Wadada Leo Smith (left) and Vijay Iyer have known and collaborated with each other for decades. They have just released their second album as a duo, Defiant Life, with Smith on trumpet and Iyer on ...

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 ...

Wadada Leo Smith: The best way to think about it is as a notion of dialogue, where you look at the essentials, and you look at the possibilities, and you look at that which is necessary.

“i seek another dimension in music,” the trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith wrote in his 1973 book notes (8 pieces) source a new world music: creative music.Like an astrophysicist, he discovered that ...