(free jazz, contemporary classical) Wadada Leo Smith - Ten Freedom Summers - 4CD - 2012, MP3, 320 kbps

No. Title Length
1. "Dred Scott: 1857" 11:48
2. "Malik Al Shabazz and the People of the Shahada" 5:15
3. "Emmett Till: Defiant, Fearless" 18:02
4. "Thurgood Marshall and Brown vs. Board of Education: A Dream of Equal Education, 1954" 15:05
5. "John F. Kennedy's New Frontier and the Space Age, 1960" 22:08
Total length: 1:12:21

No. Title Length
1. "Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 381 Days" 12:43
2. "Black Church" 16:35
3. "Freedom Summer: Voter Registration, Acts of Compassion and Empowerment, 1964" 12:34
4. "Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society and the Civil Rights Act of 1964" 24:12
Total length: 1:06:06

No. Title Length
1. "Freedom Riders Ride" 16:40
2. "Medgar Evers: A Love-Voice of a Thousand Years' Journey for Liberty and Justice" 10:07
3. "D.C. Wall: A War Memorial for All Times" 12:17
4. "Buzzsaw: The Myth of a Free Press" 15:03
5. "Little Rock Nine: A Force for Desegregation in Education, 1957" 13:49
Total length: 1:07:59

No. Title Length
1. "America, Parts 1, 2 & 3" 14:11
2. "September 11th, 2001: A Memorial" 9:39
3. "Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1964" 8:36
4. "Democracy" 14:30
5. "Martin Luther King, Jr: Memphis, the Prophecy" 20:34
Total length: 1:07:32

Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (born December 18, 1941) is an American trumpeter and composer, working primarily in the fields of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation. He was one of three finalists for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music for Ten Freedom Summers, released on May 22, 2012.
Biography
Smith was born in Leland, Mississippi. He started out playing drums, mellophone, and French horn before he settled on the trumpet. He played in various R&B groups and by 1967 became a member of the AACM and co-founded the Creative Construction Company, a trio with Leroy Jenkins and Anthony Braxton. In 1971, Smith formed his own label, Kabell. He also formed another band, the New Dalta Ahkri, with members including Henry Threadgill, Anthony Davis and Oliver Lake.
In the 1970s, Smith studied ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University. He played again with Anthony Braxton, as well as recording with Derek Bailey's Company. In the mid-1980s, Smith became Rastafarian and began using the name Wadada. In 1993, he began teaching at Cal Arts, a position he held until 2014. In addition to trumpet and flugelhorn, Smith plays several world music instruments, including the koto, kalimba, and atenteben (Ghanaian bamboo flute). He has also taught courses in instrument making. His compositions often use a graphic notation system he calls "Ankhrasmation", which he developed in 1970.
In 1998, Smith and guitarist Henry Kaiser released Yo, Miles!, a tribute to Miles Davis's then-lesser-known 1970s electric period. On this album, Smith, Kaiser and a large cast of musicians recorded cover versions and original compositions inspired by Miles's electric music. The follow-ups Sky Garden (released by Cuneiform in 2004) and Upriver (released in 2005) were recorded with a different cast of musicians. Both line-ups featured Michael Manring on bass.
Smith's Golden Quartet (with which he has released several albums) originally featured Jack DeJohnette on drums, Anthony Davis on keyboards, and Malachi Favors on bass. After several iterations, the Golden Quartet now features Pheeroan akLaff on drums, John Lindberg on bass, and Davis on piano.
During the 2000s, Smith recorded albums for John Zorn's label Tzadik, as well as Pi Recordings. In 2008, he and his Golden Quartet released a DVD entitled Freedom Now.

Ten Freedom Summers is a four-disc box set by American trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith, released on May 5, 2012, by Cuneiform Records. Smith wrote its pieces intermittently for 34 years, beginning in 1977, before performing them live in November 2011 at the Colburn School's Zipper Hall in Los Angeles. He was accompanied by the nine-piece Southwest Chamber Music ensemble and his own jazz quartet, featuring drummers Pheeroan akLaff and Susie Ibarra, pianist Anthony Davis, and bassist John Lindberg.
A free jazz and contemporary classical work, Ten Freedom Summers comprises 19 pieces that are mostly fully developed suites. They eschew conventional themes for abstract expressions of the subject matter, which focuses on the Civil Rights Movement and other interrelated topics. Smith cites the segregation of his native Mississippi and playwright August Wilson's The Pittsburgh Cycle as inspirations behind the work. Ten Freedom Summers received widespread acclaim from critics and was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2013.

Pheeroan akLaff – drums
Alison Bjorkedal – harp
Anthony Davis – piano
Jim Foschia – clarinet
Lorenz Gamma – violin
Golden Quartet – ensemble, main personnel
Golden Quintet – ensemble, main personnel
Susie Ibarra – drums
Peter Jacobson – cello
Larry Kaplan – flute
Jan Karlin – viola
John Lindberg – bass
Tom Peters – bass
Jeff von der Schmidt – conductor
Wadada Leo Smith – composer, executive producer, primary artist, producer, trumpet
Matthew Snyder – engineer
Southwest Chamber Music – ensemble, executive producer, producer
Lynn Vartan – percussion
Shalini Vijayan – violin