BIBFRAME Work

Title

Sacred ceremonies

Type

  • Monograph
  • Music Audio

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Classification

LCC: SDD 47700 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

Note

Wadada Leo Smith, trumpet ; Bill Laswell, basses ; Milford Graves, drums and percussion.

Supplementary content

Summary

Sacred ceremonies represents a meeting of three true masters of creative music. On this three-CD boxed set trumpet legend Wadada Leo Smith joins forces with the ever-versatile electric bassist Bill Laswell and the late, great master drummer Milford Graves in three separate sessions.

Table of Contents

  • Disc 2. Ascending the sacred waterfall : a ceremonial practice (11:09) -- Prince : the blue diamond spirit (6:08) -- Donald Aylerþs rainbow summit (7:06) -- Tony Williams (4:52) -- Mysterious night (7:30) -- Earth : a morning song (6:28) -- Minnie Riperton : the Chicago Bronzeville master blaster (13:03) --
  • Disc 1. Nyoto 1-3 (21:49) -- Baby Dodds in Congo Square (13:39) -- Celebration rhythms (6:41) -- Poetic sonics (5:25) -- The poet: play ebony, play ivory : (for Henry Dumas) (5:57) --
  • Disc 3. Social justice : a fire for reimagining the world (6:31) -- Myths of civilizations and revolutions (8:46) -- Truth in expansion (10:09) -- The healerþs direct energy (11:02) -- Waves of elevated horizontal forces (10:57) -- An epic journey inside the center of color (6:28) -- Ruby red largo : a sonnet (10:52).

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Sacred ceremonies

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Admin Metadata

  • Date: 2026-09-11T20:13:58.749518+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 22259833

Admin Metadata

  • Date: 2026-09-11
  • Cataloger id: Unknown
  • Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
  • Description language: eng
  • Description authentication: pcc

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