Wadada Leo Smith

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eponymous member of:	Wadada Leo Smith and Orange Wave Electric
member of:	Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians Douglas Ewart Quintet (jazz quintet) (trumpet) Leo Smith Trio John Lindberg Ensemble (trumpet) Tony Malaby’s Tamarindo (trumpet) Matthew Shipp’s New Orbit (trumpet) Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith (Composer-pianist Vijay Iyer and trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser Wadada Leo Smith) Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quintet
member of (as Leo Smith):	Roscoe Mitchell Creative Orchestra (trumpet) The Phillip Wilson Trio (trumpet)
original eponymous member of (as Leo Smith):	Leo Smith Creative Orchestra (trumpet)
founded:	Wadada Leo Smith and Orange Wave Electric Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet Wadada Leo Smith's Mbira
founded by:	Wadada Leo Smith's Organic

has personal publisher (as Leo Smith):	Leo Smith Publ. Co.

picture:	https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wadada_Leo_Smith.jpg [info]
Discogs:	https://www.discogs.com/artist/347445 [info]
official homepages:	http://adagio.calarts.edu/~wls/ [info] https://wadadaleosmith.com/ [info]
other databases:	http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89601494 [info] http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6rn3hxn [info] https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13957955m [info] https://d-nb.info/gnd/134841042 [info] https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/wadada_leo_smith [info] https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n89601494 [info]
Myspace:	https://myspace.com/wadadaleosmith [info]
BBC Music:	https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/11ce83c2-1ae1-4958-a28a-b58e61a6fb60 [info] (until 2020-11-19)
stream for free:	https://open.spotify.com/artist/1eE9oB7Z69NzfALiUJYKUm [info] https://www.deezer.com/artist/297285 [info]
Allmusic:	https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000812348 [info]
VIAF ID:	88077594 [info]
Wikidata:	Q2538661 [info]
Songkick:	https://www.songkick.com/artists/94941 [info]
Last.fm:	https://www.last.fm/music/Wadada+Leo+Smith [info]

Appearances

Date	Title	Credited as	Attributes	Artist	Length
	arranged
	Bitches Brew			Yo Miles!: Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith	26:36
	Black Satin (Slight Return)			Yo Miles!: Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith	16:24
	Corrado			Yo Miles!: Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith	4:23
	Demai			Wadada Leo Smith	6:23
	Go Ahead John			Yo Miles!: Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith	21:39
	Jabali (Part III)			Yo Miles!: Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith	10:21
	On the Corner Jam			Yo Miles!: Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith	15:29
	Tatu-Agharta Funk			Yo Miles!: Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith	10:33
	Tune in 5 - One Phone Call			Yo Miles!: Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith	8:15
	What I Say			Yo Miles!: Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith	13:30
	Yesterfunk			Yo Miles!: Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith	5:25
	conducted
1976-02	Piece Five			Anthony Braxton	7:19
1976-02	Piece One			Anthony Braxton	5:12
1976-02	Piece Three			Anthony Braxton	6:45
2012-02	Crossing on a Southern Road (A Memorial for Marion Brown)			Wadada Leo Smith & TUMO	25:21
2012-02	Mount Kilimanjaro (Love and Compassion for John Lindberg)			Wadada Leo Smith & TUMO	20:52
2012-02	Occupy the World for Life, Liberty and Justice			Wadada Leo Smith & TUMO	33:30
2012-02	Queen Hatshepsut			Wadada Leo Smith & TUMO	17:13
2012-02	The Bell – 2			Wadada Leo Smith & TUMO	15:57
2016-05-05	Eileen Jackson Southern, 1920-2002: A Literary National Park			Wadada Leo Smith	9:39
2016-05-05	New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718			Wadada Leo Smith	20:58
2016-05-05	Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Parks: The Giant Forest, Great Canyon, Cliffs, Peaks, Waterfalls and Cave Systems 1890			Wadada Leo Smith	6:46
2016-05-05	The Mississippi River: Dark and Deep Dreams Flow the River – A National Memorial Park c. 5000 BC			Wadada Leo Smith	31:07
2016-05-05	Yellowstone: The First National Park and the Spirit of America – The Mountains, Super-Volcano Caldera and Its Ecosystem 1872			Wadada Leo Smith	12:35
2016-05-05	Yosemite: The Glaciers, the Falls, the Wells and the Valley of Goodwill 1890			Wadada Leo Smith	15:24
	instruments
1969-02-05 – 1969-02-25	Ensemble Fate: Family Tree / Say a Prayer For / Out There (If Anyone Should Call) / Melissa / Bismillah		brass	Maurice McIntyre	19:14
1969-07-02	Wise in Time	Leo Smith	flugelhorn	Muhal Richard Abrams	21:53
1969-07-02	Wise in Time	Leo Smith	trumpet	Muhal Richard Abrams	21:53
1976-02	Piece Five		trumpet	Anthony Braxton	7:19
1976-02	Piece Four		trumpet	Anthony Braxton	6:26
1976-02	Piece Six		trumpet	Anthony Braxton	6:41
1976-02	Piece Three		trumpet	Anthony Braxton	6:45
1976-02	Piece Two		trumpet	Anthony Braxton	7:36
1976-06-25	Ordette	Leo Smith	trumpet	Naughton, Smith, Robinson	9:10
1976-06-25	Places	Leo Smith	trumpet	Naughton, Smith, Robinson	8:03
1976-06-25	Rose Island	Leo Smith	trumpet	Naughton, Smith, Robinson	8:50
1976-06-25	Slant	Leo Smith	trumpet	Naughton, Smith, Robinson	5:40
1976-06-25	The Haunt	Leo Smith	trumpet	Naughton, Smith, Robinson	7:10
1977-05-25 – 1977-05-27	EP/LS/DB	Leo Smith	trumpet	Company	4:19
1977-05-25 – 1977-05-27	EP/LS/DB	Leo Smith	flute	Company	4:19
1977-05-25 – 1977-05-27	LC/TH/LS	Leo Smith	flute	Company	6:50
1977-05-25 – 1977-05-27	LC/TH/LS	Leo Smith	trumpet	Company	6:50
1977-05-25 – 1977-05-27	LS/TH/AB/SL/MR	Leo Smith	flute	Company	14:22
1977-05-25 – 1977-05-27	LS/TH/AB/SL/MR	Leo Smith	trumpet	Company	14:22
1977-05-25 – 1977-05-27	TH/LS	Leo Smith	flute	Company	2:59
1977-05-25 – 1977-05-27	TH/LS	Leo Smith	trumpet	Company	2:59
1978-07-14	Death Ain’t Supposed to Be Negative (live, 1978‐07‐14: North Sea Jazz Festival ’78, Congresgebouw: Bon Bini Zaal, The Hague, Netherlands)	Leo Smith	trumpet	The Phillip Wilson Trio	9:45
1978-07-14	Electricity (live, 1978‐07‐14: North Sea Jazz Festival ’78, Congresgebouw: Bon Bini Zaal, The Hague, Netherlands)	Leo Smith	trumpet	The Phillip Wilson Trio	11:20
1978-07-14	F & L (live, 1978‐07‐14: North Sea Jazz Festival ’78, Congresgebouw: Bon Bini Zaal, The Hague, Netherlands)	Leo Smith	trumpet	The Phillip Wilson Trio	14:04
1978-07-14	Leo’s Tune (live, 1978‐07‐14: North Sea Jazz Festival ’78, Congresgebouw: Bon Bini Zaal, The Hague, Netherlands)	Leo Smith	trumpet	The Phillip Wilson Trio	10:21
1998-01-05 – 1998-01-08	Agharta Prelude	Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith	trumpet	Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith	13:04
1998-01-05 – 1998-01-08	Big Fun, Hollywuud	Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith	trumpet	Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith	4:03
1998-01-05 – 1998-01-08	Black Satin	Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith	trumpet	Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith	7:56
1998-01-05 – 1998-01-08	Calypso Frelimo	Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith	trumpet	Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith	25:40
1998-01-05 – 1998-01-08	Ife	Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith	trumpet	Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith	35:34
1998-01-05 – 1998-01-08	Maiysha	Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith	trumpet	Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith	8:17
1998-01-05 – 1998-01-08	Miles Dewey Davis III - Great Ancestor	Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith	trumpet	Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith	11:02
1998-01-05 – 1998-01-08	Moja - Nne	Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith	trumpet	Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith	10:13
1998-01-05 – 1998-01-08	Themes From Jack Johnson: Yesternow; Right Off; Interlude, Tune In 5; Willie Nelson; Right Off; Spanish Key; Right Off	Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith	trumpet	Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith	34:22
1998-01-05 – 1998-01-08	Wili (For Dave)	Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith	trumpet	Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith	9:42
2000-09-14	Chi		trumpet	Matthew Shipp’s New Orbit	7:50
2000-09-14	Maze Hint		trumpet	Matthew Shipp’s New Orbit	1:09
2000-09-14	New Orbit		trumpet	Matthew Shipp’s New Orbit	2:59
2000-09-14	Orbit 2		trumpet	Matthew Shipp’s New Orbit	3:38
2000-09-14	Orbit 3		trumpet	Matthew Shipp’s New Orbit	2:23
2000-09-14	Orbit 4		trumpet	Matthew Shipp’s New Orbit	1:30
2000-09-14	Paradox X		trumpet	Matthew Shipp’s New Orbit	4:32
2000-09-14	Paradox Y		trumpet	Matthew Shipp’s New Orbit	3:54
2000-09-14	Syntax		trumpet	Matthew Shipp’s New Orbit	7:16
2000-09-14	U Feature		trumpet	Matthew Shipp’s New Orbit	3:55
2002	Crepuscule IV in Powderhorn Park			Douglas Ewart Quintet	11:17
2003-04-05	A Celestial Bow, Stone Rivers and Silver Stars Overlayed in Red		brass [trumpet, flugelhorn]	Anthony Braxton and Wadada Leo Smith	9:37
2003-04-05	Composition No.314		brass [trumpet, flugelhorn]	Anthony Braxton and Wadada Leo Smith	15:13
2003-04-05	Composition No.315		brass [trumpet, flugelhorn]	Anthony Braxton and Wadada Leo Smith	16:39
2003-04-05	Composition No.316		brass [trumpet, flugelhorn]	Anthony Braxton and Wadada Leo Smith	28:40
2003-04-05	Goshawk		brass [trumpet, flugelhorn]	Anthony Braxton and Wadada Leo Smith	8:58
2003-04-05	Saturn, Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Sweet Embrace		brass [trumpet, flugelhorn]	Anthony Braxton and Wadada Leo Smith	13:24
2003-04-05	Tawaf (Cycles 1 - 7)		brass [trumpet, flugelhorn]	Anthony Braxton and Wadada Leo Smith	11:48
2003-09-22	Full Fathom Five		trumpet	Wadada Leo Smith, Susie Ibarra & John Zorn	6:50
2003-09-22	Ghost Writing		trumpet	Wadada Leo Smith, Susie Ibarra & John Zorn	11:57
2003-09-22	Ipsissimi		trumpet	Wadada Leo Smith, Susie Ibarra & John Zorn	15:59
2003-09-22	The Ascending Arc		trumpet	Wadada Leo Smith, Susie Ibarra & John Zorn	8:03
2008-10	America, Parts 1, 2 & 3		trumpet	Wadada Leo Smith and Jack DeJohnette	14:23
2008-10	Ed Blackwell, the Blue Mountain Sun Drummer		trumpet	Wadada Leo Smith and Jack DeJohnette	10:13
2008-10	John Brown's Fort		trumpet	Wadada Leo Smith and Jack DeJohnette	5:59
2008-10	Rabi'a's Unconditional Love, a Spiritual Mystery of the Heart		trumpet	Wadada Leo Smith and Jack DeJohnette	7:08
2008-10	Red Trumpet		trumpet	Wadada Leo Smith and Jack DeJohnette	7:53
2008-10	The Masnavi: the Falcon and the Owls		flugelhorn	Wadada Leo Smith and Jack DeJohnette	7:33
2011-05-08	Part I		trumpet	Pauline Oliveros, Roscoe Mitchell, John Tilbury, Wadada Leo Smith	30:41
2011-05-08	Part II		trumpet	Pauline Oliveros, Roscoe Mitchell, John Tilbury, Wadada Leo Smith	39:44
2011-05-08	Part III (Encore)		trumpet	Pauline Oliveros, Roscoe Mitchell, John Tilbury, Wadada Leo Smith	5:24
2012-02	Crossing on a Southern Road (A Memorial for Marion Brown)		solo and trumpet	Wadada Leo Smith & TUMO	25:21
2012-02	Occupy the World for Life, Liberty and Justice		solo and trumpet	Wadada Leo Smith & TUMO	33:30
2012-02	Queen Hatshepsut		solo and trumpet	Wadada Leo Smith & TUMO	17:13
2012-02	The Bell – 2		solo and trumpet	Wadada Leo Smith & TUMO	15:57
2015-10-17 – 2015-10-19	A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke: A Cold Fire		trumpet	Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith	5:55
2015-10-17 – 2015-10-19	A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke: A Divine Courage		trumpet	Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith	9:13
2015-10-17 – 2015-10-19	A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke: All Becomes Alive		trumpet	Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith	9:09
2015-10-17 – 2015-10-19	A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke: Labyrinths		trumpet	Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith	6:43
2015-10-17 – 2015-10-19	A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke: Notes on Water		trumpet	Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith	7:58
2015-10-17 – 2015-10-19	A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke: The Empty Mind Receives		trumpet	Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith	4:55
2015-10-17 – 2015-10-19	A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke: Uncut Emeralds		trumpet	Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith	7:43
2015-10-17 – 2015-10-19	Marian Anderson		trumpet	Wadada Leo Smith	8:24
2015-10-17 – 2015-10-19	Passage		trumpet	Vijay Iyer	6:16
2016-05-05	Eileen Jackson Southern, 1920-2002: A Literary National Park		trumpet	Wadada Leo Smith	9:39
2016-05-05	New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718		trumpet	Wadada Leo Smith	20:58
2016-05-05	Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Parks: The Giant Forest, Great Canyon, Cliffs, Peaks, Waterfalls and Cave Systems 1890		trumpet	Wadada Leo Smith	6:46
2016-05-05	The Mississippi River: Dark and Deep Dreams Flow the River – A National Memorial Park c. 5000 BC		trumpet	Wadada Leo Smith	31:07
2016-05-05	Yellowstone: The First National Park and the Spirit of America – The Mountains, Super-Volcano Caldera and Its Ecosystem 1872		trumpet	Wadada Leo Smith	12:35
2016-05-05	Yosemite: The Glaciers, the Falls, the Wells and the Valley of Goodwill 1890		trumpet	Wadada Leo Smith	15:24
2017-07	Lebroba		trumpet	Andrew Cyrille, Wadada Leo Smith, Bill Frisell	5:44
2017-07	Pretty Beauty		trumpet	Andrew Cyrille, Wadada Leo Smith, Bill Frisell	6:25
2017-07	TGD		trumpet	Andrew Cyrille, Wadada Leo Smith, Bill Frisell	5:17
2017-07	Turiya: Alice Coltrane / Meditations and Dreams: Love		trumpet	Andrew Cyrille, Wadada Leo Smith, Bill Frisell	17:25
2017-07	Worried Woman		trumpet	Andrew Cyrille, Wadada Leo Smith, Bill Frisell	7:36
2021-05	Bypass Decay		trumpet	Qasim Naqvi, Wadada Leo Smith & Andrew Cyrille	4:50
2021-05	For D.F.		trumpet	Qasim Naqvi, Wadada Leo Smith & Andrew Cyrille	5:28
2021-05	Halide		trumpet	Qasim Naqvi, Wadada Leo Smith & Andrew Cyrille	2:58
2021-05	Organum		trumpet	Qasim Naqvi, Wadada Leo Smith & Andrew Cyrille	4:36
2021-05	Orion Arm		trumpet	Qasim Naqvi, Wadada Leo Smith & Andrew Cyrille	5:26
2021-05	Palaver		trumpet	Qasim Naqvi, Wadada Leo Smith & Andrew Cyrille	3:08
2021-05	Sadden Upbeat		trumpet	Qasim Naqvi, Wadada Leo Smith & Andrew Cyrille	3:46
2021-05	Spiritual Is 150		trumpet	Qasim Naqvi, Wadada Leo Smith & Andrew Cyrille	5:21
2021-05	The Curve		trumpet	Qasim Naqvi, Wadada Leo Smith & Andrew Cyrille	4:50
2021-05	Tympanic		trumpet	Qasim Naqvi, Wadada Leo Smith & Andrew Cyrille	2:46
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	produced
	A Celestial Bow, Stone Rivers and Silver Stars Overlayed in Red			Anthony Braxton and Wadada Leo Smith	9:37
	A} Pan-Sonic Fire Rhythms (For Ed Blackwell) B} Red Chrysanthemums C} Dark Purple Night On Crater Lake With A Clear View Of Saturn's Rings And Moons			Wadada Leo Smith	11:19
	Blue Green Gardens Of The Indigenous People Of The Great Plains			Wadada Leo Smith	23:29
	Composition No.314			Anthony Braxton and Wadada Leo Smith	15:13
	Composition No.315			Anthony Braxton and Wadada Leo Smith	16:39
	Composition No.316			Anthony Braxton and Wadada Leo Smith	28:40
	Demai			Wadada Leo Smith	6:23
	Goshawk			Anthony Braxton and Wadada Leo Smith	8:58
	Jupiter's Astro Waves			Wadada Leo Smith	13:14
	Saturn, Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Sweet Embrace			Anthony Braxton and Wadada Leo Smith	13:24
	Tawaf (Cycles 1 - 7)			Anthony Braxton and Wadada Leo Smith	11:48
	instruments
1978-07-14	The Phillip Wilson Trio Live: Fruits	Leo Smith	trumpet	The Phillip Wilson Trio
1978-07-14	The Phillip Wilson Trio Live: Fruits	Leo Smith	pocket trumpet	The Phillip Wilson Trio
	The Gardens of Harlem		trumpet	Clifford Thornton, The Jazz Composer's Orchestra
	composed
	A Celestial Bow, Stone Rivers and Silver Stars Overlayed in Red
	America’s National Parks
	Budding of a Rose	Leo Smith
	Crossing on a Southern Road
	Eileen Jackson Southern, 1920-2002: A Literary National Park
	Ending	Leo Smith
	Harmonium	Leo Smith
	Leo’s Tune	Leo Smith
	Mount Kilimanjaro
	Mutumishi	Leo Smith
	New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718
	Occupy the World for Life, Liberty and Justice
	Queen Hatshepsut
	Saturn, Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Sweet Embrace
	Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Parks: The Giant Forest, Great Canyon, Cliffs, Peaks, Waterfalls and Cave Systems 1890
	Silence
	String Quartet No. 1
	String Quartet No. 1: George Theophilius Walker
	String Quartet No. 1: Hale Smith
	String Quartet No. 1: Thomas Jefferson Anderson, Jr.
	String Quartet No. 1: Ulysses Simpson Kay
	String Quartet No. 2
	String Quartet No. 3 "Black Church: A First World Gathering of the Spirit"
	String Quartet No. 3 "Black Church: A First World Gathering of the Spirit": Movement 1
	String Quartet No. 3 "Black Church: A First World Gathering of the Spirit": Movement 2
	String Quartet No. 4
	String Quartet No. 4: Movement 1
	String Quartet No. 4: Movement 2
	String Quartet No. 4: Movement 3
	String Quartet No. 4: Movement 4
	String Quartet No. 4: Movement 5
	String Quartet No. 5 "In the Diaspora - Earthquakes and Sunrise Missions"
	String Quartet No. 6 "Taif: Prayer n the Garden of the Hijaz"
	String Quartet No. 7 "Ten Thousand Ceveus Peruvianus Amemevical (In rememberance of Dorothy Ann Stone)"
	String Quartet No. 8 "Opunta Humifusa"
	String Quartet No. 9
	String Quartet No. 9: Ma Rainey
	String Quartet No. 9: Marian Anderson
	String Quartet No. 10 "Angela Davis: Into the Morning Sunlight"
	String Quartet No. 11
	String Quartet No. 11: Alvin Singleton
	String Quartet No. 11: At the HEart's Core, Knowledge (For UCLA Music Library)
	String Quartet No. 11: Bessie Smith
	String Quartet No. 11: Kashala Kiom Smith
	String Quartet No. 11: Louis Armstrong
	String Quartet No. 11: Red Autumn's Gold (For Lucius G. Smith)
	String Quartet No. 11: Sarah Bell Brown-Smith
	String Quartet No. 11: Sarhanna Kabell Smith
	String Quartet No. 11: Shaikh Cerno Boka
	String Quartet No. 12
	String Quartet No. 12: Billie Holiday
	String Quartet No. 12: Pacifica
	Tawaf (Cycles 1 - 7)
	TGD
	The Bell (Early Wadada Leo Smith composition)
	The Bell – 2
	The Light on the Dalta
	The Mississippi River: Dark and Deep Dreams Flow the River – A National Memorial Park c. 5000 BC
	Turiya: Alice Coltrane Meditations and Dreams: Love
	Yellowstone: The First National Park and the Spirit of America – The Mountains, Super-Volcano Caldera and Its Ecosystem 1872
	Yosemite: The Glaciers, the Falls, the Wells and the Valley of Goodwill 1890
	wrote
	Gunz for Sale

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