Album: Wadada Leo Smith's Organic, Heart's Reflection (Cuneiform)

Sunday 16 October 2011 00:00 BST

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The astonishing 20-minute opening track might be called "Don Cherry's Electric Sonic Garden", but it's the wheedling tone and furious backbeat of the late Miles Davis that veteran free-jazz trumpeter Smith makes you think of most.

Four electric guitarists among an ensemble of 14, with two laptop operatives squiggling away. You can argue that nothing on the double-CD quite equals it, or question the context of mystic spirituality, but Smith has made electric jazz sound dangerous again.

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Album: Wadada Leo Smith's Organic, Heart's Reflection (Cuneiform)