Kaiser, Henry/Wadada Leo Smith / Sky Garden
Album: Sky Garden   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Kaiser, Henry/Wadada Leo Smith   Added:May 2004
Label:Cuneiform Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2004-06-28 Pull Date: 2004-08-30 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Aug 29 Aug 22 Aug 15 Aug 8 Aug 1 Jul 25 Jul 18 Jul 11
Airplays: 2 2 3 6 2 4 3 2

Recent Airplay
1. May 22, 2010: Music Casserole
Sivad/Gemini Double Image...
4. Nov 30, 2007: "In Your Ear ..." with David Bug, 10 hours of sound caressing your ears
Shinjuku
2. May 09, 2008: "In Your Ear ..." with David Bug, a long travel 'til the morning sun
Shinjuku
5. Sep 28, 2007: "In Your Ear ..." w/ d.Bug, for the one I want to be with someday, hopefully.
Great Expectations
3. Mar 06, 2008: "In Your Ear ..." w/ d.Bug, 4 hours in the afternoon and into the night w/music
Shinjuku
6. Sep 10, 2004: Zig Zag
Great Expectations

Album Review
Popcorn
Reviewed 2004-06-23
Kaiser and Smith channel Miles with a lot of good
help, including Zakir Hussein and Michael Manring.
They take his improv formulae and do their own
notes on top of it. Eras from Silent Way through
Agharta. Quiet, raucous, free form, bop, all here.
Some originals.
CD1
1) mid tempo, then slow blues, then amorphous
2) slow build, Bitches haunt the place
*3) meditational start, then rockout ala Jack Johnson
4) tabla/trumpet duet raga type intro, then caravan ,with a saz solo
5) fast bop
CD2
*1) slow almost draggy, loose horn lost in mist
2) continue 1, muted trumpet&guitar,
in a quiet way
*3) easy rollin, nonrhythmic tabla, wandering in a
dream, then space into scattered keys
4) long quiet groove, a sunday stroll,
man with a horn
5) sax/drum, slow meditative
6) snappy, more angular, but still mellow

Gary

Track Listing
1. It's About Time/The Mask   6. Sivad/Gemini Double Image...
2. Jabali (Part 1)   7. Miles Star
3. Shinjuku   8. Who's Targeted?
4. Great Expectations   9. Jabali (Part 2)
5. Directions   10. Willie Dixon
  11. Cozy Pete