Discography
Main Discography
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Wadada Leo Smith & Orange Wave Electric: Fire Illuminations
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Wadada Leo Smith: String Quartets Nos. 1-12
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Wadada Leo Smith: The Emerald Duets
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Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lake Quartets: The Chicago Symphonies
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Wadada Leo Smith: Trumpet
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Wadada Leo Smith, Jack DeJohnette & Vijay Iyer: A Love Sonnet For Billie Holiday
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Wadada Leo Smith with Milford Graves And Bill Laswel: Sacred Ceremonies
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Wadada Leo Smith: Rosa Parks: Pure Love, An Oratorio of Seven Songs
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Wadada Leo Smith: Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk
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Wadada Leo Smith: Najwa
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Wadada Leo Smith: America’s National Parks
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Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith: A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
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Wadada Leo Smith: Red Chrysanthemums Solos 1977
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Wadada Leo Smith / Hardedge: The Nile
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Wadada Leo Smith: The Great Lakes Suites
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Wadada Leo Smith Smith & TUMO: Occupy The World
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Wadada Leo Smith: Ten Freedom Summers
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Wadada Leo Smith: Heart’s Reflections
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Wadada Leo Smith’s Mbira: Dark Lady of the Sonets
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Wadada Leo Smith and Ed Blackwell: The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer
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Wadada Leo Smith / Jack DeJohnette: America
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Wadada Leo Smith: Spiritual Dimensions
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Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet: Tabligh
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Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet: Eclipse (DVD)
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Wadada Leo Smith: Lake Biwa
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Wadada Leo Smith: Kabell Years 1971–1979
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Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet: The Year of The Elephant
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Wadada Leo Smith: Luminous Axis (Caravans of Winter and Summer)
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Wadada Leo Smith: Red Sulphur Sky
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Wadada Leo Smith: Reflectativity
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Wadada Leo Smith / Southwest Chamber Music: Grand Oak Trees At Dawn / String Quartet No. 1 / String Quartet No. 3 “Black Church” / Bardsdale
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Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet: Golden Quartet
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Wadada Leo Smith and N’da Kulture / Thomas Mapfumo and The Blacks Unlimited: Dreams and Secrets
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Wadada Leo Smith: Light Upon Light
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Wadada Leo Smith and Harumi Makino Smith: Condor, Autumn Wind
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Wadada Leo Smith and N’da Kulture: Golden Hearts Rememberance
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Wadada Leo Smith: Tao-Njia
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Wadada Leo Smith: Kulture Jazz
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Wadada Leo Smith / Sabu Toyozumi: Cosmos Has Spirit
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Wadada Leo Smith: Procession Of The Great Ancestry
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Leo Smith: Human Rights
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Leo Smith with The Bill Smith Ensemble: Rastafari
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Leo Smith & The New Dalta Ahkri: Go In Numbers
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Leo Smith Creative Orchestra: Budding Of A Rose
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Leo Smith: Solo Music Ankreanvention
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Leo Smith: Divine Love
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Leo Smith: Spirit Catcher
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Leo Smith Trio: Mass On The World
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New Dalta Ahkri: Song Of Humanity (Kanto Pri Homaro)
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New Dalta Ahkri: Reflectativity
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Leo Smith: Creative Music – 1
Projects / Collaborations
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Anthony Braxton: 3 Compositions of New Jazz
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Anthony Braxton: Silence
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Anthony Braxton: B-X0 NO-47A
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Wadada Leo Smith/ Anthony Braxton: Saturn, Conjunct The Grand Canyon In A Sweet Embrace
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Wadada Leo Smith / Anthony Braxton: Organic Resonance
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Creative Construction Company: Creative Construction Company
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Creative Construction Company: Creative Construction Company, Vol. II
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Marion Brown / Leo Smith: Creative Improvisation Ensemble
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Marion Brown: Geechie Recollections
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Wadada Leo Smith & Louis Moholo-Moholo: Ancestors
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Wadada Leo Smith & John Lindberg: Celestial Weather
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Creative Improvisors Orchestra – The Sky Cries The Blues
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Wadada Leo Smith / George Lewis / John Zorn: Sonic Rivers
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Wadada Leo Smith / John Tilbury: Bishopsgate Concert
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Jeanne Lee: Natural Affinities
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Wadada Leo Smith / Günter Baby Sommer: Wisdom In Time
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John Coxon / Wadada Leo Smith: Brooklyn Duos
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Wadada Leo Smith / Adam Rudolph: Compassion
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Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith: Abbey Road Quartet
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Wadada Leo Smith, Susie Ibarra, John Zorn: 50⁸
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Henry Kaiser / Wadada Leo Smith: Yo Miles!
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Henry Kaiser / Wadada Leo Smith: Yo Miles!: Upriver
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Henry Kaiser / Wadada Leo Smith: Yo Miles!: Sky Garden
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Yo Miles!: Shinjuku
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Yo Miles! Lightning
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Harriet Tubman: Araminta
Other Recordings
Anthony Braxton: This Time
Anthony Braxton: Trio and Duet
Anthony Braxton: Creative Orchestra Music 1976
Anthony Braxton: Creative Orchestra (Koln) 1978
Anthony Davis: Hemispheres
Roscoe Mitchell Creative Orchestra: Sketches From Bamboo
Roscoe Mitchell: L-R-G
Roscoe Mitchell & The Note Factory: The Bad Guys
Various Artists – Wildflowers: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions
Leo Smith / Peter Kowald / Günter Sommer: Touch The Earth
Kowald / Smith / Sommer: If You Want The Kernels You Have To Break the Shells
Muhal Richard Abrams: Young at Heart / Wise in Time
Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre: Humility, In the Light of the Creator
Frank Lowe: The Flam
Frank Lowe: Doctor Too-Much
Michael Gregory Jackson: Clarity
Bobby Naughton / Leo Smith / Perry Robinson: The Haunt
Leroy Jenkins, The Jazz Composers Orchestra: For Players Only
Phillip Wilson Trio: Live-Fruits
Alvin Singleton: Somehow We Can
Angelica Sanchez / Wadada Leo Smith: Twine Forest
Wadada Leo Smith / Jamie Saft / Joe Morris / Balazs Pandi – Red Hill
Matthew Goodheart with Wadada Leo Smith: Interludes Of Breath And Substance
Spring Heel Jack with Wadada Leo Smith: The Sweetness Of The Water
Wadada Leo Smith / Walter Quintus /Katya Quintus / Miroslav Tadić / Mark Nauseef: Snakish
Tania Chen / Henry Kaiser/ Wadada Leo Smith / William Winant: Ocean Of Storms
Brigitte Fontaine: Come a la Radio
Company: Company 5
Company: Company 6
Company: Company 7
Clifford Thortnton, The Jazz Composers Orchestra: The Garden of Harlem
Matthew Shipp: New Orbit
John Lindberg: The Catbird Sing
John Lindberg: A Tree Frog Tonality
Wadada Leo Smith / Natsuki Tamura / Satoko Fujii / Ikue Mori: Aspirations
Melvin Jackson: Funky Skull
Tyrone Henderson / David Bindman: Strawman Dance
Tyrone Henderson: Not So Unusual Blues
Tony Malaby’s Tamarindo: Tamarindo Live
Jeb Bishop: 98 Duets
What We Live: Quintet For A Day
Susie Ibarra: Flower After Flower
Susie Ibarra: Folkloriko
Park Je Chun: Mol-e Mori II
Piotr Baron: Salve Regina
Daren Burns: Fear Is Not The Natural State Of Civilized People
Smith / Eco D’Alberi: June 6th-2013
Marco Eneidi: American Jungle Orchestra
Zen Widow feat. Wadada Leo Smith: Screaming in Daytime (Makes Men Forget)