Creative Music - 1

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Creative Music - 1
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Studio album by
Released1972
RecordedDecember 18–19, 1971
Genre Jazz
Length49:06
Label Kabell
Producer Wadada Leo Smith
Wadada Leo Smith chronology
Creative Music - 1
(1972)
Reflectativity
(1975)

Creative Music - 1 is the first recording as a leader by American jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, which was released in 1972 on his own, privately pressed label Kabell. Subtitled "Six Solo Improvisations", the album featured Smith solo using trumpet, flugelhorn and various drums, gongs, bells, and home made percussion. It was reissued in 2004 as part of the four-CD box Kabell Years: 1971-1979 , released by John Zorn's imprint Tzadik Records. [1] [2]

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Reception

Professional ratings
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In his review for AllMusic, Eugene Chadbourne notes that "The real plus of musician-run labels is that the listener has the possibility to receive a completely uncompromised, pure version of the artist's work, and, in the case of this album, that is one large treasure indeed." [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Wadada Leo Smith.

  1. "Nine (9) Stones on a Mountain" - 5:29
  2. "Improvisation No. 4" - 7:16
  3. "Creative Music - 1" - 11:54
  4. "aFmie - Poem (solo) DancE 3" - 13:12
  5. "Ogotommêli: Dogon Sage" - 8:14
  6. "Ep - 1" - 3:01

Personnel

References

  1. Kabell Years: 1971-1979 Archived 2014-10-06 at the Wayback Machine at Wadada Leo Smith
  2. "Wadada Leo Smith discography". Jazz Lists. jazzlists.com. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
  3. 1 2 Chadbourne, Eugene. Wadada Leo Smith - Creative Music - 1: Review at AllMusic . Retrieved September 27, 2014.
  4. Larkin, Colin. "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music". p. 4997. Retrieved August 31, 2020.