| Rastafari | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Wadada Leo Smith |
| Cover: | Rastafari_Leo_Smith_cover.jpeg |
| Released: | 1983 |
| Recorded: | June 12, 1983 |
| Studio: | McClear Place Studios, Toronto |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 39:41 |
| Label: | Sackville |
| Producer: | Bill Smith |
| Chronology: | Wadada Leo Smith |
| Prev Title: | Procession of the Great Ancestry |
| Prev Year: | 1989 |
| Next Title: | Kulture Jazz |
| Next Year: | 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]
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."