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WADADA LEO SMITH
Announces the Program for his 2015 Residency @ The Stone, NYC April 21 through April 26, 2015 a five day celebration of Smith's 44 Year Career: A Retrospective & The A.A.C.M. 50th Anniversary with Twelve Ensembles + Video Creative music is the oldest music on the planet. It doesn’t need to be revolutionized or updated. www.wadadaleosmith.com The Stone, New York City John Zorn's venue for creative music Located at the center of Avenue C and 2nd Street http://www.thestonenyc.com Wadada Leo Smith Residency April 21 through April 26, 2015 All Shows: $20 - STRUCTURE A Art has known properties and unknown properties, but the unknown properties must be bigger than the known properties. It’s a monstrous world for those people who want to be artists but are afraid to be so. - TUESDAY, APRIL 21 8:00pm Creative Music 1: Wadada Leo Smith trumpet + Sonic River: Wadada Leo Smith trumpet John Zorn alto saxophone George Lewis - trombone 10:00pm Divine Love: Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Bobby Naughton - vibraharp Dwight Andrews - reeds - You have to radicalize your art at every stage of your life, in every stage of your development. - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 7:00pm Wadada Leo Smith Talks… … about his Music Philosophy and Language 8:00pm The Nile: Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Hardedge sound design 10:00pm Tastalun: Wadada Leo Smith trumpet Graham Haynes - cornet Ted Daniel trumpet STRUCTURE B Art is about humanism, not about protectionism. - THURSDAY, APRIL 23 8:00pm Taif: Prayer In The Garden of The Hijaz, String Quartet No. 6 The Secret Quartet: Jennifer Choi violin Neil Dufallo - violin Yves Dharamraj - cello Lev Zhurbin - viola + Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Aruán Ortiz - piano 10:00pm The Black Hole / Silence: Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Bill Laswell electric bass Yuko Fujiyama piano Henry Kaiser electric guitar Hardedge sound design - Art is about people who have something inside them that’s greater than the outside world, and by getting their art out of themselves they make the outside world greater. - FRIDAY, APRIL 24 8:00pm Mbira: Dark Lady of the Sonnets Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Min Xiao Fen pipa Pheeroan akLaff - drums 10:00pm Celebratory: Ornette - Coltrane - Shannon: Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Brandon Ross electric guitar Lamar Smith electric guitar Bill Laswell electric bass Pheeroan akLaff - drums STRUCTURE C When artists want to be accepted, they’ve already lost their art. - SATURDAY, APRIL 25 8:00pm The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer: Wadada Leo Smith trumpet Mauro Refosco - percussion 10:00pm Ten Freedom Summers: The Golden Quartet: Wadada Leo Smith trumpet Anthony Davis - piano John Lindberg bass Pheeroan akLaff - drums + Jesse Gilbert - video - Art is not for everybody, although it’s made to be for everybody. It celebrates uniqueness, nothing else. - SUNDAY, APRIL 26 7:00pm Wadada Leo Smith Talks… … about his Music Philosophy and Language 8:00pm The Bell: Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet Aruán Ortiz - piano William Parker - bass Adam Rudolph percussion 10:00pm America’s Third Century Spiritual Awakening / The Year of The Elephant: The Golden Quintet (15 years: Retrospective): Wadada Leo Smith trumpet Anthony Davis - piano John Lindberg bass Pheeroan akLaff - drums Adam Rudolph percussion + Jesse Gilbert - video The Program for Wadada Leo Smith's Residency at The Stone and all Program Notes above by Wadada Leo Smith, 2015. - WADADA LEO SMITH RECORDINGS Over the course of his impressive 44 year career, Wadada Leo Smith has released dozens of recordings on numerous labels from around the world, including John Zorn's Tzadik label and the TUM label in Finland. For more information on his extensive recorded oeuvre, please visit his website: www.wadadaleosmith.com
for more information about Wadada Leo Smith Recordings on Cuneiform: http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/smith.html & http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/kaisersmith.html
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