{"id":4122,"date":"2012-10-19T22:05:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T05:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=4122"},"modified":"2012-10-19T22:22:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T05:22:52","slug":"cd-wadada-leo-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/10\/cd-wadada-leo-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"CD: Wadada Leo Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wadada Leo Smith<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ten-Freedom-Summers-Wadada-Smith\/dp\/B007JZFX9C\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Ten Freedom Summers<\/em><\/a> (Cuneiform)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Wadada-Cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Wadada-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Wadada Cover\" width=\"110\" height=\"110\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Wadada-Cover.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Wadada-Cover-70x70.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 110px) 100vw, 110px\" \/><\/a>The trumpeter and composer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s four-disc work is a monument to Black Americans\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 struggles for freedom. The names of the 19 movements summon up key episodes in the story, among them \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dred Scott,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Thurgood Marshall and Brown vs. Board of Education\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Freedom Riders Ride.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d With his free jazz quintet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unfettered improvisation Smith blends skilled writing, including passages for a nine-piece ensemble of strings and winds. The tempers of the work range from tumult in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dred Scott\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to gauzy reflection in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1964.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Titles and themes aside, the music, <em>as music<\/em>, is potent and satisfying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wadada Leo Smith: Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform) The trumpeter and composer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s four-disc work is a monument to Black Americans\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 struggles for freedom. The names of the 19 movements summon up key episodes in the story, among them \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dred Scott,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Thurgood Marshall and Brown vs. Board of Education\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Freedom Riders Ride.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d With his free [&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-4122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122","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=4122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}