Leo Smith – Rastafari

Description

Leo Smith – Rastafari
Boxholder Records BXH035 (2003)
Compact Disc

This 1983 recording, originally issued on Sackville LP, features jazz trumpeter Leo Smith with the Bill Smith Ensemble. “The playing by these adventurous musicians is advanced ad quite free on the four group originals, and all five players share equally in the creation of these fresh explorations.” — Scott Yanow, Allmusic. “An inspired Leo Smith is to be heard throughout Rastafari, ruminating about the spaces of the title piece; singing in the shimmering light of Prentice’s ‘Madder Lake’; exhorting the madness of war in Bill Smith’s anti-war statement, ‘Rituals’; and bantering throughout ‘Little Bits’, the saxophonist’s portrait of his daughters. In turn. Rastafari is an inspiring album. This should not be surprising, as inspiration is the function of the hero; and Leo Smith is a hero of American music.” –Bill Shoemaker from the original LP descriptive notes.