String Quartets Nos. 1–12 — Wadada Leo Smith

Tracklist · 30 Tracks · 5h 34m

String Quartet No. 5 “In the Diaspora – Earthquakes and Sunrise Missions”

17:22

String Quartet No. 11: Sarhanna Kabell Smith

12:31

String Quartet No. 3 “Black Church: A First World Gathering of the Spirit”: Movement 1

11:13

String Quartet No. 12: Billie Holiday

9:46

String Quartet No. 1: Ulysses Simpson Kay

7:14

String Quartet No. 11: Shaikh Cerno Boka

13:41

String Quartet No. 8 “Opunta Humifusa”

21:12

String Quartet No. 9: Ma Rainey

6:25

String Quartet No. 6 “Taif: Prayer n the Garden of the Hijaz”

23:00

String Quartet No. 11: Bessie Smith

11:08

String Quartet No. 3 “Black Church: A First World Gathering of the Spirit”: Movement 2

10:05

String Quartet No. 1: Thomas Jefferson Anderson, Jr.

4:15

String Quartet No. 11: Louis Armstrong

8:55

String Quartet No. 12: Pacifica

10:49

String Quartet No. 11: Alvin Singleton

7:56

String Quartet No. 1: Hale Smith

7:46

String Quartet No. 4: Movement 1

6:46

String Quartet No. 7 “Ten Thousand Ceveus Peruvianus Amemevical (In rememberance of Dorothy Ann Stone)”

14:38

String Quartet No. 9: Marian Anderson

10:15

String Quartet No. 11: Sarah Bell Brown‐Smith

10:00

String Quartet No. 1: George Theophilius Walker

11:51

String Quartet No. 11: Kashala Kiom Smith

12:30

String Quartet No. 10 “Angela Davis: Into the Morning Sunlight”

13:46

String Quartet No. 4: Movement 2

6:41

String Quartet No. 11: Red Autumn’s Gold (For Lucius G. Smith)

12:25

String Quartet No. 4: Movement 3

11:48

String Quartet No. 2

16:52

String Quartet No. 11: At the Heart’s Core, Knowledge (For UCLA Music Library)

9:55

String Quartet No. 4: Movement 4

2:39

String Quartet No. 4: Movement 5

11:09

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