{"id":1550,"date":"2008-12-12T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2008-12-12T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T09:05:00","slug":"cd_wadada_leo_smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/12\/cd_wadada_leo_smith\/","title":{"rendered":"CD: Wadada Leo Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wadada Leo Smith&#8217;s Golden Quartet<\/strong>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FTabligh-Wadada-Leo-Smith%2Fdp%2FB00168ZI7U&amp;tag=rifftidougram-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\" target=\"_blank\">Tabligh<\/a><\/em>, (Cuneiform). &#8221;\u00a0stalwart of the avant garde for<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/Wadada.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wadada.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2009\/01\/Wadada-thumb-120x120-2980.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/span>&#8221;\u00a0nearly four decades, Smith continues at the head of the pack in free jazz. In this set of four moody, barely-structured pieces, the trumpeter frequently evokes late-period Miles Davis. He sometimes takes the horn below its natural range to explore pedal-tone territory that Davis never visited. Pianist Vijay Iyer, bassist John Lindberg and drummer Shannon Jackson have developed an uncanny ability to react to Smith&#8217;s flights of unrestrained imagination. The sidemen also have impressive solo moments. Iyer&#8217;s virtuosic turns are notable. On the long title track, the four interact with astonishing energy and empathy. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wadada Leo Smith&#8217;s Golden Quartet, Tabligh, (Cuneiform). &#8221;\u00a0stalwart of the avant garde for&#8221;\u00a0nearly four decades, Smith continues at the head of the pack in free jazz. In this set of four moody, barely-structured pieces, the trumpeter frequently evokes late-period Miles Davis. He sometimes takes the horn below its natural range to explore pedal-tone territory that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}