| The Mass on the World | |
| Type: | live |
| Artist: | Wadada Leo Smith |
| Cover: | Mass on the World WLS.JPG |
| Released: | 1978 |
| Recorded: | May 15, 1978 |
| Venue: | International New Jazz Festival Moers |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 38:45 |
| Label: | Moers Music 01060 |
| Producer: | Burkhard Hennen |
| Prev Title: | Song of Humanity |
| Prev Year: | 1977 |
| Next Year: | 1979 |
The Mass on the World is a live album by jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith released in 1978 by German Moers Music label.[1] The album was recorded at the seventh Moers Festival in Freizeitpark, Moers, Germany, on May 15, 1978. The songs and album title are borrowed from Teilhard de Chardin’s Hymn of the Universe, a poetic and impressionistic account of the spiritual world initially published in 1961.[2] [3] [4]