Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet

Wadada Leo Smith





Download What is Democracy?, performed by his Golden Quartet and the Ligeti String Quartet over three nights at Café Oto in November 2013, as part of the London jazz festival @ inConstantSol

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Wadada Leo Smith & Organic - Live in Milan '11

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"Organic was organized to present an electric music idiom that utilized the same performance principles that Wadada’s other ensembles use. This means that the ensemble’s use of languages and systems are fundamental to the conception of making music. The instrumentation consists primarily of electric strings (4 guitars, cello, 2 basses), but what is truly different with Organic’s music is its ability to establish a polycentric / polytonal and multi-layered grid where each performer has the right and responsibility to creatively organize the ensemble’s musical space and ideas as it moves across the performance dimension. The value placed on electronics is communal in character and has a philosophy centered in the art of sound making, and is not noise based.
Organic’s music is powerfully electric and electronic in nature; fiery and interactive in character; contemporary, spiritual and politically conscious, its creative energy is heartfelt and connected with the human feeling."

Only European date.

Pictures by Roberto Cifarelli.

Rec. live at "Teatro Manzoni", Milan, Italy, on March 27, 2011
(mics recording)

Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith,trumpet,conductor
Michael Gregory/Josh Gerowitz/Brandon Ross/
Lamar Smith,guitars
Okkyung Lee,cello
Skuli Sverrisson,electric bass
John Lindberg,bass
Pheeroan AkLaff,drums

1. Track #1 (40:00)
2. Track #2 (1:04:59)

LISTEN … excerpt from track #1

Masayuki Takayanagi & Masahiko Togashi • "PULSATION" (PADDLE WHEEL, 1983)

Masayuki Takayanagi: guitar
Masahiko Togashi: drums, percussion, (composition)

1. Inner pulsation (TOGASHI) 21:12
2. Outer pulsation (TOGASHI) 21:19


May 27, 1983 : Live at Zojoji Hall, Tokyo

Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet - Live in Saalfelden '10

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One of the most indispensable ensembles in contemporary jazz."
Great stuff!

The picture above is by Claudio Casonovo.

Rec. live at "The Saalfelden Jazz Festival", Saalfelden, Austria,
on August 29, 2010 (radio broadcast)

Taylor Ho Bynum,cornet
Bill Lowe,trombone
Jim Hobbs,alto sax
Mary Halvorson,guitar
Ken Filiano,bass
Tomas Fujiwara,drums

1. Apparent Distance (45:34)
2. A Blues (17:31)

Total Time 1:03:06

LISTEN … The beginning of the Blues

Pauline Oliveros • Wadada Leo Smith • Roscoe Mitchell • John Tilbury ••• "LIVE AT ANGELICA, 2011"

Too GOOD to be true!!!

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Pauline Oliveros, accordion and electronics
Roscoe Mitchell, saxophones, flutes
John Tilbury, piano
Wadada Leo Smith, trumpet

• Live FM radio broadcast from Teatro San Leonardo, Bologna (ITALY)