Wadada Leo Smith - Rosa Parks: Pure Love - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Cix - Thunder Fever - Keyring Album - Random Cover - incl. Ball Chain, Photocard + QR Card [DISCLESS DIGITAL] Photos, Asia - Import date 01/31/2025

Album Tracks 1. Garden of the Heart 2. Perfect Essence 3. Radiant Light Gushing from the Sun 4. Night Splendor, a Certain Moon Flow 5. Tango 6. Beauty 7. Fountain (Immortality) 8. Garden of the Soul 9. Apples, Dates and Pomegranates 10. Light, Ginger, Olives and Musk 11. Harp A Gleaming Sama 12. Fountain (Lore) 13. Camphor 14. Caravans of Winter and Summer 15. The Traveler 16. The Traveler

(2-CD set) Occupy the World features the legendary composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith together with Tumo, a new improvising orchestra that is assembled specifically for each project, in it's first appearance. The 22-piece orchestra performs five extended compositions by Smith, including InchOccupy the World for Life, Liberty and JusticeInch, his most extensive recorded composition to date, that was originally inspired by the Occupy movement. The four other compositions included on this double-CD were also recorded here for the first time. TUMO is made up of leading improvisers in Finland and the Nordic region, many of whom have recorded for Tum Records with various groups before. In addition to the principal soloists, Wadada Leo Smith on four compositions and bassist John Lindberg on one, featured are trumpeter Verneri Pohjola, trombonist Jari Hongisto, saxophonists Mikko Innanen and Fredrik Ljungkvist, flutist Juhani Aaltonen, pianist Seppo Kantonen, harpist Iro Haarla, accordionist Veli Kujala, guitarists Kalle Kalima and Mikko Iivanainen as well as drummers Mika Kallio, Stefan Pasborg and Janne Tuomi, among others. Album Tracks 1. Queen Hatshepsut 2. The Bell, Pt. 2 3. Mount Kilimanjaro (Love and Compassion for John Lindberg) 4. Crossing on a Southern Road (A Memorial for Marion Brown) 5. Occupy the World for Life, Liberty and Justice