Waddada Leo Smith

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From Margaret Davis and The Braxton List:

For those in the New York area, Wadada Leo Smith will play trumpet and processed sound with videographer Nicole Jaquis on the first half of a double bill with the Leroy Jenkins World Quartet (Jin Hi Kim, Rmesh Misra, Yacouba Sissoko) in New York City on the 2Oth of May at the Community Church of New York, 4O East 35th St. betw. Madison & Park Ave's starting at 8 p.m. It's an AACM New York Chapter presentation, information 212-594-7149.

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On Friday, April 29, 2005 at 7:30 PM, Franz Fuchs at f.fuchs@gmx.net wrote:

JAZZ NOTES

Creating music that's never the same twice

By Bill Beuttler, Globe Correspondent | April 29, 2005

The last time the avant-garde trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith

performed in Boston was 17 years ago, when he played a 1988 duet set

with the late, great drummer Ed Blackwell. So maybe it's fitting that

his return visit tomorrow night, for a Boston Creative Music Alliance

concert at the Institute of Contemporary Art, will involve only Smith

and percussion as well.

This time around, though, the percussion will come from the laptop

computer of Ikue Mori, best known for her work with cutting-edge types

such as Arto Lindsay and John Zorn. And Smith, too, will be accessing

electronic effects via his horn.

Opportunities to hear what they sound like together are rare. Smith and

Mori have played a handful of concerts in New York, and one more apiece

in Portugal and Bosnia. And Mori appears on two duet tracks on Smith's

CD ''Luminous Axis," which came out in 2002 on Zorn's Tzadik label.

''It does have an electronic feel to it," says Smith, 63, by phone from

his California home. ''But I would say it's much warmer than most

electronic music. And it's creative, meaning that when we step on the

stage we don't have a note in mind, we don't have a rhythm in mind. All

we have in mind is that we're going to take this score, or we're going

make a collaborative improvisation, and we go from there."

More: http://makeashorterlink.com/?G24261EFA

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boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2005/04/29/creating_music_thats_ne

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