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Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith on WGXC

Nov 25, 2011 1:30 am

Join Cheryl K. on Thursday, Dec. 1 on "The Jazz Disturbance" from 7 to 9:30 p.m. for an interview with trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith. He's been active in creative contemporary music for over forty years. His systemic music language Ankhrasmation is significant in his development as an artist and educator. He has taught at the University of New Haven, CT, the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, NY and Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson. He is currently a faculty member at The Herb Alpert School of Music at California Institute of the Arts. Smith and his group Organic’s latest release is the double CD "Heart’s Reflection" on Cuneiform Records.