Wadada Leo Smith
The Great Lakes Suite (TUM CD 041-2)
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The Great Lakes Suite
Wadada Leo Smith
Tum Records
6430015280410
TUM 144237
TUM CD 041-2
JAZZ
2
2-CD SET DIGIPACK EDITION
Two of the most enduring voices avant-garde jazz belong to trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and reedman Henry Threadgill. Smith's The Great Lakes Suites, six of his distinctive compositions on a two CD set, teams the two icons inside the equilateral quartet that includes drummer Jack DeJohnette and bassist John Lindberg. It sounds like a dream team, and it is. DeJohnette has played on Smith's Golden Quartet, Lindberg has joined the trumpeter in a variety of contexts, groups large and small. Threadgill is new to the fold.
This crew of free jazz veterans—all in their seventies with the exception of the youngster, the mid-fiftiesh Lindberg—have created, under Wadada Leo Smith's leadership, one of the freshest, most original sets of the new millennium.
PERSONNEL:
- WADADA LEO SMITH, trumpet
- HENRY THREADGILL, alto sax
- JOHN LINBERG, bass
- JACK DeJOHNETTE, drums
CD 1:
- 01 Lake Michigan
- 02 Lake Ontario
- 03 Lake Superio
CD 2:
- 04 Lake Huron
- 05 Lake Erie
- 06 Lake St. Clairr
