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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)
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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

  • Percy Zvomuya
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