Divine Love (album)

Divine Love is an album by American jazz trumpeter and composer Leo Smith recorded in 1978 and released on the ECM label.[1][2]

Divine Love
Studio album by
Released1979
RecordedSeptember 1978
GenreJazz
Length45:53
LabelECM
ProducerManfred Eicher
Leo Smith chronology
Solo Music: Ahkreanvention
(1979)
Divine Love
(1979)
Budding of a Rose
(1979)

Reception

The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested Core Collection.[3]

The Allmusic review by Eugene Chadbourne awarded the album 4 stars stating "His scores from this time were very well-thought-out and demanded a special type of concentration from the performers, moving into areas quite different than the usual intensity build-up of free jazz or the theme-improvise-theme standards of much that came before".[4]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[5]
Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[6]
Tom HullB[7]

Track listing

All compositions by Leo Smith
  1. "Divine Love" - 21:47
  2. "Tastalun" - 6:38
  3. "Spirituals: Language of Love" - 15:28
    • Recorded at Tonstudio Bauer in Ludwigsburg, West Germany in September 1978

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. 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.
  4. Chadbourne, E. Allmusic Review accessed September 13, 2011
  5. Larkin, Colin. "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music". p. 4997. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  6. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 183. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  7. "Tom Hull: Grade List: Wadada Leo Smith". Tom Hull. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
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