Divine Love (album)

Divine Love
Studio album by Leo Smith
Released	1979
Recorded	September 1978
Genre	Jazz
Length	45:53
Label	ECM
Producer	Manfred Eicher
Leo Smith chronology
The Mass on the World (1978) Divine Love (1978) Budding of a Rose (1979)

Divine Love is an album by American jazz trumpeter and composer Leo Smith recorded in 1978 and released on the ECM label.^[1]

Reception

The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested Core Collection.^[2]

The Allmusic review by Eugene Chadbourne awarded the album 4 stars stating "His scores from this time were very well-thought-out and demanded a special type of concentration from the performers, moving into areas quite different than the usual intensity build-up of free jazz or the theme-improvise-theme standards of much that came before".^[3]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Penguin Guide to Jazz	[2]
Allmusic	[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Leo Smith

1. "Divine Love" - 21:47
2. "Tastalun" - 6:38
3. "Spirituals: Language of Love" - 15:28

• Recorded at Tonstudio Bauer in Ludwigsburg, West Germany in September 1978

Personnel

• Leo Smith - trumpet, flugelhorn, gong, percussion
• Dwight Andrews - alto flute, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, triangles, mbira
• Bobby Naughton - vibraharp, marimba, bells
• Lester Bowie, Kenny Wheeler - trumpet (track 2)
• Charlie Haden - bass (track 3)

References

1. ^ ECM discography accessed September 13, 2011
2. ^ ^{a b} Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. "Wadada Leo Smith". The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed. ed.). New York: Penguin. pp. 1309. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0. 
3. ^ ^{a b} Chadbourne, E. Allmusic Review accessed September 13, 2011