Grade List: Wadada Leo Smith

  1. Wadada Leo Smith: Mass on the World (1978, Moers)
  2. Wadada Leo Smith: Divine Love (1978 [1979], ECM) B
  3. Wadada Leo Smith: Kabell Years, 1971-1979 (1971-1979 [2004], Tzadik) B+
  4. Wadada Leo Smith: Go in Numbers (1980, Black Saint)
  5. Wadada Leo Smith: Procession of the Great Ancestry (1983, Chief) B+
  6. Wadada Leo Smith: Rastafari (1983, Sackville)
  7. Wadada Leo Smith: Human Rights (1982-1985 [2009], Kabell) B+(*)
  8. Wadada Leo Smith [Ed Blackwell]: The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer (1986 [2010], Kabell) A-
  9. Wadada Leo Smith: Kulture Jazz (1992 [1995], ECM)
  10. Wadada Leo Smith: Tao-Njia (1993, Tzadik) B
  11. Wadada Leo Smith [Sabu Toyozumi]: Burning Meditation (1994 [2018], NoBusiness) A-
  12. Wadada Leo Smith [Vinny Golia, Bertram Turetzky]: Prataksis (1997, Nine Winds) B
  13. Wadada Leo Smith: Golden Hearts Remembrance (1997, Chapchap)
  14. Wadada Leo Smith: Light Upon Light (1999, Tzadik)
  15. Wadada Leo Smith: Reflectativity (1999 [2000], Tzadik)
  16. Wadada Leo Smith: Golden Quartet (2000, Tzadik)
  17. Wadada Leo Smith [Thomas Mapfumo]: Dreams and Secrets (2000, Anonymous Web) A-
  18. Wadada Leo Smith: Red Sulphur Sky (2001, Tzadik) B+
  19. Wadada Leo Smith: The Year of the Elephant (2002, Pi) B+
  20. Wadada Leo Smith: Luminous Axis (2003, Tzadik)
  21. Wadada Leo Smith [Anthony Braxton]: Organic Resonance (2003, Pi)
  22. Wadada Leo Smith [Anthony Braxton]: Saturn, Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Sweet Embrace (2003, Pi)
  23. Wadada Leo Smith: Lake Biwa (2002-2004 [2004], Tzadik) B+(*)
  24. Wadada Leo Smith: Tabligh (2005 [2008], Cuneiform) B+(**)
  25. Wadada Leo Smith: Dark Lady of the Sonnets (2007 [2011], TUM) B+(***)
  26. Wadada Leo Smith: Spiritual Dimensions (2008-2009 [2009], Cuneiform) A-
  27. Wadada Leo Smith [Jack DeJohnette]: America (2009, Tzadik) B+(***)
  28. Wadada Leo Smith: Heart's Reflections (2011, Cuneiform) A-
  29. Wadada Leo Smith: Ten Freedom Summers (2011 [2012], Cuneiform) B+(***)
  30. Wadada Leo Smith [Louis Moholo-Moholo]: Ancestors (2012, TUM) A-
  31. Wadada Leo Smith [TUMO]: Occupy the World (2012 [2013], TUM) B+(*)
  32. Wadada Leo Smith: The Great Lakes Suites (2012 [2014], TUM) A-
  33. Wadada Leo Smith [John Lindberg]: Celestial Weather (2012 [2015], TUM) B+(***)
  34. Wadada Leo Smith [Jamie Saft, Joe Morris, Balasz Pandi]: Red Hill (2014, Rare Noise) A-
  35. Wadada Leo Smith [Bill Laswell]: The Stone (Akashic Meditation) (2014, MOD Technologies) B+(*)
  36. Wadada Leo Smith: Najwa (2014 [2017], TUM) A-
  37. Wadada Leo Smith: Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk (2014-2015 [2017], TUM) B+(**)
  38. Wadada Leo Smith: America's National Parks (2016, Cuneiform) B+(***)
  39. Wadada Leo Smith [Natsuki Tamura, Satoko Fujii, Ikue Mori]: Aspiration (2017, Libra) B+(**)
  40. Wadada Leo Smith: Rosa Parks: Pure Love: An Oratorio of Seven Songs (2016-2017 [2019], TUM) B+(*)
  41. Wadada Leo Smith [Douglas R. Ewart, Mike Reed]: Sun Beans of Shimmering Light (2015 [2021], Astral Spirits) B+(***)
  42. Wadada Leo Smith: Trumpet (2016 [2021], TUM) B+(***)
  43. Wadada Leo Smith: Sacred Ceremonies (2015-2016 [2021], TUM) A-
  44. Wadada Leo Smith [Jack DeJohnette, Vijay Iyer]: A Love Sonnet for Billie Holiday (2016 [2021], TUM) B+(***)
  45. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet: The Chicago Symphonies (2015-2018 [2021], TUM) A-
  46. Wadada Leo Smith: The Emerald Duets (2014-2020 [2022], TUM) A-
  47. Wadada Leo Smith: String Quartets Nos. 1-12 (2015-2020 [2022], TUM) B+(***)
  48. Wadada Leo Smith [Amina Claudine Myers]: Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (2021 [2024], Red Hook) B+(*)
  49. Wadada Leo Smith: Fire Illuminations (2023, Kabell) A-

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