Rastafari (album)

Rastafari
Studio album by Wadada Leo Smith
Released 1983
Recorded June 12, 1983
McClear Place Studios, Toronto
Genre Jazz
Length 39:41
Label Sackville
Producer Bill Smith
Wadada Leo Smith chronology
Procession of the Great Ancestry (1989) Rastafari
(1983)		 The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer
(1986)

Rastafari is an album by American jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith with the Bill Smith ensemble, which was released in 1983 on the Canadian Sackville label. The trumpeter considers the recording a cooperative effort, it is Bill Smith, co-founder of Sackville and producer of the album, who made it a "Leo Smith record".[1] It was reissued on CD in 2003 with new artwork by Boxholder.[2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[4]

In his review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow states "The playing by these adventurous musicians is advanced and quite free on the four group originals, and all five players share equally in the creation of these fresh explorations."[3]

Track listing

  1. "Rastafari" (Wadada Leo Smith) - 7:30
  2. "Rituals" (Bill Smith) - 11:56
  3. "Madder Lake" (David Prentice) - 11:05
  4. "Little Bits" (Bill Smith) - 9:10

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Original liner notes by Bill Shoemaker
  2. ↑ Rastafari at Wadada Leo Smith
  3. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Wadada Leo Smith - Rastafari: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
  4. ↑ Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 183. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
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