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Wadada Leo Smith
Since 1941
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Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (born December 18, 1941) is an American trumpeter and composer, working primarily in the field of creative music. He was one of three finalists for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music for Ten Freedom Summers, released on May 22, 2012.
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Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, né le 18 décembre 1941 à Leland dans le Mississippi, est un trompettiste et compositeur américain travaillant essentiellement dans les domaines de l'avant-garde et de l'improvisation libre.
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Discography
Albums
- 1971 Creative Music - 1 (Six Solo Improvisations)
- 1974 Silence
- 1977 The Haunt
- 1978 The Mass On The World
- 1979 Divine Love
- 1979 Spirit Catcher
- 1980 Touch the Earth
- 1982 Go In Numbers
- 1982 If You Want the Kernels You Have to Break the Shells
- 1983 Rastafari
- 1986 Human Rights
- 1986 Jah Music
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- 1989 Procession of the Great Ancestry
- 1992 Cosmos Has Spirit
- 1993 Kulture Jazz
- 1996 Tao-Njia
- 1997 Prataksis
- 1998 Yo, Miles!
- 1999 Interludes of Breath and Substance
- 1999 Light Upon Light
- 2000 Dreams and Secrets
- 2000 Grand Oak Trees At Dawn / String Quartet no. 1 / String Quartet no. 3 "Black Church" / Bardsdale
- 2000 Reflectativity
- 2000 Golden Quartet
- 2001 Red Sulphur Sky
- 2002 Luminous Axis (Caravans Of Winter And Summer)
- 2003 Organic Resonance
- 2004 Lake Biwa
- 2004 Sky Garden
- 2004 Yo Miles! Sky Garden
- 2004 Saturn, Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Sweet Embrace
- 2005 Snakish
- 2005 Upriver
- 2007 Wisdom in Time
- 2009 America
- 2010 YO MILES! Lightning
- 2010 YO MILES! Shinjuku
- 2012 Ten Freedom Summers
- 2012 Ancestors
- 2013 Occupy the World
- 2013 Twine Forest
- 2014 Sonic Rivers
- 2014 The Great Lakes Suite
- 2014 Red Hill
- 2015 Red Chrysanthemums Solos 1977
- 2015 Celestial Weather
- 2016 A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
- 2016 America's National Parks
- 2017 Aspiration
- 2017 Najwa
- 2017 Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk
- 2018 Lebroba
- 2019 Rosa Parks: Pure Love. An Oratorio of Seven Songs
- 2021 Sun Beans Of Shimmering Light
- 2021 Sacred Ceremonies
- 2021 A Love Sonnet for Billie Holiday
- 2022 Pacifica Koral Reef
- 2022 String Quartets nos. 1–12
- 2022 The Emerald Duets
- 2022 Two Centuries
- 2024 Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens
- 2025 Defiant Life
- 2025 The Montclair Session
- 2025 Angel Falls
- 2025 Murasaki
- 2026 Constellations and Hemispheres
- Golden Hearts Remembrance
