BLACK COMPOSER
CD RECORDINGS - 1997
Updated 2008

Supplements the document:  Comprehensive Reference Guide to Black Composer Recordings
RELEASE YEAR

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1999		 1998 ▼
1997		 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990

Composers recorded in 1997

  • Alston, Lettie Beckon

  • Banfield, William

  • Bonds, Margaret

  • Burleigh, Henry Thacker

  • Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel

  • Dickerson, Roger

  • Fox, Donal

  • Hailstork, Adolphus

 

  • Johnson, John Rosamond

  • León, Tania

  • Mumford, Jeffrey

  • Smith, Hale

  • Taylor, Billy

  • White, Dolores
CD releases
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Welcome Christèmas / Nestor, American Repertory Singers

     Arsis   # 108

     Released: October 1997

Carter, John - We Have Seen His Star

Alma Gluck

     Marston   #: 52001

     Released: October 1997

Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
     - African Romances (7), Op. 17: no 4, Dawn

Dark Fires - 20th Century Music For Piano / Karen Walwyn 

     Albany Records   # 266

     Released: October 1997

León, Tania

     - Rituál

Smith, Hale

     - Evocation

Alston, Lettie Beckon
     - Rhapsodies (3) for Piano
Dickerson, Roger
     - Sonatina for Piano
Mumford, Jeffrey
     - Fragments from the surrounding evening
Hailstork, Adolphus
     - Sonata for Piano no 1
White, Dolores
     - Toccata for Piano

Fox: Gone City / Donal Fox

     New World Records   # 80515
     Released: August 1997

Fox, Donal

     - River Town Packin House Blues

     - T-Cell Countdown

     - Gone City

     - The Old People Speak Of Death

     - Ballade for Clarinet and Piano

     - Jazz sets with T. T.

     - Following the north star boogaloo

Sonoric Rituals - Latin American Piano Music / Marchena 

     Albany Records   # 242

     Released: August 1997

León, Tania

     - Rituál

 

 

 

 

 

Women's Voices - Five Centuries Of Song / Pilgrim, et. al.

     Leonarda   # 338

     Released: February 1997
Bonds, Margaret
     - Dream Portraits (3): no 1, Minstrel Man

The Essential Leontyne Price - Spirituals, Hymns, etc

     RCA Victor Gold Seal   # 68157

     Released: January 1997

Burleigh, Henry Thacker

     - Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit

     - Let us Cheer the Weary Traveler

Johnson, John Rosamond

     - Lift Every Voice and Sing

Taylor, Billy

     - I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to be Free

Banfield: Extensions Of The Tradition

     Innova (American Composers Forum)   # 510

     Released: January 1997

Banfield, William

     - Four Persons (oboe, piano, clarinet, bassoon)

     - Spiritual Songs (voice, cello)

     - Wagussyduke (piano)

     - Prophetess II (voice, piano)

     - Cone Tone (violin, viola, cello)

Winds of Change - American Music for Wind Ensemble 

     New World Records   # 80211
     Released: July 1997
Smith, Hale
     - Expansions

The Hand That Holds the Bread - Songs Of Progress & Protest 

     New World Records   # 80267
     Released: June 1997
Work, Henry Clay
     - The Song of the Red Man

Historic Organs of Connecticut - 35 Historic Pipe Organs 

     Raven Recordings   # 94
     Released: December 1997
Work, Henry Clay
     - Come Home, Father

The Music of George Walker/ Gregory Walker, Bryn-Julson, etc 

     Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI)   # 719
     Released: April 1997

Walker, George
     - Sonata for Piano no 2

     - Sonata for Violin and Piano no 1
 
   
 
   
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