With Mark Guiliana, Mehldau was funky and electric – while Wadada Leo Smith's epic was both beautiful and sobering, writes John Fordham
September 2012
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith: 'The black experience is American experience'
He invented his own form of notation, and spent decades composing a jazz history of the civil rights movement. Ben Beaumont-Thomas meets an extraordinary musical pioneer
August 2012
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith: Ten Freedom Summers – review
