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Creative Music - 1 is the first recording as a leader by American jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, which was released in 1972 on his own, privately pressed label Kabell. Subtitled "Six Solo Improvisations", the album featured Smith solo using trumpet, flugelhorn and various drums, gongs, bells, and home made percussion. It was reissued in 2004 as part of the four-CD box Kabell Years: 1971-1979, released by John Zorn's imprint Tzadik Records.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

In his review for AllMusic, Eugene Chadbourne notes that "The real plus of musician-run labels is that the listener has the possibility to receive a completely uncompromised, pure version of the artist's work, and, in the case of this album, that is one large treasure indeed."

Track listing

All compositions by Wadada Leo Smith.

"Nine (9) Stones on a Mountain" - 5:29
"Improvisation No. 4" - 7:16
"Creative Music - 1" - 11:54
"aFmie - Poem (solo) DancE 3" - 13:12
"Ogotommêli: Dogon Sage" - 8:14
"Ep - 1" - 3:01

Personnel

Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet, flugelhorn, seal horn, recorder, Indian wooden flute, harmonica, autoharp, hand zithers, bells, parade drum, hand drum, tin drum, aluminum pot drums, cymbals, mobile sounds-gong, metal-plates, steel-o-phone, gongs, Indian bell

References

Kabell Years: 1971-1979 Archived 2014-10-06 at the Wayback Machine at Wadada Leo Smith
"Wadada Leo Smith discography". Jazz Lists. jazzlists.com. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
^ Chadbourne, Eugene. Wadada Leo Smith - Creative Music - 1: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved September 27, 2014.
Larkin, Colin. "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music". p. 4997. Retrieved 31 August 2020.

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	Creative Music - 1 (1971) Divine Love (1978) Solo Music: Ahkreanvention (1979) Budding of a Rose (1979) Spirit Catcher (1979) Human Rights (1982) Procession of the Great Ancestry (1983) Rastafari (1983) Kulture Jazz (1992) Tao-Njia (1995) Golden Hearts Remembrance (1997) Prataksis (1997) Light Upon Light (released 1999) Reflectativity (2000) Golden Quartet (2000) Lake Biwa (2000-2004) Red Sulphur Sky (2001) The Year of the Elephant (2002) Luminous Axis (2002) Snakish (2005) Compassion (2002) Wisdom in Time (2006) Dark Lady of the Sonnets (2007) America (2008) Abbey Road Quartet (2008) Heart's Reflections (released 2011) Ancestors (2011) Occupy the World (2012) Sonic Rivers (2013) Red Hill (2014) The Great Lakes Suites (2012) Celestial Weather (2012) Najwa (2014) Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk (2014 & 2015) A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke (2015) Sacred Ceremonies (2015 & 2016) America's National Parks (2016)
Live albums	Reflectativity (1974) Song of Humanity (1976) The Mass on the World (1978) Touch the Earth (1979) Go in Numbers (1980) If You Want the Kernels You Have to Break the Shells (1981) The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer (1986) Condor, Autumn Wind (1997) Organic Resonance (2003) Saturn, Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Sweet Embrace (2003) Tabligh (2005) Spiritual Dimensions (2008 & 2009) Ten Freedom Summers (2011) June 6th 2013 (2013)
Compilations	Kabell Years: 1971–1979

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