2021 studio album by Wadada Leo Smith with Milford Graves and Bill Laswell
Sacred Ceremonies
Studio album by
Wadada Leo Smith with Milford Graves and Bill Laswell
Released
2021
Recorded
December 11–12, 2015; May 26–27, 2016
Studio
Orange Music Sound Studios, West Orange, New Jersey
Genre
Free jazz
Length
2:55:13
Label
TUM Records BOX 003
Producer
Petri Haussila
Wadada Leo Smith chronology
Trumpet (2021)
Sacred Ceremonies (2021)
The Chicago Symphonies (2021)
Sacred Ceremonies is a three-CD box set album by trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith on which he is joined by drummer Milford Graves and electric bassist Bill Laswell. Disc one was recorded on May 27, 2016, and features Smith and Graves in duo format. Disc two was recorded on May 26, 2016, and features Smith and Laswell. The entire trio is heard on disc three, which was recorded on December 11 and 12, 2015. All three discs were recorded at Orange Music Sound Studios in West Orange, New Jersey. The album was released by TUM Records in 2021.[1][2][3][4]
Sacred Ceremonies was issued by TUM as part of a series of box sets honoring Wadada Leo Smith's 80th birthday.[5] It is unique in that it brings together Smith, a member of the first generation of musicians to come out of Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in the 1960s, Graves, a veteran of New York City's free jazz movement during the same era, and Laswell, who played a major role in the downtown scene of the 1970s.[3] The album is dedicated to the memory of Graves, who died in early 2021. Smith stated: "Bill and I had the great pleasure of recording this special duet/trio project with Milford Graves and dedicate this music to him... Milford was one of the greatest master drummers of our times, who reshaped the way rhythms are played on the drum-set. We will miss him and so will the world."[3]
^Jurek, Thom. "Wadada Leo Smith: Sacred Ceremonies". AllMusic. Retrieved August 23, 2023.
^"Wadada Leo Smith - Sacred Ceremonies". Jazz Music Archives. Retrieved August 23, 2023.
^ abc"Wadada Leo Smith with Milford Graves and Bill Laswell: Sacred Ceremonies". TUM Records. Retrieved August 23, 2023.
^"TUM Records discography". JazzLists. Retrieved August 23, 2023.
^"TUM Records Concludes Its Celebration of Wadada Leo Smith's 80th Anniversary" (PDF). TUM Records. Retrieved August 23, 2023.
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