Defiant Life album review by Doug Collette, published on March 21, 2025. Find thousands jazz reviews at All About Jazz!

Kindred spirits pianist and composer Vijay Iyer and the iconic creative trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith have forged a telepathic ...

Veteran jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and the comparatively younger but also-veteran jazz pianist Vijay Iyer have announced their second duo album, Defiant Life, which follows 2016’s A Cosmic ...

Stewart Smith heads down to Café Oto to see jazz trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith perform last year's Ten Freedom Summers as part of the 2013 EFG London Jazz Festival If you’ve read something ...

Pianist and composer Vijay Iyer has announced a new album with trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Out March 21, via ECM, Defiant Life is the artists’ second collaborative record, following 2016’s A ...

CD1: Don Cherry's Electric Sonic Garden; Heart's Reflections: Splendors of Light and Purification (for Shaykh Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili): The Dhikr of Radiant Hearts, Part I; The Dihkr of Radiant ...

Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet; Henry Kaiser, Mike Keneally, Chris Muir: electric guitars; Michael Manring: bass; Steve Smith: drums; Karl Perazzo: percussion; Greg Osby ...

Movement 4: Jupiter Skies: Kelan Phil Cochran and the Chicago Kulture. Movement 5: Scented Yellow and Red Chrysanthemums; Wadada Leo Smith: The Bell In Silence Resonants and Ten Freedom Summers. Disc ...

Nine years ago, jazz greats Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith joined forces to release the collaborative album A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke. Both of them have done plenty of big things since the ...

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