The Chicago Symphonies

Album by Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Gold Symphony No. 1: Movement 1 - Light Fields and Circles: Amina Claudine Myers / Voices
    9:34
  2. 2.
    Gold Symphony No. 1: Movement 2 - Joyful, Sound and the Numbers / People: The Art Ensemble of Chicago
    9:29
  3. 3.
    Gold Symphony No. 1: Movement 3 - Pastoral: Joseph Jarman / As If It Were the Seasons of Seasons / Sherry Scott, Voice / Thurman Barker, Charles Clark and Christopher Gaddy
    7:16
  4. 4.
    Gold Symphony No. 1: Movement 4 - Creative Music / West End Blues and the Sonic Weather Bird: Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines, Lil Hardin and Baby Dodds
    10:48
  5. 5.
    Gold Symphony No. 1: Movement 5 - Star-Fields: The Secretary, John S. Jackson
    2:44

Disc 2

  1. 1.
    Diamond Symphony No. 2: Movement 1 - The Rare Air Songs in Sonic Forms and Metrical Folding: Henry Threadgill, Steve McCall and Fred Hopkins
    12:12
  2. 2.
    Diamond Symphony No. 2: Movement 2 - Chicago: Culture, Creativity and the Artistic Passion / A Profile of the Next Generations
    6:51
  3. 3.
    Diamond Symphony No. 2: Movement 3 - Muhal Richard Abrams: Levels and Degrees of the Light Spectrums / A New Culture: The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians
    10:25
  4. 4.
    Diamond Symphony No. 2: Movement 4 - Jack DeJohnette: A Special Edition, New Directions and the Sonic Rhythm Units
    7:07

Disc 3

  1. 1.
    Pearl Symphony No. 3: Movement 1 - For Alto / In the Orchestra: N-M488 / Anthony Braxton: Operas
    10:48
  2. 2.
    Pearl Symphony No. 3: Movement 2 - Leroy Jenkins Mixed Quintet Sonics: Dance Opera
    3:07
  3. 3.
    Pearl Symphony No. 3: Movement 3 - Heliocentric Sun Ra's Energy and Particles of Light
    7:00
  4. 4.
    Pearl Symphony No. 3: Movement 4 - Jupiter Skies: Kelan Phil Cohran and the Chicago Kulture
    11:06
  5. 5.
    Pearl Symphony No. 3: Movement 5 - Scented Yellow and Red Chrysanthemums / Wadada Leo Smith: The Bell in Silence and Ten Freedom Summers
    6:45

Disc 4

  1. 1.
    Sapphire Symphony No. 4: Movement 1 - Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States of America
    6:02
  2. 2.
    Sapphire Symphony No. 4: Movement 2 - Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg: Two Seven Two, 1863
    11:18
  3. 3.
    Sapphire Symphony No. 4: Movement 3 - The Visionaries, Abraham Lincoln and Barack Hussein Obama
    10:44
  4. 4.
    Sapphire Symphony No. 4: Movement 4 - Barack Hussein Obama at Selma: The Bridge of Transformation
    15:06
  5. 5.
    Sapphire Symphony No. 4: Movement 5 - Barack Hussein Obama, the 44th President of the United States of America
    6:03

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