Date/Time
Date(s) - 12/16/2017
1:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Location
The Lab

Category(ies)

• Video
• Music
• Multimedia
• Avant-Garde
• Talk
• Electronic
• Ensemble
• Festival
• Improvisation
• International
• Jazz
• New Music
• Premiere

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A festival dedicated to the music of Wadada Leo Smith. It is a source for premiering new and existing works, and the celebration of information through seminars, video and film presentation.

This is to instill information that will address the historical and inspirational sources of the new works.

CREATE occurs annually in New Haven, CT during the month of April, and later in the year in other regions in the United States. There, CREATE incorporates a community of musicians in those selected sites.

Also, each festival opens with young developing artist’ ensemble, who are assigned to compose a new work to be premiered at CREATE.

Our outreach program for young children and young developing artists takes place through the production of performances and workshops in local nursery schools, kindergarten schools and neighborhood schools of music.

DEC 12 – SF Chronicle Article: Prolific trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith brings his Create Festival to SF

1-3PM

Seminar: Workshop introducing Ankhrasmation Symbolic Language Scores –– participants are encouraged to bring instruments.

• Talk + Coffee

8PM

Wadada Leo Smith: Earth

• Wadada Leo Smith — trumpet
• Motoko Honda — piano
• Soo Yeon Lyuh — haegeum
• William Winant — percussion

ROVA: Saxophone Quartet No. 1: Ma’d-Din, in memory of Sufi Master, Cerno Bokar Saalif Taal

• Bruce Ackley — soprano & tenor saxophones
• Larry Ochs — tenor & sopranino saxophones
• Jon Raskin — baritone, alto & sopranino saxophones
• Steve Adams — alto & sopranino saxophones

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• Don Robinson –– drums

Wadada Leo Smith’s Pacifica: Koral Reef

• Wadada Leo Smith — trumpet
• Henry Kaiser — guitar
• John Lindberg — bass

BREAK

Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quintet: America’s National Parks

(The Mississippi River Dark and Deep Dreams Flow the River – a National Memorial Park c. 5000 BC; Sequoia Kings Canyon National Parks The Giant Forest, Great Canyon, Cliffs, Peaks, Waterfalls and Cave Systems 1890; Yosemite The Glaciers, the Falls, the Wells and the Valley of Goodwill 1890)

• Wadada Leo Smith — trumpet
• Anthony Davis — piano
• Ashley Walters — cello
• John Lindberg — bass
• Pheeroan akLaff — drums

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• Jesse Gilbert — video artist