Time to start the new year. Legendary trumpeter and jazz great, runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize, winner, Guggenheim Fellowship winner, NEA Jazz Masters recipient, Wadada Leo Smith and one of the greatest authorities on improvised music, educator, our friend, guitarist, and double bassist Joe Morris together!
The album is a recording of a concert the two artists gave earlier this past year, on 12 February, during the famous ImprovisatioNOW concert series at Real Art Ways in Hartford, where audiences there can hear some of the most inspiring musicians in the American impro scene. Wadada is known to have played trumpet, Joe Morris on guitar. The result then was almost 50 minutes of fully improvised music, framed by five tracks.
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released February 29, 2024
WADADA LEO SMITH & JOE MORRIS
EARTH’S FREQUENCIES
1. Underground Discovery 16.40
2. Sound And Sonic Shapes 12.28
3. Earth’s Frequencies 10.12
4. Monk Reflections Double Exposure 6.39
5. March Opus M. Rainey 3.54
Total Time: 49.56
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Joe Morris - Guitar
Recorded live in concert on February 12, 2023, at Real Art Ways Hartford CT
Engineered, mixed, and mastered by Nick Lloyd at Firehouse 12 Studios New Haven CT
Produced by Joe Morris
Photo: Jamie Saft
Front cover drawing: Helena Leganowicz
Graphic Design: Anna Kulikowska
Executive Producer: Maciej Karłowski
All tracks Wadada Leo Smith (Kiom music ASCAP. Administrated by A-train Entertainment) and Joe Morris (Riti pub ASCAP
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On "Painters Winter", William Parker and company explore some fascinating musical spaces, a set of songs that stretch out and expand in a way that ably demonstrates both the players' impressive skills and Parker's exceptional gifts as a composer. rikm
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Incredibly talented young group! They have achieved a perfect blend of Native American music with jazz. I highly recommend seeing/hearing them live! ccselavy
Carving angular, post-rock soundscapes with fuzzy guitars and lo-fi electronics, and blending with a hint of Brazil. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 29, 2014
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There are so many reasons to love the work of William Parker and those he chooses to play with, and here it's not only his virtuosity on display, but his gracious heart and the bounty of talent accompanying him to fulfill this work of melody, soul, and poetry executed with precision and grace. Another masterstroke from the master. Why would it be any other way? ps0m