ISHMAEL WADADA LEO SMITH – 2 DAY RESIDENCY – DAY 1 WITH MARK SANDERS / J SPACEMAN / JOHN EDWARDS / JOHN COXON

SATURDAY 24th July 2010

Times : 8pm

Tickets : £10 adv. / £12 on the door

£18 for a 2-day pass

We are extremely excited to have Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith playing for two nights at Café Oto after being blown away by his performance at Freedom Of The City in May.

Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith - Two Day Residency - Day 1 line-up:

Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith + Mark Sanders - duo

Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith + J Spaceman (Spiritualized)+ Mark Sanders + John Edwards + John Coxon

Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith has been active in the creative contemporary music world for over 30 years. A trumpet player, multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser, his original theory of jazz and world music has been significant in his musical development as an artist and educator.

Born in Leland, Miss., Smith's early musical life began in high school concert and marching bands. At the age of 13, he became immersed in the Delta Blues and improvisational music traditions. As an improvisor-composer, Smith has studied a variety of music cultures (African, Japanese, Indonesian, European and American) and to fully express this music, he has developed an original theory and notation system for jazz and world music which he calls Ankhrasmation.

Some of the artists Smith has performed with are Muhal Richard Abrams, Anthony Braxton, Leroy Jenkins, Roscoe Mitchell, Lester Bowie, Richard Teitelbaum, Joseph Jarman, George Lewis, Cecil Taylor, Andrew Cyrill, Oliver Lake, Anthony Davis, Carla Bley, David Murray, Don Cherry, Jeanne Lee, Milton Campbell, Henry Brant, Richard Davis, Tadao Sawai, Ed Blackwell, Sabu Toyozumi, Peter Kowald, Kazuko Shiraishi, Han Bennink, Misja Mengelberg, Marion Brown, Kazutoki Umezu, Kosei Yamamoto, Charlie Haden, Kang Tae Hwan, Kim Dae Hwan and Tom Buckner, among many others.

LINKS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QzBTnbcAtY

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=v7NLIQFPHXU&feature=related

http://music.calarts.edu/~wls/

http://www.myspace.com/wadadaleosmith

http://www.last.fm/music/Wadada+Leo+Smith

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqkZem06b3U

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=36242

John Edwards is a true virtuoso whose staggering range of techniques and boundless musical imagination have redefined the possibility of the double bass and dramatically expanded its role, whether playing solo or with others. Perpetually in demand, he has played with Evan Parker, Sunny Murray, Derek Bailey, John Wall, Joe McPhee, Lol Coxhill, and many others.

Mark Sanders has been acclaimed as “the most exciting, original and overwhelmingly powerful drummer alive” (Steve Reynolds, Jazz Corner) and his precise and propulsive drumming has graced projects with, to name but a few, Evan Parker, Jah Wobble, Broadcast, Agusti Fernandez, John Butcher, Roswell Rudd, and Otomo Yoshihde.