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Spiritual Dimensions

Artist: Wadada Leo Smith
Wadada Leo Smith - Spiritual Dimensions CD
Label: Cuneiform
Price: $20.95 
Year: 2009
Format: CD

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Recorded at Soop Studios, Los Angeles; Vision XII, New York City (06/13/2008); Firehouse 12, New Haven, CT (04/17/2009).

Wadada Leo Smith is a well-respected trumpeter and composer working in avant-garde jazz and improvisation. He was an early member of Chicago's legendary AACM collective, joining in 1967 and co-founded the Creative Construction Company, a trio with Leroy Jenkins and Anthony Braxton in the late 60s. In 1971 Smith formed his own label, Kabell, for whom he recorded a number of albums considered classics of their kind and which were collected and reissued by John Zorn's Tzadik label in 2004 on a lavishly praised box set entitled The Kabell Years. He has recorded additional albums on the Tzadik label as well as for ECM, Black Saint, Nessa, Pi and others. This album features two of Wadada's all-star groups, one on each CD. On disc one there is Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quintet: Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet; Vijay Iyer: piano, synthesizer; John Lindberg: bass; Pheeroan AkLaff: drums; Don Moye: drums. On disc two there is the recorded debut of Wadada Leo Smith's Organic: Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet; Michael Gregory: electric guitar; Brandon Ross: electric guitar; Nels Cline: 6- and 12-string electric guitar; Lamar Smith: electric guitar Okkyung Lee: cello; Skuli Sverrisson: electric bass; John Lindberg: acoustic bass; Pheeroan AkLaff: drums. The Golden Quintet straddles the line between modern/avant jazz and jazz with some electric touches. Organic is fully electric and a different beast; a four guitar, creative, bad-ass beast with slinky grooves.
ARTISTS
Wadada Leo Smith (trumpets); Vijay Iyer (piano, synthesizer); John Lindberg (bass); Pheeroan Aklaff (drums); Don Moye (drums)
TRACKS

DISC 1:
1. Al-Shadhili's Litany of the Sea: Sunrise
2. Pacifica
3. Umar at the Dome of the Rock, Parts 1 & 2
4. Crossing Sirat
5. South Central L.A. Kulture

DISC 2:
1. South Central L.A. Kulture
2. Angela Davis
3. Organic
4. Joy: Spiritual Fire: Joy

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