As a composer, Wadada Leo Smith is impossible to classify in one word. You need a laundry list: there’s definitely jazz, and the western classical tradition, but musical styles from a variety of other ...

Last year, the resolutely nonconformist composer, educator and percussionist Tyshawn Sorey was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music — a rare honor in itself, and a confirmation of the esteem ...

Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith Trumpeter, composer, and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist, Wadada Leo Smith is a boldly original figure in ...

Art-rock heroes join forces with the avant-jazz trumpet veteran on a new Bandcamp-only live LP benefiting Black Lives Matter The musicians are donating all proceeds from the song to Black Lives Matter ...

This is FRESH AIR. Our jazz critic Kevin Whitehead says five decades after Wadada Leo Smith began recording, the trumpeter and composer is having his moment with a Pulitzer nomination three years ago ...

Last year, the resolutely nonconformist composer, educator and percussionist Tyshawn Sorey was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music — a rare honor in itself, and a confirmation of the esteem ...

The aptly named Golden Quartet is either dubbed for the golden years of these four jazzmen, or perhaps it is the simple musical lines they have spun into an alloy of precious sound. The quartet’s ...