Blue Trumpet
Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet
Ten Freedom Summers
November 1, 2014
Onassis Cultural Center
Athens, Greece

 

Sunday, September 23, 2018

Monterey, CA

Wadada Leo Smith: America’s National Parks

Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey, CA

6pm–7:30pm

 

Friday, September 28, 2018

Leibnitz, Austria

Wadada Leo Smith’s Great Lakes Quartet

Jazzfestival Leibnitz 2018
Kulturzentrum Leibnitz, Hugo Wolf-Saal
Leibnitz, Austria

9:30pm

 

Friday, October 5, 2018

New York, NY

Wadada Leo Smith Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk

AACM Concert Series
The Community Church of New York
New York, NY

8pm

 

Sunday, October 14, 2018

Los Angeles, CA

Wadada Leo Smith: Rosa Parks Oratorio

Angel City Jazz Festival
Redcat
631 West 2nd Street,
Los Angeles, CA

8pm–10:30pm

 

Friday, October 19, 2018

Skopje, Macedonia

Wadada Leo Smith: Reflections and Meditations on Monk

Skopje Jazz Festival
Skopje, Macedonia

8pm

 

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Brooklyn, NY

FOR: Works By Wadada Leo Smith, Annea Lockwood, Catherine Lamb

Issue Project Room
Brooklyn, NY

8pm

 

Thursday, November 1, 2018

Brooklyn, NY

WITH: Works By Annea Lockwood, Ashley Fure, Felipe Lara, Wadada Leo Smith

Issue Project Room
Brooklyn, NY

8pm

 

Saturday, January 26, 2019

New York, NY

Wadada Leo Smith: America’s National Parks

Jazz At Lincoln Center – The Appel Room
New York, NY

9:30pm

 

Thursday, March 21–Sunday, March 24, 2019

Knoxville, TN

Wadada Leo Smith Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk

Big Ears Festival
Knoxville, TN
 

 

Thursday, March 21–Sunday, March 24, 2019

Knoxville, TN

Wadada Leo Smith’s Nda, Performing “Divine Love” with Bobby Naughton and Dwight Andrews

Big Ears Festival
Knoxville, TN
 

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The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) today announced that the boldly original composer, trumpeter and Pulitzer Finalist Wadada Leo Smith has been named a 2016 Doris Duke Artist. Smith…

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