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The Roulette Tapes - Wadada Leo Smith: Tradition & Transition
Wadada Leo Smith: Tradition & Transition
Composer and trumpet player Wadada Leo Smith in commentary and concert excerpts recorded at Roulette including a duo with keyboardist Amina Claudine Myers (Central Park Mosaics, 2024), passages from his Pulitzer-nominated Ten Freedom Summers (Golden Quartet and the Pacifica Coral Reef Ensemble, 2013), and a Rastafarian ceremonial ritual with vocalist Jeanne Lee (1989) An early member and proponent of the AACM and the Chicago "creative music" paradigm, Wadada taught for years at Cal Arts and has an enduring connection with Wesleyan University. Over the…
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