Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer

Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer

• Blue
• Smithwadado
• Moutain's

This recording documents the first duo performance of two towering figures in American creative music: trumpeter-composer Wadada Leo Smith and the late drummer Ed Blackwell, best known as a member of free-jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman's quartet. A beautifully recorded radio broadcast from October 1986, this concert between two major figures from two generations of cutting edge American music, brilliantly weds sound, silence and rhythm into a lyrical and swinging performance. Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet, flugel-horn, flute, marimba, voice Ed Blackwell: drums and percussion All compositions by Wadada Leo Smith. Published by Liom Music, ASCAP. A-Train Entertainment Mixed at 4D, Brooklyn, NY by Liberty Ellman. Mastered at Golden Mastering, Vemtura CA, by JJ Golden. Cover art 'Horn and Drums', 2010 by Lyn Horton. Photograph of Wadada is by Scott Gollier. Photograph of Ed by W. Patrick Hinely Work/Play CD package design by Bill Ellsworth. Recorded live on October 23, 1986 at Brandeis University, Radio "The Joint" WBRS 100.1 FM. Engineer/producer Mark Liebowitz Executive Producer Wadada Leo Smith