Heart's Reflections
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Herb Alpert's School of Music, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
| Heart's Reflections | ||||
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| Released | May 16, 2011 | |||
| Studio | Firehouse 12 Recording Studio, New Haven, CT Herb Alpert's School of Music, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 1:54:00 | |||
| Label | Cuneiform Records Rune 330/331 | |||
| Producer | Michael Gregory Jackson | |||
| Wadada Leo Smith chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| All About Jazz |  [2] |
| The Telegraph | [3] |
| The Jazz Mann | [4] |
| Tom Hull | A−[5] |
Heart's Reflections is a two-disc studio album by American jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. The album was released on May 16, 2011 via Cuneiform Records label.[6]
Glen Hall of Exclaim! stated "Trumpeter Smith wears his love for Miles Davis on his sleeve. And the vibe of Heart's Reflections echoes Electric-era Miles, with wah-wah, electric trumpet, yowling guitars, rock-solid drumming and jangling electric piano. But where Miles' music exuded sexuality, most of Smith's two-CD set is ostensibly dedicated to Sufi saint Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili... Even with a heavy-on-electronics, 14-piece group, Smith's music is consistently focused and expressive.[7]
Phil Johnson of The Independent wrote "The astonishing 20-minute opening track might be called "Don Cherry's Electric Sonic Garden", but it's the wheedling tone and furious backbeat of the late Miles Davis that veteran free-jazz trumpeter Smith makes you think of most. Four electric guitarists among an ensemble of 14, with two laptop operatives squiggling away. You can argue that nothing on the double-CD quite equals it, or question the context of mystic spirituality, but Smith has made electric jazz sound dangerous again".[8]
