Wadada Leo Smith: String Quartets Nos. 1-12

Disc 1

String Quartet No. 1 (1965-1982)

01. Movement 1 "Ulysses Simpson Kay (1917-1995)"

02. Movement 2 "Thomas Jefferson Anderson, Jr. (1928- )"

03. Movement 3 "Hale Smith (1925-2009)"

04. Movement 4 "George Theophilus Walker (1922-2018)"

05. String Quartet No. 2 (1969-1980)

Disc 2:

String Quartet No. 3 "Black Church: A First World Gathering of the Spirit" (1995)

01. Movement 1

02. Movement 2

String Quartet No. 4 (1987-2001)

03.Movement 1

04. Movement 2

05. Movement 3

06. Movement 4

07. Movement 5

Disc 3:

01.String Quartet No. 5 "In the Diaspora - Earthquakes and Sunrise Missions (Dedicated to Haki R. Madhubuti)" (2005)

02. String Quartet No. 6 "Taif: Prayer in the Garden of the Hijaz" (2007)

03. String Quartet No. 7 "Ten Thousand Ceveus Peruvianus Amemevical

Disc 4:

01.String Quartet No. 8 "Opuntia Humifusa" (2011)

String Quartet No. 9 (2001-2015)

02.Movement 1 Ma Rainey

03.Movement 2 Marian Anderson

04.String Quartet No. 10 "Angela Davis: Into the Morning Sunlight" (2007-2016)

Disc 5

String Quartet No. 11 (1975-2019)

01. Movement 1 "Shaikh Cerno Boka"

02. Movement 2 "Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)"

03. Movement 3 "Sarah Bell Brown-Smith (1920-1994)"

04. Movement 4 "Kashala Kiom Smith"

05. Movement 5 "At the Heart's Core, Knowledge (For UCLA Music Library)"

Disc 6:

String Quartet No. 11 (1975-2019)

01. Movement 6 "Sarhanna Kabell Smith"

02. Movement 7 "Bessie Smith (1894-1937)"

03. Movement 8 "Alvin Singleton (1940- )"

04. Movement 9 "Red Autumn's Gold (For Lucius G. Smith)"

Disc 7:

String Quartet No. 12 (2016-2018)

01.Movement 1 "Billie Holiday (1915-1959)"

02.Movement 2 "Pacifica"