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Wadada Leo Smith

American jazz trumpeter and composer

Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (born December 18, 1941) is an American trumpeter and composer, working primarily in the field of creative music. He was one of three finalists for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music for Ten Freedom Summers, released on May 22, 2012.

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Works

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  • A Celestial Bow, Stone Rivers and Silver Stars Overlayed in Red
  • Africana World
  • Agpaitic
  • America, Parts 1, 2 & 3
  • America’s National Parks
  • Arfvedsonite
  • Bardsdale
  • Bardsdale: 1. Evening: Dusk, Luminous Streaks Of Magenta Blues
  • Bardsdale: 2. Early Morning: A Deep Rain In A Diamond-Laden Valley
  • Bardsdale: 3. Mid-day: The Heat That's In The Sunrays
  • Budding of a Rose
  • Buzzsaw: The Myth of a Free Press
  • Celestial Weather Suite: Cyclone
  • Celestial Weather Suite: Hurricane
  • Celestial Weather Suite: Icy Fog
  • Celestial Weather Suite: Tornado
  • Celestial Weather Suite: Typhoon
  • Courage to Dissent, Forces for Change
  • Crossing on a Southern Road
  • Debts of Honor
  • Democracy
  • Diamondback Serpent in a House Full of Water and Still Rising
  • Dred Scott: 1857
  • Ed Blackwell, the Blue Mountain Sun Drummer
  • Eileen Jackson Southern, 1920-2002: A Literary National Park
  • Emmett Till: Defiant, Fearless
  • Ending
  • Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1964
  • Freedom Summer: Voter Registration, Acts of Compassion and Empowerment, 1964
  • Gneiss
  • Grand Oak Trees At Dawn
  • Harmonium
  • Janus Face
  • John Brown's Fort
  • John F. Kennedy's New Frontier and the Space Age, 1960
  • Lake Biwa; A Fullmoon of Purewater Gold
  • Leo’s Tune
  • Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Malachi Favors Maghostut -- A Monarch Of Creative Music: Part I
  • Malachi Favors Maghostut -- A Monarch Of Creative Music: Part II
  • Malik Al Shabazz and the People of the Shahada
  • Martin Luther King, Jr: Memphis, the Prophecy
  • Medgar Evers: A Love-Voice of a Thousand Years' Journey for Liberty and Justice
  • Mount Kilimanjaro
  • Mutumishi
  • New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718
  • Occupy the World for Life, Liberty and Justice
  • Queen Hatshepsut
  • Rabi'a's Unconditional Love, a Spiritual Mystery of the Heart
  • Red Trumpet
  • Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 381 Days
  • Sanai’s Enclosed Garden of the Truth
  • Saturn, Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Sweet Embrace
  • September 11th, 2001: A Memorial
  • Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Parks: The Giant Forest, Great Canyon, Cliffs, Peaks, Waterfalls and Cave Systems 1890
  • Silence
  • String Quartet No. 1
  • String Quartet No. 10 "Angela Davis: Into the Morning Sunlight"
  • String Quartet No. 11
  • String Quartet No. 11: Alvin Singleton
  • String Quartet No. 11: At the HEart's Core, Knowledge (For UCLA Music Library)
  • String Quartet No. 11: Bessie Smith
  • String Quartet No. 11: Kashala Kiom Smith
  • String Quartet No. 11: Louis Armstrong
  • String Quartet No. 11: Red Autumn's Gold (For Lucius G. Smith)
  • String Quartet No. 11: Sarah Bell Brown-Smith
  • String Quartet No. 11: Sarhanna Kabell Smith
  • String Quartet No. 11: Shaikh Cerno Boka
  • String Quartet No. 12
  • String Quartet No. 12: Billie Holiday
  • String Quartet No. 12: Pacifica
  • String Quartet No. 1: George Theophilius Walker
  • String Quartet No. 1: Hale Smith
  • String Quartet No. 1: Thomas Jefferson Anderson, Jr.
  • String Quartet No. 1: Ulysses Simpson Kay
  • String Quartet No. 2
  • String Quartet No. 3 "Black Church: A First World Gathering of the Spirit"
  • String Quartet No. 3 "Black Church: A First World Gathering of the Spirit": Movement 1
  • String Quartet No. 3 "Black Church: A First World Gathering of the Spirit": Movement 2
  • String Quartet No. 4
  • String Quartet No. 4: Movement 1
  • String Quartet No. 4: Movement 2
  • String Quartet No. 4: Movement 3
  • String Quartet No. 4: Movement 4
  • String Quartet No. 4: Movement 5
  • String Quartet No. 5 "In the Diaspora - Earthquakes and Sunrise Missions"
  • String Quartet No. 6 "Taif: Prayer n the Garden of the Hijaz"
  • String Quartet No. 7 "Ten Thousand Ceveus Peruvianus Amemevical (In rememberance of Dorothy Ann Stone)"
  • String Quartet No. 8 "Opunta Humifusa"
  • String Quartet No. 9
  • String Quartet No. 9: Ma Rainey
  • String Quartet No. 9: Marian Anderson
  • TGD
  • Tawaf (Cycles 1 - 7)
  • Ten Freedom Summers
  • Ten Freedom Summers: First Collection: Defining Moments in America
  • Ten Freedom Summers: Second Collection: What is Democracy?
  • Ten Freedom Summers: Third Collection: Ten Freedom Summers
  • The Bell
  • The Bell – 2
  • The D.C. Wall: A War Memorial for All Times
  • The Freedom Riders Ride
  • The Light on the Dalta
  • The Little Rock Nine: A Force for Desegregation in Education, 1957
  • The Masnavi: the Falcon and the Owls
  • The Mississippi River: Dark and Deep Dreams Flow the River – A National Memorial Park c. 5000 BC
  • Third St. Stomp
  • Thurgood Marshall and Brown Vs. Board of Education: A Dream of Equal Education, 1954
  • Tragic Wisdom
  • Turiya: Alice Coltrane Meditations and Dreams: Love
  • U.B.P.
  • Yellowstone: The First National Park and the Spirit of America – The Mountains, Super-Volcano Caldera and Its Ecosystem 1872
  • Yosemite: The Glaciers, the Falls, the Wells and the Valley of Goodwill 1890