Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet October 28, 2010

Neues Kabarett is delighted to partner with the Brooklyn Public Library to present Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet at the Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture, and features Smith on trumpet, Angelica Sanchez on piano, John Lindberg on bass and James Kamal Jones and drums.

This performance is the world premiere of the five pieces Smith composed while a 2009/2010 Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. As a Fellow he composed “Dred Scott- 1857,” “September Eleventh – 2001,” “Democracy,” “Buzzsaw: The Myth of the Free Press” and “People of the Shahada.” These compositions are part of a larger collection, America, that is the result of Smith's research and reflection on the philosophical, social and political history of United States of America.