String Quartets Nos. 1 - 12
Wadada Leo Smith
Year: 2022
Genre: Concert
Format: FLAC
Media: Digital Only
Personnel
Wadada Leo Smith
Leader, Trumpet
Tracks
| # | Title | Artist | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disc 1 of 7 | |||
| 1 | String Quartet No. 1, Movement 1 "Ulysses Simpson Key" | 7:14 | |
| 2 | String Quartet No. 1, Movement 2 "Thomas Jefferson Anderson, Jr." | 4:15 | |
| 3 | String Quartet No. 1, Movement 3 "Hale Smith" | 7:46 | |
| 4 | String Quartet No. 1, Movement 4 "George Theophilus Walker" | 11:51 | |
| 5 | String Quartet No. 2 | 16:52 | |
| Disc 2 of 7 | |||
| 1 | String Quartet No. 3, Movement 1 | 11:13 | |
| 2 | String Quartet No. 3, Movement 2 | 10:05 | |
| 3 | String Quartet No. 4, Movement 1 | 6:46 | |
| 4 | String Quartet No. 4, Movement 2 | 6:41 | |
| 5 | String Quartet No. 4, Movement 3 | 11:48 | |
| 6 | String Quartet No. 4, Movement 4 | 2:39 | |
| 7 | String Quartet No. 4, Movement 5 | 11:09 | |
| Disc 3 of 7 | |||
| 1 | String Quartet No. 5 "in the Diaspora - Earthquakes and Sunrise Missions" (Dedicated to Haki R. Madhubuti) | 17:22 | |
| 2 | String Quartet No. 6 "Taif Prayer in the Garden of the Hijaz" | 23:00 | |
| 3 | String Quartet No. 7 "Ten Thousand Ceveus Peruvianus Amemevical" (in Remembrance of Dorothy Ann Stone) | 14:38 | |
| Disc 4 of 7 | |||
| 1 | String Quartet No. 8 "Opuntia Humifusa" | 21:12 | |
| 2 | String Quartet No. 9, Movement 1 "Ma Rainey" | 6:25 | |
| 3 | String Quartet No. 9, Movement 2 "Marian Anderson" | 10:15 | |
| 4 | String Quartet No. 10 "Angela Davis - Into the Morning Sunlight" | 13:47 | |
| Disc 5 of 7 | |||
| 1 | String Quartet No. 11, Movement 1 "Sheikh Cerno Boka" | 13:41 | |
| 2 | String Quartet No. 11, Movement 2 "Louis Armstrong" | 8:55 | |
| 3 | String Quartet No. 11, Movement 3 "Sarah Bell Brown-Smith" | 10:00 | |
| 4 | String Quartet No. 11, Movement 4 "Kashala Kiom Smith" | 12:30 | |
| 5 | String Quartet No. 11, Movement 5 "at the Heart's Core, Knowledge" (for UCLA Music Library) | 9:55 | |
| Disc 6 of 7 | |||
| 1 | String Quartet No. 11, Movement 6 "Sarhanna Kabell Smith" | 12:31 | |
| 2 | String Quartet No. 11, Movement 7 "Bessie Smith" | 11:08 | |
| 3 | String Quartet No. 11, Movement 8 "Alvin Singleton" | 7:56 | |
| 4 | String Quartet No. 11, Movement 9 "Red Autumn's Gold" (for Lucius G. Smith) | 12:25 | |
| Disc 7 of 7 | |||
| 1 | String Quartet No. 12, Movement 1 "Billie Holiday (1915-1959)" | 9:46 | |
| 2 | String Quartet No. 12, Movement 2 "Pacifica" | 10:49 | |