The 13-minute aFmie-Poem DancE 3 on flugelhornĪnd the eight-minute Ogotommeli - Dogon Sage on gamelan percussion

In the seven-minute Improvisations No 4 for found percussion and theġ2-minute Creative Music 1 for trumpet, flugelhorn and 'mobile sounds'. By employing other sound-producing devicesīesides the trumpet, he created eerie soundscapes His musical vision first surfaced in the six ascetic solo 'multi-improvisations' ofĬreative Music 1 (december 1971). Music as a vehicle, not as a goal as a journey, not as a destination. ('ahkreanvention' for scoring sound, rhythm and silence),īut, unlike anyone else in that school, Smith viewed Like Anthony Braxton, Smith developed his own musical theory and his own Time to join the 'creative' bandwagon and found the Creative ConstructionĬompany with saxophonist Anthony Braxton and violinist Leroy Jenkins.īut his persona was fundamentally different from the 'scientists' of the Mississippi-born trumpeter Leo Smith (1941) moved to Chicago in 1967, in Pure Love - An Oratorio of Seven Songs (2019), 7/10 Solo - Reflections And Meditations on Monk (2015), 5/10Ĭosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (2015), 7.5/10

Saturn Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Sweet Embrace (2003), 5/10 The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer (1986), 5/10įour Meditations/ Sound Geometries (2003), 6/10 Procession of the Great Ancestry (1983), 5.5/10 Touch the Earth Break the Shells (1981), 6/10 ( Copyright © 2006 Piero Scaruffi | Terms of use) Leo Smith: biography, discography, review, ratings

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