Billie Holiday: A Love Sonnet - Wadada Leo Smith

Billie Holiday, a Love Sonnet is the first track from Wadada Leo Smith, Vijay Iyer & Jack DeJohnette: A Love Sonnet for Billie Holiday, available November 19, 2021 via TUM Records. Wadada Leo Smith first met and played with Jack DeJohnette in the late 1960s and the two have collaborated with increasing frequency since DeJohnette participated in the first recording of Smith’s Golden Quartet more than two decades ago. Smith’s and Iyer’s first collaboration, in a later edition of the Golden Quartet, also goes back almost two decades. Nevertheless, the recording of A Love Sonnet For Billie Holiday marks the first time these three unique artists have participated in the same project and also the first time DeJohnette and Iyer have played together. In a true collaborative spirit, A Love Sonnet For Billie Holiday features compositions by all three participants.