Ishmael Wadada

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Although Wadada Leo Smith’s music was, in the words of American critic Adam Shatz, “less encumbered by traditional song forms”, it evoked a “pastoral modernism: spacious, serene, and in no hurry to reach its destination”. (Tom Beetz)

Bridging the black Atlantic in jazz

The collaboration between Thomas Mapfumo and Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, broke new ground and should have grown cult status

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