Wadada Leo Smith- Najwa

Label: TUM Records

Released 2017

Four new compositions by Wadada Leo Smith in tribute to past masters of creative music, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Ronald Shannon Jackson and Billie Holiday, as well as the title composition "Najwa" in remembrance of a love lost. Wadada Leo Smith performs with a highly-charged electric ensemble, including Michael Gregory Jackson, Henry Kaiser, Brandon Ross and Lamar Smith on guitars, Bill Laswell on electric bass, Pheeroan akLaff on drums and Adam Rudolph on percussion.

Track Listing:

1. Ornette Coleman's Harmolodic Sonic Hierographic Forms: A Resonance Change in the Millennium
2. Ohnedaruth John Coltrane: The Master of Kosmic Music and His Spirituality in a Love Supreme
3. Najwa
4. Ronald Shannon Jackson: The Master of Symphonic Drumming and Multi-Sonic Rhythms, Inscriptions of a Rare Beauty
5. The Empress, Lady Day: In a Rainbow Garden, With Yellow-Gold Hot Springs, Surrounded by Exotic Plants and Flowers