Smith,Wadada Leo Emerald Duets CD

(5-CD set) The Emerald Duets is a crowning achievement among Wadada Leo Smith's many recorded duo collaborations with drummers/percussionists that have previously featured such creative giants as Ed Blackwell, Jack DeJohnette, Milford Graves (TUM BOX 003), Louis Moholo-Moholo (TUM CD 029) and G?nter Sommer, among others. The Emerald Duets features four master drummers who have each, in their own unique fashion, contributed to the way modern drumming has developed in the past six decades and how it is now perceived. Pheeroan akLaff, Andrew Cyrille and Han Bennink are each featured on one disc and Jack DeJohnette on two discs, including Smith's five-part composition "Paradise: The Gardens and Fountains" that fills the fifth disc of this boxed set in it's entirety. The sessions with akLaff, Cyrille and DeJohnette mostly feature compositions by Wadada Leo Smith, including three very different versions of Smith's powerful statement for the protection of freedom and democracy, "The Patriot Act, Unconstitutional and a Force that Destroys Democracy." The session with Bennink includes a combination of Smith's compositions and collectively created tracks.

1. Litanies, Prayers and Meditations 2. The Prayer (For Keith Jarrett) 3. First Meditation from the Heart: The Beauty, the Beloved 4. The Uyghur in Xinjiang, China 5. A Sonic Expression (Wadada Leo Smith) 6. Part 1 7. Part 2 8. Part 3 9. Part 4 10. A Sonic Litany on Peace 11. The Patriot Act, Unconstitutional and a Force That Destroys Democracy 12. A Sonic Litany on Justice 13. Second Meditation from the Heart: The Beloved, the Beauty 14. Havana, Cuba 15. The Patriot Act, Unconstitutional and a Force That Destroys Democracy 16. Havana, the Maghrib Prayer and Reflections 17. Ilhan Omar 18. Mongezi Feza 19. Jeanne Lee: In a Jupiter Mood 20. Donald Ayler: The Master of the Sound and Energy Forms 21. A Rainbow Sonic Ark for Tomasz Ludwik Stanko (1942-2018 22. Haiti, An Independent Nation in 1804 But Not Recognized By Britain, France, Germany, the United States and Others: A Designed Tragedy 23. Mysterious Sonic Fields 24. Chrysanthemum Flowers on a Mountaintop (For Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson) 25. Largo: A Mysterious Love Sonic (For Shana Redmond and Her Famil) 26. Louis Armstrong in New York City and Accra, Ghana 27. Albert Einstein: Particles of Light, a Study in Perception 28. Ornette Coleman at the World's Fair of Science and Art in Fort Worth, Texas 29. The Call - a Duet Between Joseph "King" Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton 30. Light Garden in a Dream-Space, a Remembrance of Shaba of Ethiopia 31. Han Bennink on Fifth Avenue, NYC 32. Johnny Dyani, the Artist Who Imagined a New South Africa. a Celebration 33. Wadada Leo Smith ; Jack Dejohnette: Freedom Summer, the Legacysandalwood and Sage 34. Freedom Summer 35. Meditation: A Sonic Circle of Double Piano Resonances 36. The Patriot Act, Unconstitutional and a Force That Destroys Democracy 37. Silence, Quietness and Very Still 38. Paradise: The Gardens and Fountains 39. Paradise: The Gardens and Fountains 40. Part I - the River of Abundance 41. Part II - the Fountain of Tasnim 42. Part III - the Supreme Fountain 43. Part IV - Exaltation and Musk 44. Part V - Pomegranates and Herbal Teas