Rastafari (album)
{{Infobox album
| name = Rastafari
| type = studio
| artist = Wadada Leo Smith
| cover = Rastafari_Leo_Smith_cover.jpeg
| alt =
| released = 1983
| recorded = June 12, 1983
| venue =
| studio = McClear Place Studios, Toronto
| genre = Jazz
| length = 39:41
| label = Sackville
| producer = Bill Smith
| chronology = Wadada Leo Smith
| prev_title = Procession of the Great Ancestry
| prev_year = 1989
| next_title = Kulture Jazz
| next_year = 1993
}}
Rastafari is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith with the Bill Smith ensemble, released in 1983 on the Canadian Sackville label.{{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}} The trumpeter considers the recording a cooperative effort, it is Bill Smith, co-founder of Sackville and producer of the album, who made it a "Leo Smith record".Original liner notes by Bill Shoemaker It was reissued on CD in 2003 with new artwork by Boxholder.[http://wadadaleosmith.com/pages/Rastafari.html Rastafari] at Wadada Leo Smith
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
| rev3Score = {{rating|3.5|4}}{{cite web |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz: 4-Star Records in 8th Edition |url=http://tomhull.com/ocston/nm/notes/pjazz7-8x-01.php |publisher=Tom Hull |accessdate=9 July 2020}}
| rev4 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
| rev4Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{Cite book
|editor-last=Swenson
|editor-first=J.
| author-link =
| year = 1985
| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone
| location = USA
| isbn = 0-394-72643-X
| pages = 183
}}
}}
In his review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow states: "The playing by these adventurous musicians is advanced and quite free on the four group originals, and all five players share equally in the creation of these fresh explorations."{{allMusic|last=Yanow|first=Scott|class=album|id=mw0000035690|title=Wadada Leo Smith - Rastafari: Review|accessdate=October 6, 2014}}
Track listing
- "Rastafari" (Wadada Leo Smith) - 7:30
- "Rituals" (Bill Smith) - 11:56
- "Madder Lake" (David Prentice) - 11:05
- "Little Bits" (Bill Smith) - 9:10
Personnel
- Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion, harmonica
- Bill Smith - soprano sax, sopranino sax, alto clarinet
- David Prentice - violin
- David Lee - bass, cello
- Larry Potter - vibraphone