Wadada Leo Smith - Occupy the World - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

(3-CD set) Trumpet is a unique three-CD boxed set of solo trumpet music recorded over one week in the beautiful natural acoustics of St. Mary's Church, the medieval stone church in the Town of Pohja on the Southern Coast of Finland. All compositions are by Wadada Leo Smith. Trumpet represents a culmination of Smith's recorded solo trumpet work that has comprised a total of six albums before Trumpet, starting with his very first album as a leader, Creative Music - 1 Six Solo Improvisations, in 1971 and ending with his dedication to Thelonious Monk, Solo Reflections and Meditations on Monk, in 2015. Album Tracks 1. Albert Ayler 2. Rashomon 3. Howard and Miles - a Photographic Image 4. Metallic Rainbow (For Steve McCall) 5. Sauna - a Healthy Journey (For Petri) 6. Malik Al-Shabazz and the People of the Shahada 7. The Great Litany 8. Leroy Jenkins Violin Expressions 9. James Baldwin - No Name in the Street; War 10. Amina Claudine Myers 11. Sonic Night - Night Colors (For Reggie Workman) 12. Discourses on the Sufi Path - a Remembrance of Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh 13. Family - a Contemplation of Love 14. Trumpet

(5-CD set) The Emerald Duets is a crowning achievement among Wadada Leo Smith's many recorded duo collaborations with drummers/percussionists that have previously featured such creative giants as Ed Blackwell, Jack DeJohnette, Milford Graves (TUM BOX 003), Louis Moholo-Moholo (TUM CD 029) and Gnter Sommer, among others. The Emerald Duets features four master drummers who have each, in their own unique fashion, contributed to the way modern drumming has developed in the past six decades and how it is now perceived. Pheeroan akLaff, Andrew Cyrille and Han Bennink are each featured on one disc and Jack DeJohnette on two discs, including Smith's five-part composition InchParadise The Gardens and FountainsInch that fills the fifth disc of this boxed set in it's entirety. The sessions with akLaff, Cyrille and DeJohnette mostly feature compositions by Wadada Leo Smith, including three very different versions of Smith's powerful statement for the protection of freedom and democracy, InchThe Patriot Act, Unconstitutional and a Force that Destroys Democracy.Inch The session with Bennink includes a combination of Smith's compositions and collectively created tracks. Album Tracks 1. Litanies, Prayers and Meditations 2. The Prayer (For Keith Jarrett) 3. First Meditation from the Heart The Beauty, the Beloved 4. The Uyghur in Xinjiang, China 5. A Sonic Expression (Wadada Leo Smith) 6. Part 1 7. Part 2 8. Part 3 9. Part 4 10. A Sonic Litany on Peace 11. The Patriot Act, Unconstitutional and a Force That Destroys Democracy 12. A Sonic Litany on Justice 13. Second Meditation from the Heart The Beloved, the Beauty 14. Havana, Cuba 15. The Patriot Act, Unconstitutional and a Force That Destroys Democracy 16. Havana, the Maghrib Prayer and Reflections 17. Ilhan Omar 18. Mongezi Feza 19. Jeanne Lee In a Jupiter Mood 20. Donald Ayler The Ma

Wadada Leo Smith's latest album features InchRosa Parks Pure Love. An Oratorio of Seven Songs,Inch another extended composition by Smith inspired by the civil rights movement in the United States. This new major work is composed for the iconic civil rights hero Rosa Parks (1913-2005) and performed by three vocalists, a double-quartet and a drummer with electronics. The album is released in February 2019 to celebrate Rosa Parks' birthday on February 4. Album Tracks 1. Prelude Journey 2. Vision Dance 1 Resistance and Unity 3. Rosa Parks Mercy, Music for Double Quartet 4. Song 1 The Montgomery Bus Boycott - 381 Days of Fire 5. Song 2 The First Light, Gold 6. Vision Dance 2 Defiance, Justice and Liberation 7. Song 3 Change It! 8. Song 4 The Truth 9. Song 5 No Fear 10. Vision Dance 3 Rosa's Blue Lake 1 11. Song 6 The Second Light 2 12. Vision Dance 4 A Blue Casa 13. Song 7 Pure Love 14. The Known World Apartheid 15. Postlude Victory!