Kulture Jazz
{{Infobox album
| name = Kulture Jazz
| type = Album
| artist = Wadada Leo Smith
| cover = Kulture Jazz.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1993
| recorded = October 1992
| venue =
| studio = Hardstudios
Winterthur, Switzerland
| genre = Jazz
| length = 52:16
| label = ECM
ECM 1507
| producer = Steve Lake
| chronology = Leo Smith
| prev_title = Rastafari
| prev_year = 1983
| next_title = Tao-Njia
| next_year = 1996
}}
Kulture Jazz is a solo album by American jazz trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith, recorded in October 1992 and released on ECM the following year—Smith's second album for the label, following Divine Love (1979).[http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1500/1507.php ECM discography] accessed October 20, 2011{{cite web |title=Wadada Leo Smith discography |url=http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Leo_Smith.htm |website=Jazz Lists |publisher=jazzlists.com |accessdate=4 June 2018}}{{cite book |last1=Barnhart |first1=Scotty |title=The World of Jazz Trumpet: A Comprehensive History & Practical Philosophy |date=2005 |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |isbn=9780634095276 |page=233 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D_8d9R_OznsC&dq=Kulture+Jazz+leo+smith&pg=PA233 |accessdate=27 June 2019 |language=en}}{{cite web |last1=ACKERMANN |first1=KARL |date=9 March 2016 |title=Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith: A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/a-cosmic-rhythm-with-each-stroke-vijay-iyer-and-wadada-leo-smith-ecm-records-review-by-karl-ackermann.php |accessdate=8 July 2019 |website=All About Jazz |language=en}}
Reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}
| rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
| rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite web |last1=Larkin|first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofp007lark/page/n7/mode/2up |accessdate=31 August 2020 |page=4997|language=en}}
|rev3 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
|rev3score = {{rating|3.5|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |page=1278 |url=https://archive.org/details/penguinguidetoja00cook_1/page/1276/mode/2up |accessdate=31 August 2020 |language=en}}
}}
The AllMusic review by Eugene Chadbourne states, "The ECM folks do much better by Wadada Leo Smith than ever before with this solo recording, a true masterwork of its kind and one of the purest, most enlightening demonstrations of the connected natures of folk, blues, jazz, and creative music."Chadbourne, E. [https://www.allmusic.com/album/kulture-jazz-mw0000627306 AllMusic Review] accessed May 30, 2023
A reviewer of Jazz Desk stated: "This album is something like the musical equivalent of someone building his own house or boat or sewing his own clothes. It is Wadada Leo Smith alone in the studio playing trumpet, harmonica, bamboo flute, percussions, Asian and African instruments and singing. The music is very personal and at times almost has a meditative quality."{{cite web |title=The one man love orchestra of Wadada Leo Smith |url=https://jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2018/12/19/the-one-man-love-orchestra-of-wadada-leo-smith/ |website=Jazz Desk |accessdate=8 July 2019 |language=en |date=19 December 2018}}
Track listing
{{Track
| all_writing = Wadada Leo Smith
| title1 = Don't You Remember?
| length1 = 3:42
| title2 = Kulture of Jazz
| length2 = 5:33
| title3 = Song of Humanity (Kanto Pri Homaro)
| length3 = 3:36
| title4 = Fire-Sticks, Chrysanthemums and Moonlight (For Harumi)
| length4 = 3:42
| title5 = Seven Rings of Light in the Hola Trinity
| length5 = 2:26
| title6 = Louis Armstrong Counterpointing
| length6 = 2:43
| title7 = Albert Ayler in a Spiritual Light
| length7 = 4:44
| title8 = The Kemet Omega Reigns (For Billie Holiday)
| length8 = 5:02
| title9 = Love Supreme (For John Coltrane)
| length9 = 3:56
| title10 = Mississippi Delta Sunrise (For Bobbie)
| length10 = 3:55
| title11 = Mother: Sarah Brown-Smith-Wallace (1920–92)
| length11 = 4:06
| title12 = The Healer's Voyage on the Sacred River (For Ayl Kwel Armah)
| length12 = 3:46
| title13 = Uprising (For Jessie and Yvonne)
| length13 = 5:05
| total_length = 52:16
}}
Personnel
- Wadada Leo Smith – trumpet, flugelhorn, koto, mbira, harmonica, bamboo notch flute, percussion, vocals