Divine Love (album)

Divine Love
Studio album by Leo Smith
Released 1979
Recorded September 1978
Genre Jazz
Length 45:53
Label ECM
Producer Manfred Eicher
Leo Smith chronology
The Mass on the World
(1978)		 Divine Love
(1978)		 Budding of a Rose
(1979)

Divine Love is an album by American jazz trumpeter and composer Leo Smith recorded in 1978 and released on the ECM label.[1]

Contents

Reception

The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested Core Collection.[2]

The Allmusic review by Eugene Chadbourne 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".[3]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Penguin Guide to Jazz [2]
Allmusic [3]

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

References

  1. ^ ECM discography accessed September 13, 2011
  2. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. "Wadada Leo Smith". The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed. ed.). New York: Penguin. pp. 1309. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0. 
  3. ^ a b Chadbourne, E. Allmusic Review accessed September 13, 2011