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Wadada's Suite of Liberation

Mendoza, Mark
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Publisher:  Against The Current
Date Written:  01/09/2013
Year Published:  2013  
Resource Type:  Article

A review on Ten Freedom Summers a 4-CD box set by Leo Wadada Smith.

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If you buy one jazz album this year, make it this one. This is not merely a moving testament to the contributions of African Americans to a free creative folk music of the Americas. It is y/our music. Savor it, and pass it down.

Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, the American trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer and teacher, has spent more than three decades composing the four-hour-twenty-minutes of music on this set. Premiered in October 2011 and recorded in Los Angeles a month later, Ten Freedom Summers is not strictly speaking a suite; instead, Smith states, “each composition … is complete and stands on its own.” There are currently a total of 21 separate pieces, 19 of which appear on the new release, thematically linked and subdivided into three smaller collections called “Defining Moments in America,” “What is Democracy?” and “Ten Freedom Summers” so that all can be performed over the course of three nights.
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