Divine Love is an album by American jazz trumpeter and composer Leo Smith

Wadada Leo Smith

Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith is a trumpeter and composer working primarily in the fields of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation.-Biography:...

 recorded in 1978 and released on the ECM label.

Reception

The Penguin Guide to Jazz

The Penguin Guide to Jazz

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selected this album as part of its suggested Core Collection.

The Allmusic review by Eugene Chadbourne

Eugene Chadbourne

Eugene Chadbourne is an American improvisor, guitarist and banjoist. Highly eclectic and unconventional, Chadbourne's most formative influence is free jazz. He has also been a reviewer for Allmusic and a contributor to Maximum RocknRoll.Chadbourne started out playing rock and roll guitar, but...

 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".

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

• Leo Smith
  Wadada Leo Smith
  Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith is a trumpeter and composer working primarily in the fields of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation.-Biography:...
  
   - trumpet
  Trumpet
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  , flugelhorn
  Flugelhorn
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  , gong
  Gong
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  , percussion
• Dwight Andrews - alto flute
  Alto flute
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  , bass clarinet
  Bass clarinet
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  , tenor saxophone
  Tenor saxophone
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  , triangle
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  s, mbira
  Mbira
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• Bobby Naughton
  Bobby Naughton
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   - vibraharp, marimba
  Marimba
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  , bells
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• Lester Bowie
  Lester Bowie
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  , Kenny Wheeler
  Kenny Wheeler
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   - trumpet (track 2)
• Charlie Haden
  Charlie Haden
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   - bass
  Double bass
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  (track 3)