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1978 live album by Wadada Leo Smith

The Mass on the World

Live album by Wadada Leo Smith

Released

1978

Recorded

May 15, 1978

Venue

International New Jazz Festival Moers

Genre

Jazz

Length

38:45

Label

Moers Music 01060

Producer

Burkhard Hennen

Wadada Leo Smith chronology

Song of Humanity
(1977)

The Mass on the World
(1978)

Solo Music: Ahkreanvention
(1979)

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Allmusic
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
The Penguin Guide to Jazz

The Mass on the World is a live album by jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith released in 1978 by German Moers Music label. The album was recorded at the seventh Moers Festival in Freizeitpark, Moers, Germany, on May 15, 1978. The songs and album title are borrowed from Teilhard de Chardin’s Hymn of the Universe, a poetic and impressionistic account of the spiritual world initially published in 1961.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Wadada Leo Smith

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Offering"	07:31
2.	"Fire Over the Earth"	07:38
3.	"Fire in the Earth"	05:52
4.	"Communion"	02:38
5.	"Prayer"	07:25
6.	"Kweli (Truth)"	07:41
Total length:		38:45

Personnel

Leo Smith – trumpet, fluegelhorn, flute, percussion
Dwight Andrews – reeds
Bobby Naughton – vibraphone, percussion

References

"Wadada Leo Smith: The Mass on the World". Allmusic. Allmusic. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
Larkin, Colin. "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music". p. 4997. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (1992). The Penguin guide to jazz on CD. Penguin. p. 996. ISBN 9780140153644. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
"Mass on the World". Discogs. discogs.com. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
"Leo Smith Trio: The Mass on the World". Destination Out. destination-out.com. 1 August 2012. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
Bruyninckx, Walter (1983). Progressive jazz: free--third stream fusion. 60 Years of Recorded Jazz Team. p. 1252. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
Lord, Tom (1992). The Jazz Discography. Lord Music Reference. p. 12. ISBN 9781881993131. Retrieved 26 June 2019.

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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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