The live spark and open surrender of musical dialogue has long been a founding principle for trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and pianist Vijay Iyer. Each is a justly heralded composer who often strikes a ...

“i seek another dimension in music,” the trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith wrote in his 1973 book notes (8 pieces) source a new world music: creative music. Like an astrophysicist, he discovered that ...

While Superstar Vijay's Tamil film Leo took weeks to reach its lifetime total at the Kerala Box Office, Empuraan has stormed past it in less than a week. From the moment it hit the screens ...

Wadada Leo Smith (left) and Vijay Iyer have known and collaborated with each other for decades. They have just released their second album as a duo, Defiant Life, with Smith on trumpet and Iyer on ...

As passionate as each man is intelligent, both pianist/composer Vijay Iyer and trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith also manifest healthy egos. Accordingly, collaborations like Defiant Life require ...