Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Wadada Leo Smith\u2019s delicately muted tones and extreme brass dynamics have been an uplifting trumpet presence in left-field jazz for over half a century. His recent projects range from epic soundscapes inspired by the civil rights movement to intimate meditations on New York\u2019s Central Park. The trumpeter continues this sustained burst of late-life creativity with a duet meditation on the current human condition with pianist\/keyboardist Vijay Iyer. Overall, the music is sober in mood and sombre in tone, though the interplay of Smith\u2019s brassy confidence and Iyer\u2019s nuanced pianistics and electronica adds a sense of resilience. Iyer has been working with Smith on and off for two decades \u2014 their previous collaboration, A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke, was released in 2016 \u2014 and though two pieces are preconceived and four are spontaneously co-composed, the freedom and focus of the musicianship makes the distinction impossible to hear. \u201cI\u2019m always struck by how our music simply appears,\u201d writes Iyer on the sleeve.The set begins with scatters and flutters of grainy trumpet supported by low rumbles of full-pedal concert grand that mutually grow in intensity, fragment and slowly subside. The session, according to Iyer, was conditioned by sorrow and outrage at last year\u2019s cruel world events, and the sonic terrain of \u201cPrelude: Survival\u201d captures that. The broad sweep of \u201cSumud\u201d, Arabic for steadfastness, comes next, an aural confirmation of the musicians\u2019 continuing faith in human possibilities; Iong-sustained electronic drone supported by wisps of trumpet, tinkles of piano and rasps of Fender Rhodes. Later that faith is further underlined by the subtle rhythmic pulse that imbues \u201cElegy: The Pilgrimage\u201d with warmth.Elsewhere, Smith\u2019s composition \u201cFloating River Requiem (for Patrice Lumumba)\u201d combines trumpet with acoustic piano and hints at gospel and the blues, and Iyer\u2019s composition \u201cKite (for Refaat Alareer)\u201d finds Smith ruminating over Fender Rhodes. The final track, \u201cProcession: Defiant Life\u201d returns to the album\u2019s core emotional concerns, the tension between sorrow and hope. Here tentative beginnings gain in confidence and an undertow of rhythm gathers strength.\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2018Defiant Life\u2019 is released by ECM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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