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Released
  
1993

Length
  
52:16

Artist
  
Wadada Leo Smith

Producer
  
Steve Lake

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
October 1992

Kulture Jazz (1992)
  
Tao-Njia (1996)

Release date
  
1993

Label
  
ECM Records

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Similar
  
Wadada Leo Smith albums, Jazz albums

Kulture Jazz is an album by American jazz trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith recorded in 1993 and released on the ECM label.

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Reception

The Allmusic review by Eugene Chadbourne states "The ECM folks do much better by Wadada Leo Smith than ever before with this solo recording, a true masterwork of its kind and one of the purest, most enlightening demonstrations of the connected natures of folk, blues, jazz, and creative music".

Track listing

All compositions by Wadada Leo Smith
  1. "Don't You Remember?" - 3:42
  2. "Kulture of Jazz" - 5:33
  3. "Song of Humanity (Kanto Pri Homaro)" - 3:36
  4. "Fire-Sticks, Chrysanthemums and Moonlight (For Harumi)" - 3:42
  5. "Seven Rings of Light in the Hola Trinity" - 2:26
  6. "Louis Armstrong Counterpointing" - 2:43
  7. "Albert Ayler in a Spiritual Light" - 4:44
  8. "The Kemet Omega Reigns (For Billie Holiday)" - 5:02
  9. "Love Supreme (For John Coltrane)" - 3:56
  10. "Mississippi Delta Sunrise (For Bobbie)" - 3:55
  11. "Mother: Sarah Brown-Smith-Wallace (1920-92)" - 4:06
  12. "The Healer's Voyage on the Sacred River (For Ayl Kwel Armah)" - 3:46
  13. "Uprising (For Jessie and Yvonne)" - 5:05
  • Recorded at Hardstudios in Winterthur, Switzerland in October 1992

    • Personnel

  • Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet, flugelhorn, koto, mbira, harmonica, bamboo notch flute, percussion, vocals

    • Songs

    1Don't You Remember?3:45
    2Kulture Of Jazz5:37
    3Song Of Humanity (Kanto Pri Homaro)3:46

    References

    Kulture Jazz Wikipedia
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