Veteran jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and the comparatively younger but also-veteran jazz pianist Vijay Iyer have announced their second duo album, Defiant Life, which follows 2016’s A Cosmic Rhythm ...

ISHMAEL WADADA LEO SMITH trumpet-player, multi- instrumentalist, composer and improviser has been active in the creative contemporary world music for over thirty years. His theory of Jazz and World ...

For a long time, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith has pushed the boundaries of experimental jazz. The records he made during the seventies for his own Kabell label have become a richly treasured legacy of ...

Five decades after Smith began recording, the trumpeter and composer is having his moment. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews America's National Parks, recorded by Smith's Golden Quintet. This is ...

Art-rock heroes join forces with the avant-jazz trumpet veteran on a new Bandcamp-only live LP benefiting Black Lives Matter The musicians are donating all proceeds from the song to Black Lives Matter ...

It's a great honor to present a handful of tracks by my hero and friend, the composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. The answer is yes. And it's a good feeling when music can lead you to the brink of ...

Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith bows his trumpet down into the mic as if in an act of prayer. Drummers clatter behind him, their music held on the edge of orbit and then, afterwards, he pleads with the ...

Last year, the resolutely nonconformist composer, educator and percussionist Tyshawn Sorey was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music — a rare honor in itself, and a confirmation of the esteem ...