Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith at Cafe OTO

ISHMAEL WADADA LEO SMITH : TWO DAY RESIDENCY
GUITAR, BRASS & PERCUSSION ENSEMBLES

SUN 26 AUGUST '12 • 8PM • £10 advance / £12 on the door
with John Coxon, John Russell, John Edwards, Mark Sanders

MON 27 AUGUST '12 • 8PM • £10 advance / £12 on the door
with Gail Brand, Ian Smith, Byron Wallen, Charles Hayward

Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith is one of the most adventurous and engaged figures in creative music today and his recent 4CD boxset - 'Ten Freedom Summers' showed that he is currently operating at the height of his creative powers...

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ISHMAEL WADADA LEO SMITH : TWO DAY RESIDENCY
GUITAR, BRASS & PERCUSSION ENSEMBLES

SUN 26 AUGUST '12 • 8PM • £10 advance / £12 on the door
with John Coxon, John Russell, John Edwards, Mark Sanders

MON 27 AUGUST '12 • 8PM • £10 advance / £12 on the door
with Gail Brand, Ian Smith, Byron Wallen, Charles Hayward

Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith is one of the most adventurous and engaged figures in creative music today and his recent 4CD boxset - 'Ten Freedom Summers' showed that he is currently operating at the height of his creative powers. This will be his third visit to Cafe OTO and his residencies here always offer a new insight to his approach to music. This time he will be working with four groups across the two nights. On Sunday, an acoustic trio with guitarists John Coxon and John Russell followed by an electrified quintet with Coxon, Russell, John Edwards and Mark Sanders. On the monday he'll open with a brass quartet with Gail Brand (trombone) and trumpeters Ian Smith and Byron Wallen and then finish things off with a driving percussion ensemble featuring Charles Hayward and more percussionists TBC.

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