Wadada Leo Smith - Najwa (2017)

Wadada Leo Smith
Najwa
2017 - TUM Records: TUM CD 049
https://www.tumrecords.com/049-najwa

* Wadada Leo Smith : trumpet
* Michael Gregory Jackson: guitar
* Henry Kaiser : guitar
* Brandon Ross : guitar
* Lamar Smith : guitar
* Bill Laswell : electric bass
* Pheeroan akLaff : drums
* Adam Rudolph : percussion

http://www.michaelgregoryjackson.com/
http://www.henrykaiserguitar.com/
https://www.brandonross.nyc/
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/lamar-smith-mn0002691616
http://www.billlaswell.net/
https://www.pheeroanaklaff.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Rudolph

Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najwa_(album)

Reviews
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By Dan McClenaghan
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/najwa-wadada-leo-smith-tum-records-review-by-dan-mcclenaghan.php

[...]

Smith often goes epic. He opens Najwa with the anthemic, sixteen minute
"Ornette Coleman's Harmolodic Sonic Hierographic Forms: A Resonance Change In
The Millennium" to get your attention, then helps you find religion with the
fourteen minute "Ohnedaruth John Coltrane: The Master Of Kosmic Music And His
Spirituality In A Love Supreme." The relatively brief title tune is an ode to
love lost, a gorgeous soundtrack to a dream, or a portal to a parallel
dimension, before the disc's tribute aspect reemerges with a nod to the late
drummer, and sometimes participant in Smith's Golden Quartet, Ronald Shannon
Jackson, on the dark-hued and insistently rhythmic "Ronald Shannon Jackson: The
Master Of Symphonic Drumming and Multi-Sonic Rhythms, Inscriptions Of Rare
Beauty." Smith's love letter to vocalist Billie Holiday closes the set. Titled,
in typical Smithian fashion, "The Empress, Lady Day: In a Rainbow Garden, with
Yellow-Gold Hot Springs, Surrounded By Exotic Plant And Flowers," it wraps this
superb recording up with great beauty and a sacred serenity.

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By Nicola Negri
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2017/12/wadada-leo-smith-najwa-tum-records-2017.html

By Marc Medwin

By Tim Niland

Dionizy Piątkowski (pl)
https://jazz.pl/wadada-leo-smith-najwa-tum-records/

Da Maurizio Comandini (it)
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/najwa-wadada-leo-smith-tum-records-review-by-maurizio-comandini.php

Por Carlos Navarro A. (es)
http://rockaxis.com/disco/najwa

Por Sergio Piccirilli (es)
http://elintruso.com/2017/12/30/wadada-leo-smith-najwa/