Wadada Leo Smith, Vijay Iyer & Jack DeJohnette – A Love Sonnet For Billie Holiday
zweite Chance mit etwas Abstand, die neuen TUM Boxen kommen ja schon in drei Wochen… ich bleib dabei, dass das an Tabligh zB nicht rankommt… auch wenn die zweite Haelfte besser funktioniert als die erste
die Streichquartettbox kling uebrigens im detaillierteren Pressetext eine Spur interessanter, als ich gedacht hatte – allein schon, weil Smith, Anthony Davis und andere trotzdem mitspielen…
Wadada Leo Smith STRING QUARTETS NOS 1 – 12 | TUM BOX 004 (7 Discs)
String Quartets Nos 1 – 12 is the long-awaited recording of Wadada Leo Smith’s first 12 string quartets released as a boxed set. They range from his “String Quartet No. 1” from 1965/67 to “String Quartet No. 11” and “String Quartet No.12,” each completed in 2018. Eleven of Smith’s first 12 string quartets have been recorded by the RedKoral Quartet, a string quartet created in 2010 to play his music, although some of its members had been performing Smith’s music in other contexts since 2005. RedKoral Quartet was also the main ensemble in the performances and recording of “Rosa Parks: Pure Love. An Oratorio of Seven Songs,” a project released in 2019. The remaining string quartet, “String Quartet No. 11 (Pacifica),” was recorded by a viola quartet assembled specifically for this recording. Featured soloists include Wadada Leo Smith, pianist Anthony Davis, harpist Alison Bjorkedal and vocalist Thomas Buckner, among others.Wadada Leo Smith with Pheeroan akLaff, Han Bennink, Andrew Cyrille and Jack DeJohnette EMERALD DUETS | TUM BOX 005 (4 Discs)
Emerald Duets represents another high point in Wadada Leo Smith’s already legendary series of duo recordings with some of the greatest drummers in the history of creative music. On each separate CD, Smith is featured with one of four extraordinary drum masters, Pheeroan akLaff, Han Bennink, Andrew Cyrille and Jack DeJohnette. Smith first played with Jack DeJohnette in Chicago in the 1960s and has frequently collaborated with him since the 1990s. After Smith settled in New Haven, Connecticut, in the early 1970s, Pheeroan akLaff entered the circle of young musicians Smith worked with, heralding a musical relationship that continues to the present day. Smith’s earliest encounters with Han Bennink also took place in the 1970s, when he spent time in Europe and toured with Company. Smith and Andrew Cyrille first performed together in the late 1990s in the John Lindberg Ensemble and have more recently expanded their collaborations into various other projects.
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