#wadada-leo-smith — Public Fediverse posts

Given how many icons of free improvisation jazz they've both played with, it's inexplicable how "Duologues 5" is the first collaboration between sax master Ivo Perelman and master trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Here's my review of this duets collection.
https://paulsemel.com/ivo-perelman-wadada-leo-smith-duologues-5-review/
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#IvoPerelman #WadadaLeoSmith #IvoPerelmanWadadaLeoSmithDuologues5Review #IvoPerelmanWadadaLeoSmithDuologues5 #IvoPerelmanDuologues5 #WadadaLeoSmithDuologues5 #Jazz #FreeJazz

Copertine belle: Sylvie Courvoisier & Wadada Leo Smith – Angel Falls [Intakt, 2025]

Cover and Booklet Art: Sophie Bouvier Ausländer.

Il disco è una specie di botta e risposta tra il piano di Courvoisier e la tromba di Smith. Mi rendo conto che detta così non è una cosa molto attraente, ma me sta piacendo (contro tutte le previsioni, tra l’altro). Su bandcamp c’è solo il primo pezzo, sul tubo nulla, ma sono sicuro che da qualche parte lo troverete.

#albumCovers #AngelFalls #copertineBelle #SophieBouvierAusländer #SylvieCourvoisier #WadadaLeoSmith

Recensie: Wadada Leo Smith, Marcus Gilmore & Jakob Bro – Murasaki ★★★★½
https://writteninmusic.com/albumrecensie/wadada-leo-smith-marcus-gilmore-jakob-bro-murasaki/

#Music #Jazz #WadadaLeoSmith,MarcusGilmore&JakobBro #LovelandMusic

Concert: Moers Festival 2025 (2) Iyer en Smith klasse apart!
https://writteninmusic.com/concertverslag/moers-festival-2025-2-iyer-en-smith-klasse-apart/

#Music #Jazz #WadadaLeoSmith #VijayIyer #EnniHalle #MoersFestival

#NowPlaying
Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith
Defiant Life

Absolutely amazing. Intriguing musical quests.

#music #cd #vijayIyer #wadadaleosmith #cd

A visit to Concerto, the local recordstore in Amsterdam.

#music #cd #michaelmoore #nelscline #BranfordMarsalis #brandfordmarsalisquartet #VijayIyer #wadadaleosmith #recordstore #amsterdam #concerto

#WadadaLeoSmith #trompeta
#VijayIyer #piano #FenderRhodes #electrónica

#DefiantLife
#ECMRecords #ECM #EditionOfContemporaryMusic 2025

Estos músicos fabulosos, en un sello discográfico históricamente maravilloso.
Hace falta más? Abrir alma, corazón, y oídos!!!

https://ecmrecords.com/product/defiant-life-vijay-iyer-wadada-leo-smith/

#música #jazz #nuevamúsica #nuevodisco

Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - Defiant Life (2025)

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mQ8UVVExpPzvHYd3sgyParW7h9CsRZDgo

#music #jazz #avantgarde #avantgardejazz #contemporaryjazz #vijayiyer #wadadaleosmith #ecmrecords

New #review today: "Now, with his own credentials firmly established, #JoeFonda pays homage to #WadadaLeoSmith and others on Eyes on the Horizon, a set of seven compositions recorded with a quartet that features Fonda and Smith along with #SatokoFujii on piano and #TizianoTononi on drums." #ExposeOnline #jazz http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/joe-fonda-quartet-eyes-on-the-horizon-2.html

Pulitzer Price for Music 2024
Tyshawn Sorey - Adagio for Wadada Leo Smith

Very intriguing, dark, explorative. Beautiful.

https://m.soundcloud.com/tyshawn-sorey/adagio-for-wadada-leo-smith

#music #pulitzer #prize #tyshawnsorey #wadadaleosmith #composition

The absolute highlight of three days #northseajazzfestival: Sylvie Courvoisier #Chimaera. So many amazing musicians on stage. Hypnotic, energetic, contemplative, adventurous avant-garde music. Breathtaking, no less.

#SylvieCourvoisier #wadadaleosmith #natewooley #drewgress #kennywolleson #nasheetwaits #music #festival #rotterdam #christianfennesz

Convos w/ Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers. ‘Central Park’s Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens’ out 5/10 on Red Hook Records.

#wadadaleosmith #aminaclaudinemyers #centralpark #music #aacm #creativemusic #jazz

https://postgenre.org/tranquility-wadada-leo-smith-amina-claudine-myers/

Now playing:
The Chicago Symphony - Diamond Symphony
Wadada Leo Smith / Henry Threadgill / Jack DeJohnette / John Lindberg

https://open.spotify.com/album/7pDgtmk3gbHIl27g5cqEFo?si=gh-qXlO8QkeYc2TYD1zfXA

Good morning!

#Music #jazz #wadadaleosmith #threadgill #Chicago

Some of my favorite 2023 releases (part 2):
#ÁngelOntalva - A Haunted, Hidden World of Caves
#PoiLUeda - PoiL Ueda
PoiL Ueda - Yoshitsune
#JocelynPook - Jungle Book Reimagined
#ProudPeasant - Communion
#ArnaudQuevedo & Friends (AQ&F) - 2nd Life
#RascalReporters - The Strainge Case of Steve
#BrandonSeabrook / Epic Proportions - brutalovechamp
#SevenImpale - Summit
#SingerMali (Sastri) - Lodestone
#WadadaLeoSmith - Fire Illuminations
#SoftMachine - Other Doors
#StickMen - Umeda
#StrangerStill - The Songs Which Are
#Terms - All Becomes Indistinct
#ThirteenOfEverything - Time and Other Delusions
#Tryon - Freaky Squash Baby
#Ultraphauna - No No No No

New #review today: "After many years of hearing large-scale works involving orchestras, string quartets, and the like from #WadadaLeoSmith, I sometimes forget that I first really became aware of his music with the Yo Miles! project which was inspired by the electric period of Miles Davis. That was more than 20 years ago, and Smith has been incredibly prolific since then, but with Fire Illuminations, he touches on similar territory." #ExposeOnline #jazz http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/wadada-leo-smith-fire-illuminations-2.html

#NowPlaying: #WadadaLeoSmith - Fire Illuminations. Great funky #jazz in the #BitchesBrew tradition https://wadadaleosmith1.bandcamp.com/album/fire-illuminations

"Wadada Leo Smith is among the most prolific composers of string quartets in the modern era, the only Black composer to have written so many, and one of the most adventurous writers of quartets in terms of his notation system and the distinctiveness of his musical language."

https://artsfuse.org/267772/music-perspective-the-context-of-wadada-leo-smiths-12-string-quartets/

#jazz #wadadaleosmith

Happy Birthday Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith!

A great humanist, a blazing light.

One of my favourites of him:

https://www.deezer.com/en/album/234246232

#jazz #FreeImprovisation #FreeJazz #OTD @jazz #WadadaLeoSmith #deezer

"...the function of music is to transform that (observer’s) life in just an instant, so that when they go back to the routine part of living, they carry with them a little bit of something else."

--Wadada Leo Smith (quoted by Vijay Iyer, liner notes, "Far from Over" (2013))

#WadadaLeoSmith #music #transform #living #SomethingElse #VijayIyer #jazz