Wadada Leo Smith´s latest album features "Rosa Parks: Pure Love. An Oratorio of Seven Songs,"another extended composition by Smith inspired by the civil rights movement in the United States. This new major work is composed for the iconic civil rights hero Rosa Parks (1913-2005) and performed by three vocalists, a double-quartet and a drummer with electronics.

Wadada Leo Smith composer, trumpet
Diamond Voices, RedKoral Quartet, BlueTrumpet Quartet, Janus Duo
Texts by Wadada Leo Smith, except text for "No Fear" by Rosa Parks

01 Prelude: Journey
02 Vision Dance 1: Resistance and Unity
03 Rosa Parks: Mercy, Music for Double Quartet
04 Song 1: The Montgomery Bus Boycott - 381 Days of Fire
05 Song 2: The First Light, Gold
06 Vision Dance 2: Defiance, Justice and Liberation
07 Song 3: Change It!
08 Song 4: The Truth
09 Song 5: No Fear
10 Vision Dance 3: Rosa´s Blue Lake
11 Song 6: The Second Light
12 Vision Dance 4: A Blue Casa
13 Song 7: Pure Love
14 The Known World: Apartheid
15 Postlude: Victory!