BLACK COMPOSER
CD RECORDINGS - 2004
Updated 2008

Supplements the document:  Comprehensive Reference Guide to Black Composer Recordings
RELEASE YEAR
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2008		 2007 2006 2005 ▼
2004		 2003 2002 2001 2000

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Composers recorded in 2004

  • Abels, Michael

  • Adams, H. Leslie

  • Baker, David

  • Banfield, William

  • Bonds, Margaret

  • Burleigh, Henry Thacker

  • Childs, Billy

  • Cohen, Cecil

  • Coleman, Ornette

  • Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel

  • Cunningham, Arthur

  • Dett, R. Nathaniel

  • Euba, Akin

  • Hailstork, Adolphus

  • Jenkins, Edmund Thornton

  • Jennings, Joseph

  • Johnson, James P.

  • Lewis, George

  • Mumford, Jeffrey

  • Nunes-Garcia, José Mauricio

  • Owens, Robert

  • Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor

  • Price, Florence

  • Saint-Georges, Joseph Boulogne Chevalier de

  • Singleton, Alvin

  • Smith,  Wadada Leo

  • Still, William Grant

  • Taylor, Cecil

  • Wallen, Errollyn
CD releases
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Telling Tales:  Music from the Cleveland Composers Guild
     Capstone #8736  (2 CDs)
     Released: December 2004
Mumford, Jeffrey
      - Barbaglio dal manca
Along the Western Shore
     Cambria #1141
     Released: December 2004
Still, William Grant
      - Seven Traceries (piano)

A Fool's Gold - Mozart, Haydn, etc / Songfellows

     Musicians Showcase  #:MS 1102

     Release Date: November 2004

Cunningham, Arthur

     - Honey Brown

New Waltzes for Piano / Eric Moe

     Albany Records  #:689

     Release Date: November 2004

Euba, Akin

     - Study in African Jazz 3
Jeffrey Mumford: The Promise of the Far Horizon
     Albany Records #Troy 698
     Released: November 2004

Mumford, Jeffrey
      - Wending (viola)
      - The promise of the far horizon (quartet)

      - A landscape of interior resonances (piano)
      - A window of resonant light
      - The milliner's fancy (alto saxophone)
Sonya Gabrielle Baker: She Says
     Self produced
     Released: October 2004

Bonds, Margaret - Three Dream Portraits

Price, Florence - Song to the Dark Virgin
Saint-George: Concertos and Symphonies
     Assai #222662
     Released: October 2004

Saint-Georges, Joseph Boulogne Chevalier de
      - Concerto for violin and orchestra opus II no.2 in D Major

      - Symphony op.XI no.1 in G Major

      - Sonata n.2 for piano and violín

      - Symphony op.XI no.2

      - Concerto for violin and guitar op.VIII no.9 in G Major
Saint-George: Quartets
     Assai #222622
     Released: October 2004

Saint-Georges, Joseph Boulogne Chevalier de
      - Quartet I in D Major

      - Quartet II in C flat Major

      - Quartet III in F minor

      - Quartet IV in G Major

      - Quartet V in E flat Major

      - Quartet VI in G minor
Curran: Maritime Rites
     New World Records  #80625
     Released: October 2004

Lewis, George  (piano)

     - Improvisation
With a Song in My Heart - Gerald Blanchard
    Orchard  #805077
    Released: September 2004

Cohen, Cecil

     - Death of an Old Seaman
Owens, Robert

     - Genius Child (from the Song Cycle “Mortal Storm”)

Adams, H. Leslie
     - Prayer (from the Song Cycle “Night Songs”)

Burleigh, Henry Thacker

     - Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Chamber Music
     Centaur Records CRC #2691
     Released: September 2004
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
      - Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in F Sharp minor, Op 10
      - African Dances (4) for Violin and Piano, Op. 58
      - Nonet in F minor, Op. 2
The Piano Music of Arthur Cunningham
     Equilibrium #EQ 65
     Released: September 2004

Cunningham, Arthur
      - Harlem Suite

      - Engrams

      - Phoenix

      - Blue Bridge

      - Sille

      - Blue Bending

      - Evening Thistle

      - Quarter Moon

      - Shadows Under A Willow

      - Moon Shadows
Saint-Georges Violin Concertos
     Naxos #557322
     Released: September 2004
Saint-Georges, Joseph Boulogne Chevalier de
      - Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 3, No. 1
      - Violin Concerto in D major, Op. post., No. 2
      - Violin Concerto No. 10 in G major
American Classics - Joplin: Piano Rags / Peskanov
     Naxos #8559114
     Released: August 2004

Joplin, Scott

 

Compilation of Joplin piano Rags
Southern Quilt
     Musicians Showcase #1092
     Released: August 2004

Still, William Grant - Three Visions: no 2, Summerland (piano)

 

Other composers include: Gottschalk, Mills, McCallum
Calico Winds - Vintage America: A Musical Meritage
     Albany Records #Troy 693
     Released: August 2004

Still, William Grant 

      - Folk Suite no. 4 (arranged)
      - Miniatures

Other composers include: MacDowell, Sousa
Rarely Performed Piano Works: Seta Karakashian, piano
     Romeo Records #7227
     Released: July 2004

Still, William Grant - Kaintuck

Other composers include: Liszt

The Contemporary Harpsichord / Kroll (harpsichord)

     Albany Records  #668
     Released: June 2004

Singleton, Alvin

     - Le tombeau du petit prince
Tim Brooks, Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890 - 1919 ( University of Illinois Press )  ISBN: 0-252-02850-3    An important and topical publication
     Published: May 2004
The first in-depth history of the involvement of African Americans in the early recording industry, this book examines the first three decades of sound recording in the United States, charting the vigorous and varied roles black artists played in the period leading up to the Jazz Age. It all begins in Part One: "George W. Johnson, the First Black Recording Artist."

The author identifies key black artists who recorded commercially in a wide range of genres and provides illuminating biographies of some forty of these audio pioneers. Brooks assesses the careers and impacts, as well as analyzing the recordings, of figures including George W. Johnson, Bert Williams, George Walker, Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, W. C. Handy, James Reese Europe, Wilbur Sweatman, Harry T. Burleigh, Roland Hayes, Booker T. Washington, and boxing champion Jack Johnson, as well as a host of lesser-known voices.  Lost Sounds also includes a selected discography of CD reissues.

Christ's Passion & Resurrection - Classical Masterpieces

     Jade  # 36081

     Release Date: May 2004

Nunes Garcia, Jose Mauricio

     - Missa de Nossa Senhora do Carmo: Crucifixus
Odyssey / Alexander-sergei Ramírez
     Deutsche Grammophon   #: 474208
     Released: April 2004

Bebey, Francis - The Magic Box
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Violin Concerto
     Avie #AV0044
     Released: March 2004

Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel - Violin Concerto in g minor Opus 80

Other composers include: Dvořák
Cecil Taylor - Algonquin
     Bridge #9146
     Released: March 2004
Taylor, Cecil - Algonquin, for violin and piano
Composer Portrait - Wadada Leo Smith with Southwest Chamber Music
     Cambria #8809
     Released: March 2004
Smith,  Wadada Leo
        - Grand Oak Trees at Dawn
        - String Quartet no. 1
        - String Quartet no. 3 (Black Church)
        - Bardsdale
Violin Fantasies
     Cedille  #CDR 073
     Released: February 2004
Coleman, Ornette - Trinity: Fantasy for solo violin
Dance Like the Wind: Music of Today's Black Composers
     Clarion #CLR906
     Released: February 2004

Banfield, William - Dance Like the Wind (excerpts - wind quintet)
Childs, Billy - Piece for String Orchestra
Baker, David - Images, Shadows and Dreams: Five Vignettes (chorus and instrument ensemble)
Hailstork, Adolphus - Nocturne
Jennings, Joseph - An Old Black Woman, Homeless and Indistinct (chorus and orchestra)
Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor - Lamentations: Black Folk Song Suite (cello)

Part of a 4 CD series devoted to Black composers.  In addition to the instrumental works above, this CD features vocal and choral works performed by VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and Chorus.  Clarion Records
Got the Saint Louis Blues: Classical Music in the Jazz Age
     Clarion #CLR907
     Released: February 2004

Dett, R. Nathaniel - The Chariot Jubilee (chorus and orchestra)
Jenkins, Edmund Thornton - Charlestonia: Folk Rhapsody for Orchestra no. 1 (orchestra) 
Johnson, James P. - Yamekraw: A Negro Rhapsody (piano and orchestra)

Part of a 4 CD series devoted to Black composers.  In addition to the instrumental works above, this CD features vocal and choral works performed by VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and Chorus.  Clarion Records
Skyward My People Rose: Music of William Grant Still
     Clarion #CLR905
     Released: February 2004

Still, William Grant
     - Wailing Woman (chorus and orchestra)
     - Swanee River
     - And They Lynched Him on a Tree (chorus and orchestra)
     - Miss Sally's Party (string orchestra)
     - Reverie (organ)
     - Elegy (organ)

Part of a 4 CD series devoted to Black composers.  In addition to the instrumental works above, this CD features vocal and choral works performed by VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and Chorus.  Clarion Records
What a Mighty God: Spirituals and Gospels for Chorus
     Clarion #CLR904
     Released: February 2004

Abels, Michael - What a Mighty God (chorus and orchestra)

Part of a 4 CD series devoted to Black composers.  In addition to the instrumental works above, this CD features vocal and choral works performed by VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and Chorus.  Clarion Records
Twelve Etudes / Maria Corley
     Albany Records #Troy 639
     Released: February 2004
Adams, Leslie
      -Etudes (12) for Piano
Elena Riu - Salsa Nueva
     Somm #237
     Released: January 2004
Wallen, Errollyn - I Wouldn't Normally Say
Hailstork: As Falling Leaves 
     Albany Records #Troy 612
     Released: January 2004
Hailstork, Adolphus
      - Sanctum
      - Romances (2) for Viola and Orchestra / Chamber Ensemble
      - As Falling Leaves
      - Quartet for Strings no. 1
      - Arabesques for Flute and Percussion
 
   
 
   
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