Rastafari (album)

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Rastafari
Rastafari Leo Smith cover.jpeg
Studio album by
Released1983
RecordedJune 12, 1983
StudioMcClear Place Studios, Toronto
Genre Jazz
Length39:41
Label Sackville
Producer Bill Smith
Wadada Leo Smith chronology
Procession of the Great Ancestry
(1989)
Rastafari
(1983)
Kulture Jazz
(1993)

Rastafari is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith with the Bill Smith ensemble, released in 1983 on the Canadian Sackville label. [1] 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". [2] It was reissued on CD in 2003 with new artwork by Boxholder. [3]

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Reception

Professional ratings
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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." [4]

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

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References

  1. "Wadada Leo Smith discography". Jazz Lists. jazzlists.com. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
  2. Original liner notes by Bill Shoemaker
  3. Rastafari at Wadada Leo Smith
  4. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Wadada Leo Smith - Rastafari: Review at AllMusic . Retrieved October 6, 2014.
  5. Larkin, Colin. "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music". p. 4997. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  6. "The Penguin Guide to Jazz: 4-Star Records in 8th Edition". Tom Hull . Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  7. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 183. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.