Divine Love (album)

Divine Love
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

Divine Love is an album by American jazz trumpeter and composer Leo Smith recorded in 1978 and released on the ECM label.^[1]^[2]

Reception[]

The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested Core Collection.^[3]

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".^[4]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[5]
Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[6]
Tom Hull	B^[7]

Track listing[]

All compositions by Leo Smith

"Divine Love" - 21:47
"Tastalun" - 6:38
"Spirituals: Language of Love" - 15:28

- Recorded at Tonstudio Bauer in Ludwigsburg, West Germany in September 1978

Personnel[]

Leo Smith - trumpet, flugelhorn, gong, percussion
- alto flute, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, triangles, mbira
Bobby Naughton - vibraharp, marimba, bells
Lester Bowie, Kenny Wheeler - trumpet (track 2)
Charlie Haden - bass (track 3)

References[]

^ ECM discography Archived 2012-10-06 at the Wayback Machine accessed September 13, 2011
^ "Wadada Leo Smith discography". Jazz Lists. jazzlists.com. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. "Wadada Leo Smith". The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 1309. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Chadbourne, E. Allmusic Review accessed September 13, 2011
^ Larkin, Colin. "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music". p. 4997. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 183. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ "Tom Hull: Grade List: Wadada Leo Smith". Tom Hull. Retrieved 9 July 2020.

[ECM_discography-1] ECM discography Archived 2012-10-06 at the Wayback Machine accessed September 13, 2011

[2] "Wadada Leo Smith discography". Jazz Lists. jazzlists.com. Retrieved 4 June 2018.

[Penguin_Guide-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. "Wadada Leo Smith". The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 1309. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.

[Allmusic-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b Chadbourne, E. Allmusic Review accessed September 13, 2011

[5] Larkin, Colin. "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music". p. 4997. Retrieved 31 August 2020.

[RSJRG-6] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 183. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

[7] "Tom Hull: Grade List: Wadada Leo Smith". Tom Hull. Retrieved 9 July 2020.

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