Go in Numbers

Go in Numbers is an album by American jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith which was recorded live in 1980 and released on the Italian Black Saint label. He leads the New Dalta Akhri, a quartet with Dwight Andrews, Bobby Naughton and Wes Brown.^[1]

Go in Numbers
Live album by Wadada Leo Smith
Released	1982
Recorded	January 19, 1980
Venue	The Kitchen, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Length	43:57
Label	Black Saint
Producer	Wadada Leo Smith
Wadada Leo Smith chronology
Touch the Earth (1980) Go in Numbers (1982) If You Want the Kernels You Have to Break the Shells (1983)

Reception

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Source	Rating
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[4]

The Penguin Guide to Jazz notes about the title track that "'Smith's opening figures seem to contain half-remembered elements of Ives' The Unanswered Question. Elsewhere he sounds uncannily like a slowed-up version of Don Cherry, an influence that was to seem ever more pressing in years to come."^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Wadada Leo Smith

1. "The World Soul" - 3:50
2. "Go in Numbers" - 16:59
3. "Illumination: The Nguzo Saba" - 16:09
4. "Changes" - 6:59

Personnel

• Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet, flugelhorn, atenteben flute
• Dwight Andrews - tenor sax, soprano sax, flute
• Bobby Naughton - vibraphone
• Wes Brown - bass, odurogyaba flute

References

1. "Wadada Leo Smith discography". Jazz Lists. jazzlists.com. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
2. Larkin, Colin. "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music". archive.org. p. 4997. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
3. Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (6th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 1360. ISBN 0-14-051521-6.
4. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 183. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.