Person
Wadada Leo Smith
Albums
87
Members
17
Active
1941–present
Origin
United States
Biography
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (born December 18, 1941) is an American trumpeter and composer, working primarily in the fields of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation. He was one of three finalists for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music for Ten Freedom Summers, released on May 22, 2012.
Discography
Creative Music - 1 (Six Solo Improvisations)
Silence
The Haunt
The Mass On The World
Divine Love
Spirit Catcher
Spirit Catcher
Touch the Earth
Go In Numbers
If You Want the Kernels You Have to Break the Shells
Rastafari
Human Rights
Jah Music
Procession of the Great Ancestry
Procession Of The Great Ancestry
Cosmos Has Spirit
Kulture Jazz
Kulture Jazz
Tao-Njia
Prataksis
Condor, Autumn Wind
Yo, Miles!
Interludes of Breath and Substance
Light Upon Light
Dreams and Secrets
Golden Quartet
Grand Oak Trees At Dawn / String Quartet no. 1 / String Quartet no. 3 "Black Church" / Bardsdale
Reflectativity
Reflectativity
Red Sulphur Sky
Luminous Axis (Caravans Of Winter And Summer)
Organic Resonance
50⁸
50th Birthday Celebration, Volume 8
Kabell Years: 1971-1979
Lake Biwa
Saturn, Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Sweet Embrace
Sky Garden
Yo Miles! Sky Garden
Snakish
Upriver
Compassion
Wisdom in Time
America
America
Spiritual Dimensions
The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer
YO MILES! Lightning
YO MILES! Shinjuku
Ancestors
Ten Freedom Summers
Occupy the World
Twine Forest
Red Hill
Sonic Rivers
The Great Lakes Suite
The Stone
Celestial Weather
Red Chrysanthemums Solos 1977
A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
Credits
Defiant Life
Chimaera
Two Centuries
Lebroba
A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
America's National Parks
Red Hill
Ten Freedom Summers
The Sweetness of the Water
Natural Affinities
Rastafari
Go In Numbers
Touch the Earth
Divine Love
Clarity
Creative Orchestra Music 1976
The Flam
The Complete Braxton
This Time...
B-X° / NO-I-47ᴬ
Comme à la radio
Funky Skull
Humility in the Light of Creator
3 Compositions of New Jazz
50⁸
America
Blues Forever
Burning Meditation
Central Park's Mosaics Of Reservoir, Lake, Paths And Gardens
Company 5
Creative Construction Company
Creative Construction Company Vol.II
Creative Improvisation Ensemble
Creative Music - 1 (Six Solo Improvisations)
Creative Orchestra (Köln) 1978
Dét, Som Ikke Kan Kaldes Tilbage
Duets
Eclipse
For Players Only
Geechee Recollections
Geechee Recollections / Sweet Earth Flying
Heart's Reflections
Hemispheres
Kulture Jazz
Manhattan Cycles
Matthew Shipp's New Orbit
Metamorphosis
Murasaki
Orchestra (Paris) 1978
Pacifica Koral Reef
Porto Novo
Procession Of The Great Ancestry
Quartet (Paris) 1969
Quintet For A Day
Reflectativity
Silence
Silence / Time Zones
Sky Garden
Spirit Catcher
Straight To The Core