Wadada Leo Smith interview

[Lazaro Vega]

Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith spoke to Blue Lake Public Radio about his music and Sunday afternoon's duet concert with bassist John Lindberg at LaFontsee Galleries in Grand Rapids (see www.adventuremusic.org). The conversation is available here, under "Interviews": www.bluelake.org/ondemand

[Lazaro Vega]

Proportional rhythms, Louis Armstrong as both a vertical and horizontal trumpet player, the difference between improvised music and creative music....thought some of Smith's ideas expressed in this interview would stir some conversation.....

[mjazzg]

Thanks for posting. An interesting listen indeed. Glad he liked the fireworks analogy as it worked for me too. As a non-musician I fear some of the nuance of his thoughts passed me by. That idea of having composers in the band so they can inhabit the spaces provided by the compositions provides a new way to listen to and understand his work. Now I'm just going to have to buy the Parks disc

[Lazaro Vega]

Thank you for checking it out. 

[Lazaro Vega]

http://bombmagazine.org/article/891969/wadada-leo-smith