Wadada Leo Smith - America's National Parks (2016) torrent

Cuneiform Records: RUNE 430/431
http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/smith.html

* Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet, director of the ensemble
* Anthony Davis : piano
* Ashley Walters : cello
* John Lindberg : bass
* Pheeroan akLaff : drums
* Jesse Gilbert : video artist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Davis_%28composer%29
http://www.ashleywalterscello.com/
http://www.johnlindberg.com/
http://www.pheeroanaklaff.com/
http://www.jessegilbert.net/

Recorded on May 5, 2016 and mixed by Nick Lloyd at Firehouse 12
Recording Studio, New Haven, Connecticut (CT), United States.


Reviews
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By Cormac Larkin
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/wadada-leo-smith-america-s-national-parks-album-review-stormy-studies-of-nature-environment-and-ownership-1.2824192

Trumpeter, composer and thought-provoker Wadada Leo Smith likes to blur the
lines between composition and improvisation, even inventing his own notation
system, Ankhrasmation, to better communicate his intentions. This latest work
for his Golden Quintet – trumpet, piano, cello, bass and drums – is a starkly
original six-part suite about the US National Parks Service, founded 100 years
ago this year. But anyone expecting sweeping cinematic scores summoning the
grandeur of nature will be barking up the wrong sequoia. Smith’s turbulent,
unsettling compositions, which artfully exploit his group’s unusual
instrumental combination, are more about issues of ownership and the future of
the planet, which leaves you admiring Smith’s fierce sense of social justice
(as well as his darkly ruminative trumpet-playing) and wondering what on earth
has happened to all the other protest musicians?

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By Thom Jurek
http://www.allmusic.com/album/americas-national-parks-mw0002975978

By Stef
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2016/12/wadada-leo-smith-americas-national.html

By Derek Taylor

By Dan McClenaghan
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/wadada-leo-smith-americas-national-parks-wadada-leo-smith-cuneiform-records-review-by-dan-mcclenaghan.php

By Karl Ackermann
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/americas-national-parks-wadada-leo-smith-cuneiform-records-review-by-karl-ackermann.php

By Troy Collins
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/americas-national-parks-wadada-leo-smith-cuneiform-records-review-by-troy-collins.php

Dionizy Piątkowski (pl)
http://jazz.pl/wadada-leo-smith-americas-national-parks-cuneiform-records/

Da Alberto Bazzurro (it)
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/americas-national-parks-wadada-leo-smith-cuneiform-records-review-by-alberto-bazzurro.php
http://italia.allaboutjazz.com/wadada-leo-smith-americas-national-parks/

Par Thierry Giard (fr)
http://www.culturejazz.fr/spip.php?article3003#wls

Por Héctor Martín (es)
http://www.cancionaquemarropa.es/2016/11/americas-national-parks-wadada-leo-smith/

Por Sergio Piccirilli (es)
http://elintruso.com/2016/12/21/wadada-leo-smith-americas-national-parks/