{"id":2414,"date":"2012-02-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomajazz.com\/web\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2016-12-23T10:41:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T09:41:46","slug":"wadada-leo-smiths-mbira-dark-lady-of-the-sonnets-tum-records-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wadada-leo-smiths-mbira-dark-lady-of-the-sonnets-tum-records-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Wadada Leo Smith\u2019s Mbira: Dark Lady of the Sonnets (TUM Records, 2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28283 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Wadada-Leo-Smith\u2019s-Mbira_Dark-Lady-of-the-Sonnets_TUM-Records_2012.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"180\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Wadada-Leo-Smith\u2019s-Mbira_Dark-Lady-of-the-Sonnets_TUM-Records_2012.png 200w, https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Wadada-Leo-Smith\u2019s-Mbira_Dark-Lady-of-the-Sonnets_TUM-Records_2012-61x55.png 61w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Cuatro a\u00f1os ha tardado en ver la luz <i>Dark Lady of the Sonnets<\/i>, el estreno del grupo <b>Mbira <\/b>liderado por el trompetista <b>Wadada Leo Smith<\/b>. Le acompa\u00f1an en este tr\u00edo con una formaci\u00f3n no demasiado habitual (por no decir in\u00e9dita) la int\u00e9rprete de <i>pipa <\/i>(instrumento chino de cuatro cuerdas) <b>Min Xiao-Fen<\/b>, y el baterista <b>Pheeroan akLaff<\/b>. <b>Wadada <\/b>da muestras a lo largo de todo el disco de su habilidad como compositor. En algunos casos sus composiciones suenan como peque\u00f1as suites en las que no escasea el espacio para la improvisaci\u00f3n de los tres m\u00fasicos. Un magn\u00edfico ejemplo es \u00abSarah Bell Wallace\u00bb, el tema que abre el CD. Este se inicia con una improvisaci\u00f3n por parte de Min Xiao-Fen a la que se unen <b>Pheeroan akLaff <\/b>y finalmente <b>Wadada Leo Smith<\/b>. Durante los cuatro minutos iniciales los tres m\u00fasicos van trenzando sus improvisaciones hasta llegar a una segunda parte. All\u00ed el tema comienza su desarrollo en forma de un magn\u00edfico d\u00fao entre <b>akLaff <\/b>y <b>Smith<\/b>, que al cabo de dos minutos se convierte en tr\u00edo dando la bienvenida a <b>Xiao-Fen<\/b> y que toma forma por medio de unas magn\u00edficas interacciones (que son uno de los valores principales durante toda la brabaci\u00f3n), antes de pasar a la parte final y mostrar una nueva melod\u00eda. A lo largo del disco la pipa aporta su componente \u00e9tnico, que aparece destacado en las fases en que <b>Xiao-Fen<\/b> interviene en solitario. Por el contrario, cuando la asi\u00e1tica interact\u00faa con la trompeta y\/o la bater\u00eda muestra sus posibilidades para sonar libremente. Un buen ejemplo es la inicialmente suave y delicada \u201cDark Lady of the Sonnets\u201d (que se inicia con la voz y la <b>pipa <\/b>de la m\u00fasico asi\u00e1tica), que en su parte final se transforma en una m\u00fasica libre y de gran intensidad, o el inicio libre de \u201cBlues: Cosmic Beauty\u201d con Wadada Leo Smith liderando al tr\u00edo, que conduce de un modo sutil a una fase de suavidad.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a9 Pachi Tapiz, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Wadada Leo Smith\u2019s Mbira: <i>Dark Lady of the Sonnets <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Wadada Leo Smith (trompeta, fiscorno y composiciones), Min Xiao-Fen (pipa y voz), Pheeroan akLaff (bater\u00eda)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSarah Bell Wallace\u201d, \u201cBlues: Cosmic Beauty\u201d, \u201cZulu Water Festival\u201d, \u201cDark Lady of the Sonnets\u201d, \u201cMbira\u201d<br \/>\nGrabado el 24 y 25 de enero de 2007 en SoundTeam Godzinsky Studio, Kirkkonummi, Finlandia. Publicado en 2011 por Tum Records. TUM CD 023. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tumrecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.tumrecords.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuatro a\u00f1os ha tardado en ver la luz Dark Lady of the Sonnets, el estreno del grupo Mbira liderado por el trompetista Wadada Leo Smith. Le acompa\u00f1an en este tr\u00edo con una formaci\u00f3n no demasiado habitual (por no decir in\u00e9dita) la int\u00e9rprete de pipa (instrumento chino de cuatro cuerdas) Min<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wadada-leo-smiths-mbira-dark-lady-of-the-sonnets-tum-records-2012\/\">Contin\u00faa leyendo<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17847,5,15517,1038],"tags":[12651,12696,13,12415,15295,16099,77,16100],"class_list":["entry","author-pachi","post-2414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pachi-tapiz","category-grabaciones","category-textos","category-contenidos","tag-cd","tag-grabaciones","tag-jazz","tag-jazz-en-espana","tag-jazz-en-espanol","tag-toma-jazz","tag-tomajazz","tag-tomajazz-toma-jazz"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Wadada-Leo-Smith\u2019s-Mbira_Dark-Lady-of-the-Sonnets_TUM-Records_2012.png","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":100183,"url":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/sylvie-courvoisier-wadada-leo-smith-angel-falls-2025\/","url_meta":{"origin":2414,"position":0},"title":"Sylvie Courvoisier &#038; Wadada Leo Smith: Angel Falls (Intakt Records; 2025) Por Pachi Tapiz [Grabaci\u00f3n de jazz]","author":"Tomajazz","date":"6 octubre, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Angel Falls (Intakt Records; 2025) es la nueva grabaci\u00f3n de Sylvie Courvoisier & Wadada Leo Smith. 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