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Litanies, Prayers and Meditations

The Prayer (For Keith Jarrett)

First Meditation from the Heart: The Beauty, the Beloved

The Uyghur in Xinjiang, China

A Sonic Expression (Wadada Leo Smith)

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

A Sonic Litany on Peace

The Patriot Act, Unconstitutional and a Force That Destroys Democracy

A Sonic Litany on Justice

Second Meditation from the Heart: The Beloved, the Beauty

Havana, Cuba

The Patriot Act, Unconstitutional and a Force That Destroys Democracy

Havana, the Maghrib Prayer and Reflections

Ilhan Omar

Mongezi Feza

Jeanne Lee: In a Jupiter Mood

Donald Ayler: The Master of the Sound and Energy Forms

A Rainbow Sonic Ark for Tomasz Ludwik Stanko (1942-2018

Haiti, An Independent Nation in 1804 But Not Recognized By Britain, France, Germany, the United States and Others: A Designed Tr

Mysterious Sonic Fields

Chrysanthemum Flowers on a Mountaintop (For Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson)

Largo: A Mysterious Love Sonic (For Shana Redmond and Her Famil)

Louis Armstrong in New York City and Accra, Ghana

Albert Einstein: Particles of Light, a Study in Perception

Ornette Coleman at the World's Fair of Science and Art in Fort Worth, Texas

The Call - a Duet Between Joseph "King" Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton

Light Garden in a Dream-Space, a Remembrance of Shaba of Ethiopia

Han Bennink on Fifth Avenue, NYC

Johnny Dyani, the Artist Who Imagined a New South Africa. a Celebration

Wadada Leo Smith ; Jack Dejohnette: Freedom Summer, the Legacysandalwood and Sage

Freedom Summer

Meditation: A Sonic Circle of Double Piano Resonances

The Patriot Act, Unconstitutional and a Force That Destroys Democracy

Silence, Quietness and Very Still

Paradise: The Gardens and Fountains

Part I - the River of Abundance

Part II - the Fountain of Tasnim

Part III - the Supreme Fountain

Part IV - Exaltation and Musk

Part V - Pomegranates and Herbal Teas

Item UPC: 6430015288065

Date First Available: June 17, 2022

Label: TUM RECORDS

Wadada Leo Smith

Emerald Duets

Name: Wadada Leo Smith - Emerald Duets
Brand: Wadada Leo Smith
SKU: 6430015288065
Price: 90.98 USD
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ABOUT THE ALBUM

(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 "Paradise: The Gardens and Fountains" 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, "The Patriot Act, Unconstitutional and a Force that Destroys Democracy." The session with Bennink includes a combination of Smith's compositions and collectively created tracks.

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