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Wadada Leo Smith

Album Review: Deerhoof and Wadada Leo Smith — Electrical Soul Music

That this assemblage works so well is a tribute to the big ears and hearts — and collective intelligence — of all the players here.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Breathing, Curious, Deerhoof, Laughing Flesh is Enough, Satomi Matsuzaki, To Be Surrounded by Beautiful, Wadada Leo Smith

Jazz CD Review: Wadada Leo Smith’s “Rosa Parks: Pure Love” — Making History Present

Rosa Parks: Pure Love is a serious, substantial, and long work, alternately harsh and calming, one that I am sure should be seen as well as heard.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Michael Ullman, Rosa Parks: Pure Love, Wadada Leo Smith

Jazz CD Reviews: Wadada Leo Smith — Paying Superb Homage to Monk, and Other Heroes

That’s why Wadada Leo Smith’s musical visions are so miraculous: there’s an impression of drift, yet they rarely meander.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Najwa, Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk, Tum Records, Wadada Leo Smith

Jazz CD Round-up: Jane Ira Bloom, Robert Glasper, Wadada Leo Smith, Anna Webber, and More

Over a dozen short notices of recent jazz recordings that I find musically stimulating.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: America’s National Parks, Anna Webber, Basically Baker Volume Two: The Big Band Music of David Baker, Binary, Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra, Darrell Katz, Early Americans, Flux, Frank Kimbrough, Jack DeJohnette In Movement, Jailhouse Doc With Holes in Her Socks, Jane Ira Bloom, Ken Schaphorst How to Say Goodbye, Kenny Garrett Do Your Dance!, Mockroot, Quinsin Nachoff, Renee Rosnes, Richie Cole Plays Ballads and Love Songs, Robert Glasper ArtScience, Solstice, Tigran Hamasyan, Wadada Leo Smith, Written in the Rocks

Jazz CD Review: Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith — Exploring Cosmic Possibilities in Sound

Pianist Vijay Iyer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith produce music that is precise and quietly evocative, peaceful and gently probing.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke, ECM, Fromm Concerts, harvard-university, Nasreen Mohamedi, Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith

Fuse Album Review: Fresh Improvisational Sounds from Finland’s TUM Records

According to its web site, TUM operates mainly thanks to volunteers. We should be grateful.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review, Uncategorized Tagged: Celestial Weather, improvisational music, Iro Haarla, John Lindberg, Juhani Aaltonen, Kirkastus, TUM, Wadada Leo Smith

Book Review: “Outside Music, Inside Voices” — Illuminating Conversations about Creating Jazz

Jazz fans with open ears should rush to this book: so should anyone interested in the creative process, its rewards as well as its challenges.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: avant-garde jazz, Baikida Carroll, free jazz, Garrison Fewell, Henry Threadgill, Marilyn Crispell, Milford Graves, Oliver Lake, Outside Music Inside Voices, Wadada Leo Smith

Album Review: Wadada Leo Smith’s “The Great Lakes Suites” — A Miraculous Freedom

Wadada Leo Smith’s latest album features a series of miraculous performances that give a new meaning to freedom: the sometimes lengthy and airily open improvisations take us on journeys but never seem to wander.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Henry Threadgill, Jack DeJohnette, John Lindberg, Ten Freedom Summers, The Great Lakes Suites, Wadada Leo Smith

Jazz CD Review: “Occupy The World” — Creatively Complicated Orchestral Music

Over five extended compositions, composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith leads a new large ensemble, TUMO, creating a challenging but engaging world of sound that combines composed elements with strong soloists and group improvisation.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Michael Ullman, Occupy the World, Ten Freedom Summers, Wadada Leo Smith

Jazz News: Thoughts on Wadada Leo Smith’s “Ten Freedom Summers” — Pulitzer Finalist in Composition

Ten Freedom Summers is a masterful, supple series of compositions that has the gravitas of a major work that also, from time to time, it swings dramatically.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Fuse News, Jazz, Music Tagged: Pulitzer Prize, Ten Freedom Summers, Wadada Leo Smith

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