America's National Parks

America's National Parks
Studio album by Wadada Leo Smith
Released	October 14, 2016
Recorded	May 5, 2016
Studio	Firehouse 12, New Haven
Genre	Jazz
Label	Cuneiform

America's National Parks is an album by Wadada Leo Smith.

Smith was given a copy of the Ken Burns documentary The National Parks: America's Best Idea and wanted to go beyond the concepts in it: "I wanted to expand the idea of national parks, and also not make them into cathedrals, sacred ground for some kind of religious endeavor, as Burns did". He wanted to challenge the conventional notion of national parks as only areas of nature: "I say that New Orleans is a national culture park because in America the first community that developed culturally was New Orleans, [...] So why not think of that whole city as a common cultural beacon that happened spontaneously, with all the contradictions of human rights that were taking place there?"

America's National Parks was released by Cuneiform Records on October 14, 2016.

Disc one

Disc two

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