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Wadada Leo Smith

The Emerald Duets (5CD Box)

Label: TUM Records

Format: 5CD Box

Genre: Jazz

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€68.00
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Part of his 80th Anniversary celebration and subtitled "The Art Of The Trumpeter And Drummers", this 5-CD box set brings legendary improviser Wadada Leo Smith together with four long-time collaborators and masterful drummers--Andrew Cyrille, Jack DeJohnette, Pheeroan akLaff and Han Bennink--with Smith performing on both piano and trumpet.  5-CD BOX SET. Includes 60 pages booklet. The Emerald Duets is a crowning achievement among Wadada Leo Smith's many recorded duo collaborations with drummers/percussionists, that have previously featured such creative giants as Ed Blackwell, Jack DeJohnette, Milford Graves, Louis Moholo-Moholo among others. The Emerald Duets features four master drummers who have each, in their own unique fashion, contributed to the way modern drumming has developed in the past six decades and how it is now perceived. Pheeroan akLaff, Andrew Cyrille and Han Bennink are each featured on one disc and Jack DeJohnette on two discs, including Smith's five-part composition "Paradise: The Gardens and Fountains" that fills the fifth disc of this boxed set in its entirety.

The sessions with akLaff, Cyrille and DeJohnette mostly feature compositions by Wadada Leo Smith, including three very different versions of Smith's powerful statement for the protection of freedom and democracy, "The Patriot Act, Unconstitutional and a Force that Destroys Democracy.

 

Details
Cat. number: TUM BOX 006
Year: 2021
Notes:
Disc 1 recorded by ... , at Sear Sound Studios in Manhattan, New York City, on December 3 & 4, 2019 Disc 2 recorded by ... , at Sear Sound Studios in Manhattan, New York City, on September 20 & 21, 2019 Disc 3 recorded by ... at Electric Monkey Studios in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on July 29, 2014 Discs 4 & 5 recorded by ... , at Sear Sound Studios in Manhattan, New York City, on January 9 & 10, 2020 Includes a 60 pages booklet (with a.o. a discography of Wadada Leo Smith' duo recordings with drummers and a selected discography with his other duos)