Wadada Leo Smith
Festival
Long Play
Brooklyn Brooklyn various venues, United States
News
Wadada Leo Smith exhibits Ankhrasmation scores
Wadada Leo Smith exhibits Ankhrasmation scores
The University of Chicago to exhibit Wadada Leo Smith’s scores
Tracks
Listen: Wadada Leo Smith's Red Hill album
September 2014
Stream the entirety of Wadada Leo Smith, Joe Morris, Jamie Saft and Balazs Pandi's Red Hill album.
In Conversation
Oral Histories: Wadada Leo Smith
April 2014
Trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith traces the development of his Ankhrasmastion language, from the first time he picked up a trumpet age 12, through to the present day.
News
Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers is Pulitzer prize finalist
Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers is Pulitzer prize finalist
Chicago trumpet colossus Wadada Leo Smith named as a finalist for the Pulitzer for music, behind Caroline Shaw's for Partita for 8 Voices.
News
Wadada Leo Smith to release Ten Freedom Summers
Wadada Leo Smith to release Ten Freedom Summers
Wadada Leo Smith is releasing Ten Freedom Summers , a 21 part work based on the American civil rights movement. The work centres around the ten...
Interview
Wadada Leo Smith - uncut
February 2010
Read Phil Freeman's unedited transcript of his interview with the avant jazz giant
Issue 312
February 2010
Video
Wadada Leo Smith live
January 2010
Check a video of Wadada Leo Smith performing live with his Golden Quintet