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	Bill Smith: - Wadada Leo Smith, Kabell Years 1971-1979
		Leo achieves this with a system that deals with the music in a continuous and dramatic way, utilizing quite liberally many elements of theatre, theatre that comes about by certain location placements of the multitudes of instruments that he plays.
		Leo Smith, like many of the Chicago school (?) is a virtuoso musician, and a composer and arranger of startling magnitude.
		The strength of this group music is accomplished by the interchanged information indicated in the scores, the various tempos and dynamics, and the abilities of the trio to interpret the intentions through close listening.
	vancouverjazz.com /billsmith/15.shtml (924 words)

	Nameless Sound - Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet
		Smith was born in Leland, Mississippi, where he was raised in the heart of African American musical cultures, including the Delta blues and the African American concert and marching band traditions.
		Smith’s study of contemporary European concert music is balanced by his immersion in world music forms, including African, Japanese, and Indonesian traditions.
		Wadada Leo Smith is currently the Director of the MFA program in African American Improvisation at the California Institute for the Arts.
	www.namelesssound.org /events/wadadaleosmithquartet.html (336 words)

	Wadada Leo Smith - Biography - AOL Music
		Smith, who was involved in making the documentary film See the Music in 1970, formed the New Dalta Ahkri in New Haven, CT, an influential if under-documented band that at times included Henry Threadgill, Anthony Davis, and Oliver Lake.
		Smith studied ethnomusicology in the mid-'70s at Wesleyan, played with Braxton in 1976, and recorded with Derek Bailey's Company.
		Leo Smith, who founded the Kabell label in 1971, has also recorded for Freedom, Moers, ECM, Nesssa, FMP, Black Saint, Nessa, and Sackville in settings ranging from unaccompanied solos to a big band.
	music.aol.com /artist/wadada-leo-smith/9698/biography (305 words)

	CalArts - School of Music Faculty: Wadada Leo Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Smith's awards include Meet the Composer/ Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Commissioning Program (1990 and 1996); Asian Cultural Council Grantee to Japan (June-August 1993); New York Foundation on the Arts Fellowship in Music (1990); numerous Meet the Composer Grants since 1977; and the National Endowment for the Arts Music Grants (1972, 1974 and 1981).
		Smith's music philosophy Notes (8 Pieces), Source of a New World Music: Creative Music was published by Kiom Press in 1973, and translated and published in Japan by Zen-On Music Company Ltd. in 1976.
		Smith's music for multi-ensembles has been performed since 1969, and his largest work Odwira for 12 multi-ensemble units was performed at CalArts in March, 1995.
	www.calarts.edu /schools/music/faculty/smith.html (485 words)

	Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith - Biography
		Born in Leland, Mississippi, Smith's early musical life began in the high school concert and marching bands.
		As an Improvisor-Composer, Smith has studied a variety of music cultures (African, Japanese, Indonesian, European and American) and has developed a Jazz and world music theory, and a notation system to fully express this music which he calls "Ankhrasmation".
		Smith's music for multi-ensembles has been performed since 1969, and his largest work Odwira for 12 multi-ensemble-units was performed in California I stitute of the Arts, March 1995.
	music.calarts.edu /~wls/pages/bio.html (387 words)

	Wadada Leo Smith & Anthony Braxton - Saturn, Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Sweet Embrace
		Wadada and Braxton’s relationship dates back to their stay in Paris in the late 60s and their subsequent return to the states and New York City.
		Wadada’s music is filled with the space and use of color and texture that makes it immediately recognizable.
		The culmination is a pulling at the seams of the music, as Wadada and Braxton contrast and compare their interpretation and execution of the piece.
	www.pirecordings.com /pi10 (445 words)

	Bagatellen: Wadada Leo Smith & Adam Rudolph - Compassion
		Smith also fostered early ties to the AACM and like Rudolph has routinely investigated indigenous cultures as sources for musical inspiration.
		Smith’s open trumpet salvos on “Love Rhythms” set against a tabla-like cascade of beats deliver some of the most focused and salubrious interplay of the set.
		Rudolph and Smith state a strong case for the combination and concoct an engrossing amalgam of their respective styles in the process.
	www.bagatellen.com /archives/reviews/001243.html (478 words)

	Nine Winds Records: Wadada Leo Smith
		ISHMAEL WADADA LEO SMITH, trumpet-player, multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser has been active in the creative contemporary world music for over thirty years.
		Smith's music philosophy Notes (8 Pieces) Source a New.
		Smith's Nda-Kulture ensemble has performed most of his music since 1970.
	www.ninewinds.com /Artists/smith.html (416 words)

	Wadada Leo Smith & Anthony Braxton - Organic Resonance
		Wadada Leo Smith & Anthony Braxton - Organic Resonance
		This is the first full duo recording of Wadada Leo Smith and Anthony Braxton ever.
		Wadada’s approach is a contrast to Braxton’s stylistically.
	www.pirecordings.com /pi06 (322 words)

	Wadada Leo Smith : Lake Biwa - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Smith has been composing with his originally conceived and developed Ankhrasmation system of notation since the early '70s.
		Smith's trumpet enters at midpoint and begins to stir the players to improvisation without ever losing sight of the melody and harmony in the piece.
		Smith has been on a tear for the past 15 years.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,3068790,00.html (437 words)

	HENRY KAISER & WADADA LEO SMITH: YO MILES! / CUNEIFORM RECORDS
		"Smith and Kaiser have recovered some of (Miles') radical energy and reapplied it in the context of a new technology that gives this music clarity as well as thudding power...if you want to see where (Miles') example leads us, this is the way to go"-The Wire.
		Kaiser and Smith have assembled an all-star cast that includes Smith on trumpet; Kaiser, Mike Keneally and Chris Muir on electric guitars; Michael Manring on bass; Steve Smith on drums; Karl Perazzo on percussion; Greg Osby (alto) and John Tchicai (tenor and soprano) on saxophones; and Tom Coster on keyboards.
		The lineup here includes Smith on trumpet; Kaiser, Mike Keneally and Chris Muir on electric guitars; Michael Manring on bass; Steve Smith on drums; Karl Perazzo on percussion; Greg Osby (alto) and John Tchicai (tenor and soprano) on saxophones; and Tom Coster on keyboards.
	www.cuneiformrecords.com /bandshtml/kaisersmith.html (722 words)

	Wadada Leo Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This is the first of Wadada Leo Smith's four solo albums to be recorded live, and it's a beautiful example of his meditative, pan-cultural music for unaccompanied trumpet.
		One of the jazz trumpet's most brilliant colorists, Smith is also one of the music's most provocative cross-cultural improvisers.
		Although Wadada Leo draws on many sources, he never sounds derivative or eclectic.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/98/07/16/OTR/WADADA_LEO_SMITH.html (207 words)

	Procession of the Great Ancestry - Wadada Leo Smith - Song Listings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Recorded in 1983 in Nessa's Acme studio in Chicago, Procession of the Great Ancestry is among Wadada Leo Smith's most obscure, but ultimately most satisfying, recordings.
		Smith sings with soul as the band weaves a magic spell around him.
		Smith here is playing a poetic balladry for these men, while musically elucidating his cosmology -- the rhythm section is so attuned, so finely restrained and tasteful, Smith could sing it out if he wanted to, but instead he creates long melody lines that whisper to completion.
	www.mp3.com /albums/129934/summary.html (541 words)

	Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith / Yo Miles!: Sky Garden - review
		Smith was to be one of the key players of the line-up alongside bass player Michael Manring, guitar players Nels Cline and Chris Muir and the explosive ROVA Saxophone Quartet sax team.
		Again we have Kaiser, Smith, Manring and Muir, joined here by saxophone players Greg Osby and John Tchicai, drummer Steve Smith, keyboard player Tom Coster, percussionists Karl Perazzo and Zakir Hussain and guitarist and keyboardist Mike Keneally, who had already played with Kaiser in The Mistakes.
		Penned by Smith, the long Shinjuku could in many ways be considered the gem of the record: nice timbral solutions, jumpy grooves, a vivacious solo by Osby on alto sax and a very nice guitar solo (by Keneally?) starting at 10'32".
	www.cloudsandclocks.net /CD_reviews/kaisersmith_sg_E.html (706 words)

	ASCAP Audio Portrait: Wadada Leo Smith
		Avant Jazz Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith has been a composer, improvisor and music educator since the 1960s.
		Compositions - Wadada Leo Smith says he only expected to record one piece - not fill half of the double-CD.
		Wah and Trumpet - Smith describes his approach to using a wah-wah pedal with a trumpet.
	www.ascap.com /audioportraits/wadadaleosmith.html (161 words)

	Anonymous Web Productions - Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited/Wadada Leo Smith and N'da Kulture: Dreams and ...
		Wadada is the hardest hitting player this century and part of last...
		Smith cries out with the brilliance of his trumpet and Mapfumo shapes his soft sung lyrics as only he can...
		Teamed with Smith and his soaring trumpet, Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited add multilayewhite rhythms pushed along by a host of percussion sounds, sometimes linked to a understated bass line or murdering speed guitar.
	www.anonymousweb.com /Thomas-Wadada (509 words)

	Wadada Leo Smith : Features : One Final Note
		As a player, composer/improviser, educator, and musical theorist, Smith’s contributions touch upon the history and future of jazz in all its incarnations.
		Recently OFN’s Matthew Sumera had the distinct privilege of talking with Smith at length as he was preparing for a Spring European tour (tour information available from Cuneiform Records at http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/tours.html).
		Generous with his time and ideas, Smith is a wellspring of musical wisdom, a master of both thought and execution.
	www.onefinalnote.com /features/2005/wadada (3511 words)

	* Dusted Reviews - Wadada Leo Smith *
		Wadada Leo Smith has kept his cool by keeping just ahead of the curve, ears cognizant of the past, but also cocked expectantly to the future.
		The music is of the multifarious and sometimes inscrutable exploratory ilk that the Leo specializes in.
		While Smith’s career is hardly on the wane, this date feels like a misstep when pondered against what’s come prior.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/2237 (487 words)

	Wadada Leo Smith - AOL Music
		Homepage of Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Trumpeter, Multi-Instrumentalist, Composer, Improviser and Educator.
		ISHMAEL WADADA LEO SMITH, trumpet player, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser, has been active in the creative contemporary music world for over...
		Download, listen and watch Wadada Leo Smith music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
	music.aol.com /artist/wadada-leo-smith/9698/main (154 words)

	Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet - The Year of the Elephant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Its members bridge many different periods of his life, from his beginnings in the AACM with Malachi, to playing with DeJohnette in Chicago before he left for New York City, to Anthony’s early developmental days in Connecticut.
		Wadada’s writing for this album touches on ballads, blues, improvisational pieces, and funk.
		The time spent with each person of the Golden Quartet has forged a bond between him and Wadada that invests some of the quieter moments of the CD with an intimacy rarely heard today.
	www.pirecordings.com /pi04 (248 words)

	Barry Schrader and Wadada Leo Smith Premiere "Wu Xing" at REDCAT
		Smith, named by Coda Magazine as "one of the most vital musicians on the planet today," is regarded as one of the leading performer/composers of modern jazz.
		"Water", developed from a concept of Smith's, reflecting on the conceptual aspects of the world's oceans at various depths, voyaging from the darkest abyss to the light of distant shores.
		Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith http://music.calarts.edu/~wls/, trumpet-player, multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser, has been active in the creative contemporary world music for over thirty years.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2005/11/prweb307490.htm (878 words)

	Snakish : Wadada Leo Smith : CD Reviews : One Final Note
		Wadada Leo Smith’s spare, economic playing, full of pure, sustained, vibrato-less notes, effortlessly conjures up the spirit of Miles Davis.
		It sets Smith’s trumpet in a very 21st century improv soundscape, created by Walter Quintus’ computer and processing, Katya Quintus’ voice, Miroslav Tadic’s acoustic guitars, and Mark Nauseef’s percussion plus electronics.
		Back to where we came in: Wadada Leo Smith’s distinctive sound is used sparingly.
	www.onefinalnote.com /reviews/s/smith-wadada-leo/snakish.asp (483 words)

	Wadada Leo Smith \| Snakish
		Of all the avant garde players from his generation, Wadada Leo Smith easily ranks among the most insightful collaborators with electronic musicians.
		Smith bites into low gritty growly notes on “Neither Liquid Nor Gaseous, Torn” among singing bowls, undermixed prepared guitar, and vining cloudy sound.
		Personnel: Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet; Walter Quintus: computer, processing; Miroslav Tadic: acoustic and baritone guitars; Katya Quintus: vocals; Mark Nauseef: percussion and live electronics.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=19726 (487 words)

	Wadada Leo Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He played in various RandB groups and by 1967 became a member of the AACM and co-founded the Creative Construction Company, a trio with Leroy Jenkins and Anthony Braxton.
		In 1998, Smith and guitarist Henry Kaiser released Yo, Miles!
		Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo Smith - Sky Garden (Review) - Published in The Music Box, July 2004, Vol.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wadada_Leo_Smith (373 words)

	Wadada Leo Smith \| Lake Biwa
		Lake Biwa presents Wadada Leo Smith's Silver Orchestra in four pieces that showcase the composer's startling originality and lofty inspiration.
		Tzadik's support of Wadada Leo Smith's compositional work continues to bear fruit with what may be his best collection yet for Zorn's fearlessly creative label.
		Personnel: Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet; Jennifer Choi: violin; Erik Friedlander: cello; John Lindberg, Wes Brown: bass; Marc Ribot: guitar; John Zorn: alto saxophone; Marcus Rojastuba; Anthony Coleman, Yuko Fujiyama, Craig Taborn, Jamie Saft: piano; Gerald Cleaver, Susie Ibarra: drums.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=18511 (401 words)

	Yo Miles! by Henry Kaiser/Wadada Leo Smith
		Calypso Frelimo - Wadada Leo Smith, Henry Kaiser
		The experiment was the brainchild of experimental guitar hero Henry Kaiser and trumpet player Wadada Leo Smith, who teamed themselves up with bassist Michael Manring, drummer Lucas Ligeti and a large number of other musicians both famous (John Medeski, Elliott Sharp) and obscure to rework some Miles Davis compositions from his electric jazz-funk period.
		But despite the generally attractive noises they create with their band, too many of the tracks on this album are strung out far too thin; there tends to be far more elaboration than the conceptual content of the tunes can support.
	www.mmguide.musicmatch.com /album/album.cgi?ALBUMID=1020340&AMGLENGTH=full (460 words)

	Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo Smith - Yo Miles! Sky Garden (Album Review)
		Sky Garden, it becomes abundantly clear that both guitarist Henry Kaiser and trumpet player Wadada Leo Smith, the collection’s creators, hold a particularly comprehensive understanding of Miles Davis’ music as well as his creative process.
		) was to utilize Davis’ compositions as a touchstone, thereby retaining the general ambience of the inaugural recordings, but otherwise, Kaiser and Smith jettisoned virtually everything else in order to rebuild the tracks from scratch.
		What’s particularly astounding — and what allows the endeavor to succeed — is that the chemistry of their assembled entourage mirrors that of Davis’ own alchemical ensembles.
	www.musicbox-online.com /hk-sky.html (220 words)

	wadada leo smith
		From 1971-1979 Wadada Leo Smith released four albums on his own, privately pressed label, Kabell.
		Under the supervision of the composer, this material has now been collected, remastered and coupled with over two hours of unreleased bonus tracks, including the second set of the influential Reflectavity concert and the legendary Mapenzi solo concert from 1976.
		Born in Leland, Mississippi, Leo was a founding member of the AACM in Chicago, and has been performing his music all over the world since the mid-1960s.
	www.boomkat.com /artist.cfm?a=6178 (203 words)

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