Heart's Reflections | |
Type: | Studio |
Artist: | Wadada Leo Smith |
Cover: | Heart's Reflections WLS.jpg |
Border: | yes |
Released: | May 16, 2011 |
Studio: | Firehouse 12 Recording Studio, New Haven, CT Herb Alpert's School of Music, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA |
Genre: | Jazz |
Length: | 01:54:00 |
Label: | Cuneiform Records Rune 330/331 |
Producer: | Michael Gregory Jackson |
Prev Title: | The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer |
Prev Year: | 2010 |
Next Title: | Dark Lady of the Sonnets |
Next Year: | 2011 |
Heart's Reflections is a two-disc studio album by American jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. The album was released on May 16, 2011 via Cuneiform Records label.[1]
Glen Hall of Exclaim! stated "Trumpeter Smith wears his love for Miles Davis on his sleeve. And the vibe of Heart's Reflections echoes Electric-era Miles, with wah-wah, electric trumpet, yowling guitars, rock-solid drumming and jangling electric piano. But where Miles' music exuded sexuality, most of Smith's two-CD set is ostensibly dedicated to Sufi saint Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili... Even with a heavy-on-electronics, 14-piece group, Smith's music is consistently focused and expressive.[2]
Phil Johnson of The Independent wrote "The astonishing 20-minute opening track might be called "Don Cherry's Electric Sonic Garden", but it's the wheedling tone and furious backbeat of the late Miles Davis that veteran free-jazz trumpeter Smith makes you think of most. Four electric guitarists among an ensemble of 14, with two laptop operatives squiggling away. You can argue that nothing on the double-CD quite equals it, or question the context of mystic spirituality, but Smith has made electric jazz sound dangerous again".[3]
Disc 1
Disc 2