Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith
Brad Mehldau/Wadada Leo Smith – review
With Mark Guiliana, Mehldau was funky and electric – while Wadada Leo Smith's epic was both beautiful and sobering, writes John Fordham
John Fordham
22, Nov, 2013 @2:20 PM
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith: 'The black experience is American experience'
He invented his own form of notation, and spent decades composing a jazz history of the civil rights movement. Ben Beaumont-Thomas meets an extraordinary musical pioneer
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
23, Sep, 2012 @9:07 PM
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith: Ten Freedom Summers – review
This epic life's work is a landmark in jazz's rich canon, writes John Fordham
John Fordham
30, Aug, 2012 @9:19 PM
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith – review
Ethnomusicologist, Rastafarian reggae fan, inventor of his own musical notation – the Mississipi-born Smith draws from a very deep well, writes John Fordham
John Fordham
29, Aug, 2012 @2:31 PM
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