True to the Avant-Garde – Wadada Leo Smith Profiled

From the Huffington Post:

For acclaimed jazz composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, the avant-garde is much more than a genre in the art world; its imperative of experimentation has been the foundation of his artistic life. Named as one of three finalists for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in music, he was also a multiple nominee in the 2012 Jazz Journalists Association poll.  Ten Freedom Summers, the work recognized by the Pulitzer nod, was hailed as a masterpiece by the jazz and music press after its release in May 2012. It’s truly an extraordinary work full of the drama, the emotion and the movement that is America. It can aptly — and literally — be called his life’s work.

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