Released 2009 Length 53:10 Release date 2009 Label Tzadik Records | Recorded October, 2008 Artist Wadada Leo Smith Producer Wadada Leo Smith Genre Jazz | |
Studio Orange Music, West Orange, New Jersey Similar America's National Parks, Ten Freedom Summers, Golden Hearts Remembrance, Wisdom in Time, Divine Love | ||
America is an album by American jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and drummer Jack DeJohnette which was recorded in 2008 and released on Tzadik Records. It was their first duo recording, a collaboration originally proposed to ECM in 1979 and rejected.
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Reception
In his review for AllMusic, Phil Freeman states "The austere stillness at the heart of Smith's music is anchored and emphasized by DeJohnette's powerful mastery of the drum kit, adding up to a record that deserves to be placed alongside Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell's Mu sessions in the avant-jazz pantheon."
The All About Jazz review by Troy Collins notes "Their interplay is measured and precise, neither overwrought nor timid, lending America an air of regal austerity—the sound of two masters engaged in an intimate musical conversation."
Track listing
All compositions by Wadada Leo Smith- "America Parts 1,2,3" - 14:23
- "Red Trumpet" - 7:53
- "John Brown's Fort" - 5:59
- "Ed Blackwell, The Blue Mountain Sun Drummer" - 10:13
- "Rabia's Unconditional Love, a Spiritual Mystery of the Heart" - 7:08
- "The Masnavi: The Falcon and the Owls" - 7:34