Smith, Wadada Leo, 1941- (Personal Name)

Latest releases (2009) continue use of Wadada Leo Smith rather than Ismail or Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith.

His The Mass on the world [SR] ca. 1980: label (Leo Smith, composition, trumpet, flugelhorn, other instruments)

Feather. Encyc. jazz 70s, c1976 (Smith, Leo, b. 12/18/41 in Leland, Miss.)

Smith, L. Kulture jazz [SR] p1993: label (Wadada Leo Smith)

CMS dir., 1995/96: p. 34 (Smith, Wadada Leo)

http://shoko.calarts.edu/faculty (Wadada Leo Smith)

Music index: -1985-86 (Smith, Leo) 1987-88- (Smith, Leo (Wadada))

Schwann spectrum, winter 1996-1997 (Smith, Leo; Smith, Wadada Leo)

All music guide to jazz, 3rd ed. (Smith, Leo; changed his name to Wadada Leo Smith after becoming a Rastafarian in the 1980's)

OCLC database, Feb. 24, 1999 (variants: Leo Smith, in sound recordings recorded or released, and scores, through 1989; Wadada Leo Smith, in all items recorded or released 1991- )

Min Xiao-Fen with six composers, p1998: container (Ismail Wadada Leo Smith)

Wikipedia, Mar. 17, 2010 (Wadada Leo Smith; Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith; b. Dec. 18, 1941, Leland, Miss.; trumpeter and composer working primarily in the fields of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation)

Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith WWW site, Mar. 17, 2010 (Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith; trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser)

Smith, W.L. Spiritual dimensions [SR] p2009: label (Wadada Leo Smith)