ISHMAEL WADADA LEO SMITH trumpet-player, multi- instrumentalist, composer and improviser has been active in the creative contemporary world music for over thirty years. His theory of Jazz and World ...

Wadada Leo Smith (left) and Vijay Iyer have known and collaborated with each other for decades. They have just released their second album as a duo, Defiant Life, with Smith on trumpet and Iyer on ...

Pianist and composer Vijay Iyer has announced a new album with trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Out March 21, via ECM, Defiant Life is the artists’ second collaborative record, following 2016’s A ...

CD1: Don Cherry's Electric Sonic Garden; Heart's Reflections: Splendors of Light and Purification (for Shaykh Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili): The Dhikr of Radiant Hearts, Part I; The Dihkr of Radiant ...

Prelude: Journey; Vision Dance 1: Resistance and Unity; Rosa Parks: Mercy, Music for Double Quartet; Song 1: The Montgomery Bus Boycott - 381 Days of Fire; Song 2: The First Light, Gold; Vision Dance ...

Iyer has been working with Smith on and off for two decades — their previous collaboration, A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke, was released in 2016 — and though two pieces are preconceived and four are ...

Movement 4: Jupiter Skies: Kelan Phil Cochran and the Chicago Kulture. Movement 5: Scented Yellow and Red Chrysanthemums; Wadada Leo Smith: The Bell In Silence Resonants and Ten Freedom Summers. Disc ...

Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet; Henry Kaiser, Mike Keneally, Chris Muir: electric guitars; Michael Manring: bass; Steve Smith: drums; Karl Perazzo: percussion; Greg Osby ...

The live spark and open surrender of musical dialogue has long been a founding principle for trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and pianist Vijay Iyer. Each is a justly heralded composer who often strikes ...

Stewart Smith heads down to Café Oto to see jazz trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith perform last year's Ten Freedom Summers as part of the 2013 EFG London Jazz Festival If you’ve read something ...