Acclaimed composer/trumpeter and 2013 Pulitzer Finalist Wadada Leo Smith performs music from his civil rights opus Ten Freedom Summers – which has earned wide acclaim as “an expansive jazz work that memorializes 10 key moments in the history of civil rights in America, fusing composed and improvised passages into powerful, eloquent music.” (Pulitzer Prize Committee) – at two major Festivals in the coming weeks. He performs:
Friday, August 30, 7:40 p.m. at the Chicago Jazz Festival with his Golden Quartet (Anthony Davis on piano, John Lindberg on double bass and Anthony Brown on drums) and Pacific Red Choral (violinists Shalini Vijayan and Mona Tian, violist Andrew McIntosh, cellist Ashley Waters, and harpist Alison Bjorkedal) plus video artist Jessie Gilbert
Saturday, September 8 at the Guelph Jazz Festival with his Golden Quartet
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