Song of Humanity | |
Type: | live |
Artist: | Wadada Leo Smith |
Cover: | Song_of_humanity_cover.jpg |
Released: | 1977 |
Recorded: | August 4, 1976 |
Venue: | The Gallery, New Haven |
Genre: | Jazz |
Length: | 40:59 |
Label: | Kabell |
Producer: | Wadada Leo Smith, Wes Brown, Anthony Davis |
Chronology: | Wadada Leo Smith |
Prev Title: | Reflectativity |
Prev Year: | 1975 |
Next Title: | The Mass on the World |
Next Year: | 1978 |
Song of Humanity is an album by American jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith with the ensemble New Dalta Akhri. It was recorded live at The Gallery, New Haven, and released in 1977 on his own Kabell label.[1] The album was reissued in 2004 as part of the four-CD box on John Zorn's imprint Tzadik.[2]
In his review for AllMusic, Eugene Chadbourne states: "This, the one existing album of this group, suffers from a syndrome of the time being too short to allow stretching out if it is to include a few different styles of compositions by each writing member of the group, which, in this case, included not only Smith but pianist Anthony Davis."
All compositions by Wadada Leo Smith except where noted.