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Procession: Defiant Life

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Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith

This planned improvisation by two jazz masters was so extraordinary, we had to arrange it and preserve it. Wadada Leo Smith and Vijay Iyer begin at odds, their voices in deliberate tension — but as the piece unfolds, they listen, adapt, and ultimately find common ground, arriving at a profound and moving synthesis.