Wadada Leo Smith – Finalist for Pulitzer Prize

Wadada Leo Smith, composer of and performer on the amazing recording, Ten Freedom Summers, released on Cuneiform Records, was a finalist in the 97th Annual Pulitzer Prize for Music.  The award is given to an American Composer of a distinguished composition having its first performance or recording in the United States during the previous year.  Smith’s Ten Freedom Summers recording, released on May 22, 2012, is an expansive jazz work that memorializes 10 key moments in the history of civil rights in America, fusing composed and improvised passages into powerful, eloquent music.