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Wadada Leo Smith




AKAMU representation: Worldwide
For info and costs please contact Alberto Lofoco


• projects •


Wadada Leo Smith "NAJWA"

Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet and composition
Brandon Ross - electric guitar
Lamar Smith - electric guitar
Bill Laswell - electric bass
Melvin Gibbs - electric bass
Pheeroan akLaff - drums


Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quintet "America's National Parks"

Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet and composition
Anthony Davis - piano and rhodes
Ashley Walters - cello
John Lindberg - double bass
Pheeroan akLaff - drums
Jesse Gilbert - projection


Wadada Leo Smith - Bill Laswell

Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Bill Laswell - electric bass


Wadada Leo Smith Solo with Video Projection:

"Reflections and Meditations on Monk"


Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet


• videos •

Wadada Leo Smith performing Solo at the Heineken Jazzaldia Festival - San Sebastián (25-7-2014)

Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet performs "Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 381 Days" live at the Heineken Jazzaldia Festival - San Sebastiàn (25-7-2014)

Golden Quartet and Pacifica Red Coral performing The Little Rock Nine composition from Ten Freedom Summers - São Paulo (2012)

Wadada Leo Smith - Günter "Baby" Sommer at Sons d'Hiver (October 2011)

Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet at Crosscurrent Fest - NYC (9-9-2011)

Wadada Leo Smith & Organic at Jazz em Agosto (Lisbõa) - (7-8-2011)

Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet at Sant'Anna Arresi (2009)

Wadada Leo Smith Organic Resonance: Jack Johnson live at Banlieues Bleues (2008)

Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quintet live at Vision Festival (2008)

Wadada Leo Smith at Improv 21, San Francisco - Part 1: Performance (3-8-2007)
Wadada Leo Smith at Improv 21, San Francisco - Part 2: What a Composer Does (3-8-2007)
Wadada Leo Smith at Improv 21, San Francisco - Part 3: Rhythm Units in the Composition "The Bell" (3-8-2007)
Wadada Leo Smith at Improv 21, San Francisco - Part 4: Ankhrasmation: Luminous Axis (3-8-2007)

Wadada Leo Smith: Eclipse - a film by Jacques Goldstein (2005)

Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet at Banlieues Bleues - Paris (2004)

• selected quotes •

Index of reviews by Jazzinstitut Darmstadt

Article on Jazziz by Jeff Jackson

Eclipse Interview by Jacques Goldstein (2005)

Interview for RAI5 TV (in italian) on 27-3-2011

Interview by Maria Michela Mattei for TV Prato (in italian) on 14-2-2012

Ten Freedom Summers by Stuart Broomer

A Struggle Composed, A Struggle Performed by Ron Jacobs - Counterpunch on 17-1-2014

Oral Histories "In Conversation" - The Wire - 2014

 

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