Kulture Jazz

Kulture Jazz
Studio album by Wadada Leo Smith
Released 1993
Recorded October 1992
Genre Jazz
Length 52:16
Label ECM
Producer Steve Lake
Leo Smith chronology
The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer
(2010)
Kulture Jazz
(1992)
Tao-Njia
(1996)

Kulture Jazz is an album by American jazz trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith recorded in 1993 and released on the ECM label.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

The Allmusic review by Eugene Chadbourne states "The ECM folks do much better by Wadada Leo Smith than ever before with this solo recording, a true masterwork of its kind and one of the purest, most enlightening demonstrations of the connected natures of folk, blues, jazz, and creative music".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Wadada Leo Smith
  1. "Don't You Remember?" - 3:42
  2. "Kulture of Jazz" - 5:33
  3. "Song of Humanity (Kanto Pri Homaro)" - 3:36
  4. "Fire-Sticks, Chrysanthemums and Moonlight (For Harumi)" - 3:42
  5. "Seven Rings of Light in the Hola Trinity" - 2:26
  6. "Louis Armstrong Counterpointing" - 2:43
  7. "Albert Ayler in a Spiritual Light" - 4:44
  8. "The Kemet Omega Reigns (For Billie Holiday)" - 5:02
  9. "Love Supreme (For John Coltrane)" - 3:56
  10. "Mississippi Delta Sunrise (For Bobbie)" - 3:55
  11. "Mother: Sarah Brown-Smith-Wallace (1920-92)" - 4:06
  12. "The Healer's Voyage on the Sacred River (For Ayl Kwel Armah)" - 3:46
  13. "Uprising (For Jessie and Yvonne)" - 5:05
  • Recorded at Hardstudios in Winterthur, Switzerland in October 1992

Personnel

References

  1. ECM discography accessed October 20, 2011
  2. 1 2 Chadbourne, E. Allmusic Review accessed October 20, 2011
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