DIGIPACK EDITION
Four new compositions by Wadada Leo Smith in tribute to past masters of creative music, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Ronald Shannon Jackson and Billie Holiday, as well as the title composition ”Najwa” in remembrance of a love lost.
PERSONNEL:
- WADADA LEO SMITH, trumpet
- MICHAEL GREGORY JACKSON, guitars
- HENRY KAISER, guitars
- BRANDON ROSS, giutars
- LAMAR SMITH, guitars
- BILL LASWELL, electric bass
- PHEEROAN AkLAFF, drums
- ADAM RUDOLPH, percussion
TRACKS:
- 01. Ornette Coleman’s Harmolodic Sonic Hierographic Forms: A Resonance Change in the Millennium
- 02. Ohnedaruth John Coltrane: The Master of Kosmic Music and His Spirituality in a Love Supreme
- 03. Najwa
- 04. Ronald Shannon Jackson: The Master of Symphonic Drumming and Multi-Sonic Rhythms, Inscriptions of a Rare Beauty
- 05. The Empress, Lady Day: In a Rainbow Garden, with Yellow-Gold Hot Springs, Surrounded by Exotic Plants and Flowers