Divine Love (album)

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Divine Love
File:Divine Love (album).jpg
Studio album by
Released1979
RecordedSeptember 1978
StudioTonstudio Bauer
Ludwigsburg, West Germany
GenreJazz
Length45:53
LabelECM 1143
ProducerManfred Eicher
Wadada Leo Smith chronology
Solo Music: Ahkreanvention
(1979)
Divine Love
(1979)
Budding of a Rose
(1979)

Divine Love is an album by American jazz trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith, recorded in September 1978 and released on ECM the following year. The trio features multi-instrumentalists Dwight Andrews and Bobby Naughton, with guest appearances from trumpeters Lester Bowie and Kenny Wheeler on one track and bassist Charlie Haden on another.[1][2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicFile:Star full.svgFile:Star full.svgFile:Star full.svgFile:Star full.svgFile:Star empty.svg[3]
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested Core Collection.[6] In a review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek wrote: "Smith acts as conductor, soloist, and his own sideman here; he opens the field on Divine Love through the authority of his players, each of whom receives the colorful possibilities he presents with unguarded openness and the desire to expand on them."[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Leo Smith
  1. "Divine Love" - 21:47
  2. "Tastalun" - 6:38
  3. "Spirituals: Language of Love" - 15:28

Personnel

References

  1. ECM discography Archived 2012-10-06 at the Wayback Machine accessed September 13, 2011
  2. "Wadada Leo Smith discography". Jazz Lists. jazzlists.com. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Jurek, Thom. "Wadada Leo Smith: Divine Love". AllMusic. Retrieved November 1, 2022.
  4. Larkin, Colin. "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music". p. 4997. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  5. "Tom Hull: Grade List: Wadada Leo Smith". Tom Hull. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  6. 6.0 6.1 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. "Wadada Leo Smith". The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 1309. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.
  7. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 183. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.