Leo Smith with Marion Brown

Leo Smith emerged in Chicago in the mid-sixties as a fresh new trumpet player within the creative milieu of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, a cultural-economicpolitical collective of black avant-garde musicians and composers which includes Muhal Richard Abrams and the Experimental Band; Joseph A. Jarman, Rosecoe Mitchell, Lester Bowie and the Art Ensemble of Chicago; Anthony Braxton, Leroy Jenkins, Maurice MyIntyre, Steve McCall and a wealth of other creative artists.

Leo has recorded with Richard Abrams (“Levels and Degrees of Light”) and with Maurice McIntyre (“Humility