Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet - Tabligh (2008)
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Cuneiform Records: Rune 270 http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/smith.html http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/emails/wls-email-oct2010.html http://www.wadadaleosmith.com/pages/tabligh.html * Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet * Vijay Iyer: piano, Fender Rhodes, synthesizer * John Lindberg: bass * Shannon Jackson: drums http://www.wadadaleosmith.com/ http://www.vijay-iyer.com/ http://www.johnlindberg.com/ http://www.ronaldshannonjackson.com/ Recorded live at RedCat in Los Angeles, CA at the CalArts Creative Music Festival in 2005 (November 17). http://www.redcat.org/event/creative-music-festival-1 http://music.calarts.edu/ Reviews ~~~~~~~ By Thom Jurek http://www.allmusic.com/album/tabligh-mw0000790830 Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith remains as ambitious and creative as ever. Smith's Golden Quartet was formed -- and its membership has shifted -- to foster a particular kind of dynamic musical engagement. For this date, recorded at the RedCat (sic) in Los Angeles, Smith called upon the talents of pianist and keyboardist Vijay Iyer, bassist John Lindberg, and drummer Shannon Jackson. The set is comprised of four long pieces that run from eight-and-a-half minutes to over 24. "Rosa Parks," a 16-minute piece, opens the CD. It reflects the ongoing influence of Miles Davis' electric work on Smith. A lone trumpet is heard at the outset, sparse, single-note phrases played with great restraint, but muscularity too. Iyer's Fender Rhodes enters very slowly and skeletally at first, coloring Smith's lines only slightly. His synth provides a "breathing" atmospheric sound under the Rhodes. Jackson enters with cymbals with Lindberg playing arco. The halting, evolving melody begins to change shape a few minutes in and the band comes together behind Jackson's shimmering yet propulsive beat. They engage as an ensemble from the jump, wah-wah pedals on the bass, the more strident pronouncements of the Rhodes and the dancing trapkit create a palette for Smith to enter and play off of, winding them around him and his trademark phrasing playing through them. The piece ends in a complete different place than it began. "DeJohnette," named for the drummer (a founding member of this band) comes at improvisation from a different angle. Iyer is on grand piano, and of course Jackson laying down beats, breaks, and stuttering stops and angles for the band to play off of. He is a consummate rhythm master. The pianist and Lindberg engage freely in improvisation-building intensity before Smith enters at about the four-minute mark, blowing hard. [...] -- By Stef http://www.freejazzblog.org/2008/05/wadada-leo-smiths-golden-quartet.html By Jason Bivins http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/4516 By Troy Collins http://www.allaboutjazz.com/tabligh-wadada-leo-smith-cuneiform-records-review-by-troy-collins.php Par Guillaume Belhomme (fr) http://www.lesinrocks.com/musique/critique-album/tabligh/ Por Sergio Piccirilli (es) http://elintruso.com/2008/09/01/wadada-leo-smiths-golden-quartet-tabligh/