San Sebastián
Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet performs "Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 381...
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Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet live at Jazzadlia in San Sebastián
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Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet
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Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet
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Wadada Leo Smith - Live at The Stone
Celebratory: Ornette - Coltrane - Shannon
Live at The Stone, New York City
April 24, 2015
...
published: 25 Apr 2015
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20:14
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - - Pittsburgh Jazz Live 06-25-16
Pittsburgh Jazz Live on a beautiful summer day on Penn Avenue. Wonderful weather, great ...
published: 26 Jun 2016
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - - Pittsburgh Jazz Live 06-25-16
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - - Pittsburgh Jazz Live 06-25-16
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5:33
Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith – A cosmic rhythm with each stroke (Album EPK)
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke
Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Vijay Iyer: piano, Fender Rhod...
published: 10 Feb 2016
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12:13
Wadada Leo Smith - New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718 [Excerpt]
Wadada Leo Smith - "New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718" [Excerpt] from 'Ameri...
published: 16 Sep 2016
Wadada Leo Smith - New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718 [Excerpt]
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2:42
Wadada Leo Smith at Improv 21, San Francisco - Part 1: Performance
Wadada Leo Smith at Improv 21 - Part 1 of 4 "Performance"
San Francisco Library of the P...
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Wadada Leo Smith at Improv 21, San Francisco - Part 1: Performance
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10:17
Wadada Leo Smith and Jack DeJohnette - Ed Blackwell, The Blue Mountain Sun Drummer
New Project 6
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Wadada Leo Smith and Jack DeJohnette - Ed Blackwell, The Blue Mountain Sun Drummer
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17:36
Marion Brown & Wadada Leo Smith: Live 1970 Germany with Manfred Eicher (ECM)
December 1970, Club Laboratorium, Webergasse 22, Esslingen, Germany
Radio broadcast, Südde...
published: 27 Jun 2015
Marion Brown & Wadada Leo Smith: Live 1970 Germany with Manfred Eicher (ECM)
Marion Brown & Wadada Leo Smith: Live 1970 Germany with Manfred Eicher (ECM)
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Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet
Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet - Eclipse (2005, La Huit)
Wadada Leo Smith : trumpet
V...
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Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet
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Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet
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Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet
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34:55
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - at The Stone - Jan 25 2015
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Vijay Iyer - piano
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Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - at The Stone - Jan 25 2015
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Wadada Leo Smith Vijay Iyer - A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
Due appassionati e appassionanti poeti e esploratori dei suoni e dell’improvvisazione: Vij...
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Wadada Leo Smith Vijay Iyer - A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
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38:51
Leo Smith - Mass on the World
Leo Smith Trio,
Leo Smith - trumpet/flugelhorn/flute/bells/rattles
Dwight Andrews - saxoph...
published: 03 Jun 2014
Leo Smith - Mass on the World
Leo Smith - Mass on the World
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21:23
Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet - September 11th, 2001: A Memorial
Café Oto, London, 23 November 2013.
A part of the Ten Freedom Summers concerts at Café Oto...
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Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet - September 11th, 2001: A Memorial
Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet - September 11th, 2001: A Memorial
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42:16
Wadada Leo Smith, John Edwards, Mark Sanders @ Skaņu Mežs 2014
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www.skanumezs.lv
Skaņu Mežs is a music festival which has as its ...
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Wadada Leo Smith, John Edwards, Mark Sanders @ Skaņu Mežs 2014
Wadada Leo Smith, John Edwards, Mark Sanders @ Skaņu Mežs 2014
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30:24
Humanismo Justa / Trutmonda Muziko (Human Rights / World Music) - Wadada Leo Smith
"Human Rights" (vinyl, 1986)
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Humanismo Justa / Trutmonda Muziko (Human Rights / World Music) - Wadada Leo Smith
Humanismo Justa / Trutmonda Muziko (Human Rights / World Music) - Wadada Leo Smith
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48:43
WADADA LEO SMITH & LOUIS MOHOLO MOHOLO
Это видео создано с помощью видеоредактора YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/editor)
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WADADA LEO SMITH & LOUIS MOHOLO MOHOLO
WADADA LEO SMITH & LOUIS MOHOLO MOHOLO
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1:15:46
Wadada Leo Smith & Hamid Drake - Empty Bottle Chicago 2001
Wadada Leo Smith & Hamid Drake - Empty Bottle Chicago 2001
Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Hami...
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Wadada Leo Smith & Hamid Drake - Empty Bottle Chicago 2001
Wadada Leo Smith & Hamid Drake - Empty Bottle Chicago 2001
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1:27:22
Wadada Leo Smith with the New World Music Ensemble, Feb. 16, 1991
A performance by the New World Music Ensemble of Florida State University, featuring guest...
published: 29 Jun 2017
Wadada Leo Smith with the New World Music Ensemble, Feb. 16, 1991
Wadada Leo Smith with the New World Music Ensemble, Feb. 16, 1991
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Wadada Leo Smith at the Library of Congress
Trumpeter, composer and bandleader Wadada Leo Smith interviewed by Larry Appelbaum in a pr...
published: 10 Oct 2011
Wadada Leo Smith at the Library of Congress
Wadada Leo Smith at the Library of Congress
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Under_Line Salon: Wadada Leo Smith Discusses 'Ten Freedom Summers'
Under_Line Salon 4.19.15
In Performance & Conversation with Wadada Leo Smith
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Under_Line Salon: Wadada Leo Smith Discusses 'Ten Freedom Summers'
Under_Line Salon: Wadada Leo Smith Discusses 'Ten Freedom Summers'
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49:49
Podcast Epsiode 1: Wadada Leo Smith Interview
This is an interview I did with the hugely important free and avant garde jazz trumpet pla...
published: 26 May 2016
Podcast Epsiode 1: Wadada Leo Smith Interview
Podcast Epsiode 1: Wadada Leo Smith Interview
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Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith – A cosmic rhythm with each stroke (Album EPK)
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke
Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Vijay Iyer: piano, Fender Rhod...
published: 10 Feb 2016
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6:49
Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers - Interview with Jesse Gilbert, Video Artist
Short interview with Jesse Gilbert, video artist for Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summer...
published: 15 Nov 2013
Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers - Interview with Jesse Gilbert, Video Artist
Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers - Interview with Jesse Gilbert, Video Artist
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Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet
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Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet
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12:13
Wadada Leo Smith - New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718 [Excerpt]
Wadada Leo Smith - "New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718" [Excerpt] from 'Ameri...
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Wadada Leo Smith - New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718 [Excerpt]
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36:43
A Neon Jazz Interview with Legendary Jazz Multi-Instrumentalist Wadada Leo Smith
Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Legendary Jazz Trumpeter, ...
published: 15 Sep 2015
A Neon Jazz Interview with Legendary Jazz Multi-Instrumentalist Wadada Leo Smith
A Neon Jazz Interview with Legendary Jazz Multi-Instrumentalist Wadada Leo Smith
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2:42
Wadada Leo Smith at Improv 21, San Francisco - Part 1: Performance
Wadada Leo Smith at Improv 21 - Part 1 of 4 "Performance"
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Wadada Leo Smith at Improv 21, San Francisco - Part 1: Performance
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Wadada Leo Smith: Decoding Ankhrasmation
What unifies all of Wadada Leo Smith's projects is what also makes them so different from ...
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Wadada Leo Smith: Decoding Ankhrasmation
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Wadada Leo Smith - New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718 [Excerpt]
Wadada Leo Smith - "New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718" [Excerpt] from 'Ameri...
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Wadada Leo Smith - New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718 [Excerpt]
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Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet
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Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet
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Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith – A cosmic rhythm with each stroke (Album EPK)
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Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Vijay Iyer: piano, Fender Rhod...
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Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith – Passages
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith
a cosmic rhythm with each stroke
Vijay Iyer: Piano, Fender ...
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Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith – Passages
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Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - at The Stone - Jan 25 2015
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Vijay Iyer - piano
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Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - at The Stone - Jan 25 2015
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Wadada Leo Smith - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Martin Luther King, Jr." by Wadada Leo Smith from the album 'Ten Freedom Summers' (Cuneif...
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10:25
Helen Petts' film of Wadada Leo Smith, Louis Moholo, Steve Noble 1.
Filmed by Helen Petts at Freedom of the City festival, 2010, London. See also http://youtu...
published: 03 May 2010
Helen Petts' film of Wadada Leo Smith, Louis Moholo, Steve Noble 1.
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Wadada Leo Smith Vijay Iyer - A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
Due appassionati e appassionanti poeti e esploratori dei suoni e dell’improvvisazione: Vij...
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Wadada Leo Smith Vijay Iyer - A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
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10:14
Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith - Moja - Nne'
Tribute to Miles Davis. From the album "Yo Miles!" (Shanachie, 1998)
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Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith - Moja - Nne'
Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith - Moja - Nne'
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11:29
Wadada Leo Smith "Until the Fire"
Wadada Leo Smith- flugelhorn, trumpets, percussion.
Recorded 1976.
"Kabell Years 1971-1979...
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Wadada Leo Smith "Until the Fire"
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Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - at The Stone - Jan 25 2015
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Vijay Iyer - piano
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Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - at The Stone - Jan 25 2015
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32:15
Bishopsgate Duo Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith / John Tilbury (2014 aud)
from the CD, Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith / John Tilbury - Bishopsgate Concert...
published: 09 Jun 2017
Bishopsgate Duo Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith / John Tilbury (2014 aud)
Bishopsgate Duo Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith / John Tilbury (2014 aud)
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1:15:46
Wadada Leo Smith & Hamid Drake - Empty Bottle Chicago 2001
Wadada Leo Smith & Hamid Drake - Empty Bottle Chicago 2001
Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Hami...
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Wadada Leo Smith & Hamid Drake - Empty Bottle Chicago 2001
Wadada Leo Smith & Hamid Drake - Empty Bottle Chicago 2001
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55:50
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith at The Stone Jan 25 2015
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano.
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - pi...
published: 03 Jan 2017
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith at The Stone Jan 25 2015
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith at The Stone Jan 25 2015
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Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith at The Stone Jan 25 2015
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - piano.
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Vijay Iyer - pi...
published: 18 Nov 2016
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith at The Stone Jan 25 2015
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith at The Stone Jan 25 2015
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48:06
Wadada Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell & Joseph Jarman - part 2
Wadada Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell & Joseph Jarman - part 2
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
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Ice block the size of Delaware about to break away from Antarctica as global temperatures rise, scientists warn
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Forty-Four States Refuse To Turn Over Voter Data For Trump Commission
Edit WorldNews.com 04 Jul 2017
The list of states that have refused to provide voter information to the Trump administration's election integrity commission reached 44 states on Tuesday, according to CNN. CNN performed an inquiry of all 50 states that revealed many state leaders and voting boards rejected portions of the request for the information ... What are they trying to hide?" ... "The purpose of the commission is to find facts and put them on the table ... ... "Given Sec....
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U.S. Requests U.N. Security Council Meeting In Response To North Korean ICBM Launch
Edit WorldNews.com 04 Jul 2017
The United States on Tuesday requested a closed-door meeting of the 15-member U.N. Security Council on North Korea’s latest missile launch, which weapons experts said was an actual international ballistic missile (ICBM), Reuters reports.A session is likely to be scheduled for Wednesday, a spokesman for the U.S. mission to the United Nations said on Tuesday.Monday’s launch, on the eve of U.S ... ....
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Pentagon vows to protect US & allies after Pyongyang’s ‘escalatory ICBM test’
Edit Russia Today 05 Jul 2017
The Pentagon has vowed to defend the US and its allies against any possible North Korean threat after Washington confirmed Pyongyang’s claim that it has developed the technology to potentially deliver a nuclear warhead to the US mainland ... ....
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Russian Organized Crime Could Play Major Role in Mueller Investigation
Edit WorldNews.com 04 Jul 2017
The concerns that Russian organized crime could play a role in threatening democratic institutions in the United States have never been clearer and the ongoing special counsel investigation into possible collusion between the Russian government and "criminally linked oligarchs" could put things even more into focus, according to The Associated Press ... Russia is also known for a lack of cooperation with the U.S ... 11 attacks....
Steelers receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster working to stand out at training camp
Edit Pittsburgh Tribune Review 05 Jul 2017
Steelers receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster works out during rookie camp Saturday, May 13, 2017, at the UPMC Rooney Sports Complex on the South Side." ... On days during organized team activities when the Steelers brought the Juggs machine to the practice field, rookie wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster made sure he ......
Smith, Culver spur Scranton/WB to 7-0 win over Buffalo
Edit Atlantic City 05 Jul 2017
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) -- Cito Culver had two hits and two RBI, and Caleb Smith allowed just two hits over five innings as the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders defeated the Buffalo Bisons 7-0 on Tuesday ... ....
Hearts’ Ashley Smith-Brown inspired by Patrick Roberts
Edit Scotsman 05 Jul 2017
Hearts’ new signing Ashley Smith-Brown hopes he can replicate the success of the former Celtic loan player Patrick Roberts after watching his Manchester City team-mate become a hero at Parkhead ... Those stunning performances came as no surprise to Smith-Brown, who – as well as being a City colleague – played alongside the waspish winger in the England youth ranks, regularly going directly up against him in training sessions....
Beckham, O'Neill and Smith lead Tacoma in win
Edit Reflector 05 Jul 2017
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Gordon Beckham had four hits, while Tyler O’Neill and Tyler Smith recorded three apiece as the Tacoma Rainiers topped the Reno Aces 12-4 on Tuesday. Beckham singled four times, scoring two runs. O’Neill homered twice and singled, scoring three runs while also driving in three....
Jay-Z, Will Smith, more discuss racism in new 'The Story of O.J.' clip
Edit The Times of India 05 Jul 2017
Jordan, Van Jones, Kendrick Lamar, Trevor Noah, Chris Rock and Will Smith ... of pressure on you at all times, you know? ... O.J ... It's so real ... In the film, Smith says, "I knew really young that if I thought of myself as somehow less than somebody else I was going to build a life that was less," while Rock tells a harrowing story about how as a young girl living in South Carolina, his mother was forced to go to a vet for dental treatment ... 3000....
Smith, Pitching Rule Over Vermont
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Anchor House expected to open in September
Edit Reflector 05 Jul 2017
Construction of The Anchor House was completed in 2016 but flooding from Hurricane Matthew caused serious damage to the facility before it could open, according to Chris and Anna Smith, founders of Restore One, the Greenville-based nonprofit that will operate the home. With repairs nearly complete, Restore One is working to hire staff and raise money to fund the first year of operations, the Smiths said recently....
Morrissey's Childhood Friend Slams Biopic 'England Is Mine'
Edit The Hollywood Reporter 05 Jul 2017
James Maker, who grew up and played with the Smiths frontman, called the film "historical fiction." ... As Morrissey-solo.com points out, the Smiths singer’s close childhood friend James Maker -- who performed at some early Smiths gigs in a role similar to Bez from the Happy Mondays and who later started his own projects Raymonde and RPLA -- has shared some scathing words about the film....
Destiny 2 Director Teases A Raid That Is Unlike All The Past Ones
Edit Gamespot 05 Jul 2017
Destiny 2 game director Luke Smith has teased the upcoming shooter's first raid. Raid 5, as it's known only right now, will be set in a place that players "believe is real," Smith said in a new interview with Mashable ... In other Destiny 2 news, Smith wrote on Twitter recently that he is very excited to be playing a new build of the shooter at home....
Baltimore police spokesman's brother is city's 173rd homicide victim
Edit Baltimore Sun 05 Jul 2017
Baltimore Police Department spokesman T.J. Smith's younger brother is among the most recent victims of the city's escalating homicide rate. Dionay Smith, 24, was found fatally shot at around 8 p.m. Sunday in his home in the 1400 block of Argyle Ave., Baltimore Police Lt. Jeremy Silbert said. He... ....
Cops get complaint about slip-and-slide, end up going on it
Edit CNN 05 Jul 2017
The police showed up ... They took a ride themselves. Resident Katlen Joyce Smith said one of the local dads decided to build a slip-and-slide for the neighborhood kids to enjoy during the annual block party ... "When the police came, they quickly realized that wasn't the case and asked if they could take a turn," Smith said. Read More ... "I still can't handle the amazing-mess of it all," Smith wrote in a Facebook post ... ....
Young Man Killed In City Shooting, Brother Of Baltimore Police Spokesman
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