Wadada Leo Smith Songtexte
A Rainbow Sonic Ark for Tomasz Ludwik Stańko (1942-2018)

1. String Quartet No. 1: Ulysses Simpson Kay
2. String Quartet No. 1: Thomas Jefferson Anderson, Jr.
3. String Quartet No. 1: Hale Smith
4. String Quartet No. 1: George Theophilius Walker
5. String Quartet No. 2

1. String Quartet No. 3 “Black Church: A First World Gathering of the Spirit”: Movement 1
2. String Quartet No. 3 “Black Church: A First World Gathering of the Spirit”: Movement 2
3. String Quartet No. 4: Movement 1
4. String Quartet No. 4: Movement 2
5. String Quartet No. 4: Movement 3
6. String Quartet No. 4: Movement 4
7. String Quartet No. 4: Movement 5

1. String Quartet No. 5 “In the Diaspora – Earthquakes and Sunrise Missions”
2. String Quartet No. 6 “Taif: Prayer n the Garden of the Hijaz”
3. String Quartet No. 7 “Ten Thousand Ceveus Peruvianus Amemevical (In rememberance of Dorothy Ann Stone)”

1. String Quartet No. 8 “Opunta Humifusa”
2. String Quartet No. 9: Ma Rainey
3. String Quartet No. 9: Marian Anderson
4. String Quartet No. 10 “Angela Davis: Into the Morning Sunlight”

1. String Quartet No. 11: Shaikh Cerno Boka
2. String Quartet No. 11: Louis Armstrong
3. String Quartet No. 11: Sarah Bell Brown‐Smith
4. String Quartet No. 11: Kashala Kiom Smith
5. String Quartet No. 11: At the Heart’s Core, Knowledge (For UCLA Music Library)

1. String Quartet No. 11: Sarhanna Kabell Smith
2. String Quartet No. 11: Bessie Smith
3. String Quartet No. 11: Alvin Singleton
4. String Quartet No. 11: Red Autumn’s Gold (For Lucius G. Smith)

1. String Quartet No. 12: Billie Holiday
2. String Quartet No. 12: Pacifica

1. Another Wave More Waves
2. Double Thunderbolt
3. Tao-Njia

1. Dred Scott: 1857
2. Malik Al Shabazz and the People of the Shahada
3. Emmett Till: Defiant, Fearless
4. Thurgood Marshall and Brown Vs. Board of Education: A Dream of Equal Education, 1954
5. John F. Kennedy's New Frontier and the Space Age, 1960

1. Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 381 Days
2. Black Church
3. Freedom Summer: Voter Registration, Acts of Compassion and Empowerment, 1964
4. Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society and the Civil Rights Act of 1964

1. The Freedom Riders Ride
2. Medgar Evers: A Love-Voice of a Thousand Years' Journey for Liberty and Justice
3. The D.C. Wall: A War Memorial for All Times
4. Buzzsaw: The Myth of a Free Press
5. The Little Rock Nine: A Force for Desegregation in Education, 1957

1. America, Parts 1, 2 & 3
2. September 11th, 2001: A Memorial
3. Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1964
4. Democracy
5. Martin Luther King, Jr: Memphis, the Prophecy

Litanies, Prayers and Meditations

1. The Prayer (For Keith Jarrett)
2. First Meditation From the Heart: The Beauty, the Beloved
3. The Uyghur in Xinjiang, China
4. Rumi’s Masnavi: A Sonic Expression (Part I)
5. Rumi’s Masnavi: A Sonic Expression (Part II)
6. Rumi’s Masnavi: A Sonic Expression (Part III)
7. Rumi’s Masnavi: A Sonic Expression (Part IV)
8. A Sonic Litany on Peace
9. The Patriot Act, Unconstitutional and a Force That Destroys Democracy
10. A Sonic Litany on Justice
11. Second Meditation From the Heart: The Beloved, the Beauty

Havana, Cuba

1. The Patriot Act, Unconstitutional and a Force That Destroys Democracy
2. Havana, the Maghrib Prayer and Reflections
3. United States Representative Ilhan Omar
4. Jeanne Lee: In a Jupiter Mood
5. Donald Ayler: The Master of the Sound and Energy Forms
6. A Rainbow Sonic Ark for Tomasz Ludwik Stańko (1942-2018)
7. Haiti, an Independent Nation in 1804 but Not Recognized by Britain, France, Germany, the United States and Others: A Designed Tragedy!
8. Mongezi Feza

Mysterious Sonic Fields

1. Chrysanthemum Flowers on a Mountaintop (For Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson)
2. Largo: A Mysterious Love Sonic (For Shana, Robeson and Sarah)
3. Louis Armstrong in New York City and Accra, Ghana
4. Albert Einstein: Particles of Light, a Study in Perception
5. Ornette Coleman at the World’s Fair of Science and Art in Fort Worth, Texas
6. The Call - A Duet Between Joseph "King" Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton
7. Light Garden in a Dream-Space, a Remembrance of Shaba of Ethiopia
8. Han Bennink on Fifth Avenue, NYC
9. Johnny Dyani, the Artist Who Imagined a New South Africa. A Celebration

Freedom Summer, the Legacy

1. Sandalwood and Sage
2. Freedom Summer
3. Meditation: A Sonic Circle of Double Piano Resonances
4. The Patriot Act, Unconstitutional and a Force That Destroys Democracy
5. Silence, Quietness and Very Still

Paradise: The Gardens and Fountains

1. Paradise: The Gardens and Fountains (Part I the River of Abundance)
2. Paradise: The Gardens and Fountains (Part II the Fountain of Tasnim)
3. Paradise: The Gardens and Fountains (Part III the Supreme Fountain)
4. Paradise: The Gardens and Fountains (Part IV Exaltation and Musk)
5. Paradise: The Gardens and Fountains (Part V Pomegranates and Herbal Teas)