BLACK COMPOSER
CD RECORDINGS - 1999
Updated 2008

Supplements the document:  Comprehensive Reference Guide to Black Composer Recordings
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Composers recorded in 1999

  • Anderson, Thomas "TJ". Jr.

  • Baker, David Nathaniel

  • Brown, Charles

  • Burleigh, Henry Thacker

  • Childs, Billy

  • Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel

  • Davis, Anthony

  • Dett , R. Nathaniel

  • Europe, James Reese

  • Fernandez, Oscar Lorenzo

  • Handy,  W.C.

 

  • Jenkins, Leroy

  • Johnson,  James Weldon

  • León, Tania

  • Logan, Wendell

  • Meude-Monpas, Chevalier de

  • Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor

  • Saint-Georges, Chevalier

  • Still, William Grant

  • White, Dolores

  • White, Joseph

CD releases
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Black Violin Concertos of the 18th/19th Century / Barton, Hege, Encore Chamber Orchestra

     Cedille Records   #: 35

     Released: November 1999

Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
     - Romance for Violin and Orchestra in G major, Op. 39 "Prairie Lilies"

Meude-Monpas, Chevalier de
     - Concerto for Violin no 4 in D major

Saint-Georges, Chevalier
     - Concertos (2) for Violin, Op. 5: no 2 in A major

White, Joseph
     - Concerto for Violin in F sharp minor

Songs Of The Classical Age / Patrice Michaels Bedi, Schrader 

     Cedille Records   # 49
     Released: November 1999

Saint-Georges, Chevalier de
     - L'autre jour à l'ombrage  (piano, voice) 

 

Esquisses Hébraïques - Clarinet Quintets / Klöcker, Vlach
     CPO   # 999630

     Released: October 1999

Gardner, Samuel - Hebrew Fantasy for Clarinet and Strings

Latin American Dances - Nazareth, Vianna, et al / Iruzun
     Intim Musik   # 61

     Released: October 1999

Fernandez, Oscar Lorenzo
     - Jongo
More Still - Music of William Grant Still / Videmus, et. al.
     Cambria  # 1112
     Released: October 1999
Still, William Grant
     - Caribbean Suite (piano, voices, piano, ensembles)
     - Didn't Ma Lord Deliver Daniel (piano, voice, saxophone)
     - Hard Trials (piano, voice)
     - Gwinter Sing All along de Way (piano, voice)
     - Here's One (piano, voice, saxophone)
     - Breath of a Rose (piano, voice, saxophone)
     - Grief (piano, voice)
     - Bayou Home (piano, voice)
     - Breath of a Rose  (piano, voice, saxophone)
     - Three Visions: no 2, Summerland (piano)

A La Par - Baker, León, Logan, Perkinson

     Composers Recordings, Inc.   #823

     Released: September 1999

Baker, David Nathaniel
     - Through this vale of tears

León, Tania

     - A la Par
Logan, Wendell
     - Runagate, Runagate

Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor
     - Toccata for Piano

     - Sonata for Piano no 2 "Statements"
Listen To The Storyteller - Marsalis, Meyer, Doyle
     Sony # 60283
     Released: September 1999
Marsalis, Wynton
     - The Fiddler and the Dancing Witch (spoken voice, violin)

W.l. Smith: Light Upon Light / California Ear Unit, et al 

     Tzadik   # 7046

     Released: July 1999
Smith, Leo Smith
     - Moths, Flames and the Giant Sequoia Redwood Trees
     - Hetep
     - Nur
     - Multiamerica
     - A Thousand Cranes

Phoenix Chamber Choir - 10th Aniversary / Cortland Hultberg
     Skylark   # 9302

     Released: July 1999
Burleigh, Henry Thacker
     - My Lord, What a Mornin'
Still: Afro American Symphony; Beach / Kruger, Royal PO
     Bridge # 9086
     Released: July 1999
Still, William Grant
     - Symphony no 1 "Afro-American"  (orchestra)
Marsalis: At The Octoroon Balls, etc / Orion String Quartet
     Sony # 60979
     Released: June 1999
Marsalis, Wynton
     - Quartet for Strings no 1 "At the Octoroon Balls" - A Fiddler's Tale: Suite
Tribute To Sigurd Rascher - Contemporary Music for Saxophone
     Albany Records  # 331
     Released: June 1999
Still, William Grant
     - Romance for Alto Saxophone and Piano (saxophone, orchestra)

Deep River - H.T. Burleigh: Songs, Spirituals / Moses, et. al.

     Albany Records   # 332
     Released: June 1999
Burleigh, Henry Thacker
Songs

Merit - American Piano - Music Of Our Time / Ursula Oppens
      Music & Arts Programs of America   # 4862

     Released: May 1999

Davis, Anthony
     - Middle Passage

     - Parchment

Lincoln's Favorite Music / Douglas Jimerson
     Amerimusic   # 1002

     Released: June 1999

Burleigh, Henry Thacker
     - Go Down Moses

     - Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen

First Glimpses Of Sunlight / Dorian Wind Quintet
      Summit Records   # 233

     Released: March 1999
Childs, Billy
     - A Day in the Forest of Dreams

Fi-yer! A Century of African-American Song / Brown, Sears
      Albany Records   # 329

     Release Date: March 1999

Dett , R. Nathaniel
     - Songs (voice, piano)

Café Music - Schoenfield, Copland, et al / The Samaris Trio

     Newport Classic   #85642

     Released: March 1999
  Baker, David Nathaniel
     - Roots II

Psalms / Timothy Seelig, The Turtle Creek Chorale

     Reference Recordings   #86

     Released: February 1999

Brown, Charles
     - I will lift up mine eyes

Coleridge-Taylor: Chamber Music / The Coleridge Ensemble

     Afka   #: 543
     Released: February 1999

Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel

     - Fantasiestücke (5) for String Quartet, Op. 5

     - Negro Melodies (24), Op. 59 no 1: no 22, Sometimes I feel like a motherless child

     - Nonet in F minor, Op. 2

     - Negro Melodies (24), Op. 59 no 1: no 15, I was way down a-yonder

     - Negro Melodies (24), Op. 59 no 1: no 11, Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel

     - Negro Melodies (24), Op. 59 no 1: no 4, They will not lend me a child

     - Negro Melodies (24), Op. 59 no 1: no 18, My Lord delivered Daniel

Moonlight Bay- Songs As Is And Songs As Was / Bolcom, Morris
      Albany Records   # 318

     Released: February 1999

Johnson,  James Weldon
     - Nobody's Lookin' But de Owl an' De Moon

Europe, James Reese
     - Mirandy

Handy,  W.C.
     - Beale Street Blues

 New American Scene II / London, Cleveland Chamber Symphony 

     Albany Records   # 303
     Released: February 1999

Logan , Wendell

     - Roots, Branches, Shapes, and Shades (of Green) (piano, orchestra)
Jenkins, Leroy
     - Wonder Lust (violin, saxophone, orchestra)
White, Dolores

     - Crystal Gazing (orchestra)

Baker, David Nathaniel

     - Parallel Planes (saxophone, orchestra)

Anderson, Thomas J. Jr.

     - Chamber Concerto "Remembrances"
Merit - Louis Kaufman - Historic Recordings of American Works
     Music & Arts Programs Of America Catalog #: 4638
     Released: January 1999
Still, William Grant
     - Ennanga (strings, piano, harp, orchestra)
     - Danzas da Panama: no 1, Tamborito (string quartet)
     - Danzas da Panama: no 3, Punto (string quartet)

Music of the Haitian Masters Vol 1

Ifa Music Records   # 256

Released: 1999
 

Jeanty, Occide

     - Invocation

Verret, Solon

     - Meringue Haitienne, Nostalgie

     - Valse, Rose Printaniere

Elie, Justin

     - Chant De La Montagne#1, Isma-o!

     - Chant De La Montagne#2, Nostalgie

     - Legende Creole

Lamothe, Ludovic

     - Scherzo

     - Sobo

   - Meringue Haitienne, La Dangereuse
 
   
 
   
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