Kulture Jazz is an album by American jazz trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith

Wadada Leo Smith

Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith is a trumpeter and composer working primarily in the fields of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation.-Biography:...

 recorded in 1993 and released on the ECM label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Eugene Chadbourne

Eugene Chadbourne

Eugene Chadbourne is an American improvisor, guitarist and banjoist. Highly eclectic and unconventional, Chadbourne's most formative influence is free jazz. He has also been a reviewer for Allmusic and a contributor to Maximum RocknRoll.Chadbourne started out playing rock and roll guitar, but...

 states "The ECM folks do much better by Wadada Leo Smith than ever before with this solo recording, a true masterwork of its kind and one of the purest, most enlightening demonstrations of the connected natures of folk, blues, jazz, and creative music".

Track listing

All compositions by Wadada Leo Smith

1. "Don't You Remember?" - 3:42
2. "Kulture of Jazz" - 5:33
3. "Song of Humanity (Kanto Pri Homaro)" - 3:36
4. "Fire-Sticks, Chrysanthemums and Moonlight (For Harumi)" - 3:42
5. "Seven Rings of Light in the Hola Trinity" - 2:26
6. "Louis Armstrong Counterpointing" - 2:43
7. "Albert Ayler in a Spiritual Light" - 4:44
8. "The Kemet Omega Reigns (For Billie Holiday)" - 5:02
9. "Love Supreme (For John Coltrane)" - 3:56
10. "Mississippi Delta Sunrise (For Bobbie)" - 3:55
11. "Mother: Sarah Brown-Smith-Wallace (1920-92)" - 4:06
12. "The Healer's Voyage on the Sacred River (For Ayl Kwel Armah)" - 3:46
13. "Uprising (For Jessie and Yvonne)" - 5:05
    • Recorded at Hardstudios in Winterthur, Switzerland in October 1992

Personnel

• Wadada Leo Smith
  Wadada Leo Smith
  Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith is a trumpeter and composer working primarily in the fields of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation.-Biography:...
  
   - trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
  , flugelhorn
  Flugelhorn
  The flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore. Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the valve bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus...
  
  , koto
  Koto
  Koto may refer to:*Koto , a Japanese musical instrument*Koto , a traditional dress made by Creole women in Suriname*Koto , Italian/Dutch synth pop group*Kōtō, Tokyo, a ward in Tokyo, Japan...
  
  , mbira
  Mbira
  In African music, the mbira is a musical instrument that consists of a wooden board to which staggered metal keys have been attached. It is often fitted into a resonator...
  
  , harmonica
  Harmonica
  The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
  
  , bamboo notch flute
  Flute
  The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
  
  , percussion, vocals