Trumpet

Wadada Leo Smith will turn 80 later this year, and to celebrate, Tum Records are releasing two deluxe 3-CD box sets. Three CDs with their own carton sleeves and an inner sleeve with a 50 page booklet.

Trumpet is a unique three-CD boxed set of solo trumpet music recorded over one week in the beautiful natural acoustics of St. Mary's Church, the medieval stone church in the Town of Pohja on the Southern Coast of Finland. All compositions by Wadada Leo Smith.

Trumpet represents a culmination of Smith's recorded solo trumpet work that has comprised of six albums before Trumpet, starting with his very first album as a leader, Creative Music - 1: Six Solo Improvisations, in 1971 and ending with his dedication to Thelonious Monk, Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk, in 2015.