American jazz trumpeter and composer
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Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (18 December 1941 in Leland, Mississippi) is a trumpeter and composer working primarily in the fields of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation. He started out playing drums, mellophone and French horn before he settled on the trumpet. He played in various rhythm-n-blues groups and by 1967 became a member of the AACM and co-founded the Creative Construction Company, a trio with Leroy Jenkins and Anthony Braxton. In 1971 Smith formed his own label, Kabell. <a href="https
5 total works indexed
· 2001 · cited 111,695x
· 1997
· 1956 · cited 41,912x
· 2020 · cited 34,710x
· 2015 · cited 24,291x
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