BLACK COMPOSER
CD RECORDINGS - 2005
Updated 2008

Supplements the document:  Comprehensive Reference Guide to Black Composer Recordings
RELEASE YEAR
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Composers recorded in 2005

  • Baker, David

  • Boozer, Mark

  • Burleigh, Henry Thacker

  • Cheatham, Wallace

  • Childs, Billy

  • Coleman, Valerie

  • Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel

  • Dede, Edmond

  • Dett, R. Nathaniel

  • Dumpson, Donald

  • Eastman, Julius

  • Euba, Akin

  • Gardner, Samuel

  • Hailstork, Adolphus

  • Holdridge, Lee

  • Jennings, Joseph

  • Johnson, James P.

  • Joplin, Scott

  • Konye, Paul

  • Kwami, Robert

  • McDaniel, William Foster

  • Meude-Monpas, Chevalier J.J.O. de

  • Nash, Gary

  • Nketia, J. H. Kwabena

  • Okoye, Nkeiru

  • Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor

  • Saint-George, Chevalier

  • Scott, Jeff

  • Singleton, Alvin

  • Şowándé, Olufęlá "Fęlá"

  • Still, William Grant

  • Uzoigwe, Joshua

  • Walker, George

  • Wallen, Errollyn - Three Ships

  • Wheatley, Andres

  • Wesley, John Wesley, Jr.

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CD releases
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American Eclectic- An American Journey Vol 2 / Erickson

     DTR/Direct-to-Tape  #2015

     Release Date: December 2005

Johnson, James P.

     - Carolina shout
Danzal / Tom Kerstens
     British Guitar Society BGS #114
     Release date: November 2005
Wallen, Errollyn - Walking Me to Work
Black Venus - New Music For Guitar Vol 1 / Tom Kerstens
     British Guitar Society BGS #106
     Release date: November 2005
Wallen, Errollyn - Three Ships
Unjust Malaise
     New World Records #80636
     Release date: November 2005

Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor

     - Sinfonietta No. 1 for Strings

     - Grass: Poem for Piano, Strings & Percussion

     - Quartet No. 1 based on “Calvary”

     - Blue/s Forms for Solo Violin

     - Lamentations: Black/Folk Song Suite for Solo Cello

     - Louisiana Blues Strut (A Cakewalk)

     - Movement for String Trio
Unjust Malaise
     New World Records #80636
     Release date: November 2005
Eastman, Julius
Serenely Cedille
     Cedille #8001
     Release date: November 2005

Walker, George

    - Lyric for Strings

Still, William Grant

     - Adagio from Symphony No. 1, “Afro-American”

Meude-Monpas, Chevalier J.J.O. de

    - Adagio from Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major

Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor

     - Alla sarabande from Generations: Sinfonietta No. 2 for Strings

Şowándé, Olufęlá "Fęlá"

     - Nostalgia from African Suite
Lost Sounds - Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1891 - 1922
     Archeophone #1005 (2 CDs)
     Release date: October 2005
Commercial recordings and the contributions of black artists on American records, this is a companion to the similarly titled book published in 2004.

This recording includes many genres of music. Selected composers identified on these historic recordings include: Harry Burleigh, Edward Boatner,  Nathaniel Dett, and Clarence Cameron White.

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Gershwin - New York Connections / Hayes

     Quartz  #Qtz2005

     Release Date: October 2005

Joplin, Scott

     - The Entertainer

     - Maple Leaf Rag

     - Magnetic Rag

     - Solace

Gomalan Brass Quintet - Swingin' Pool

     Summit Records  #432

     Release Date: October 2005

Jones, Quincy

     - Soul Bossa Nova
Lyric: Jazz-Chamber Music - Vol. 1
     Lunacy Music #1001
     Release date: October 2005
Childs, Billy
     - In Carson's Eyes          - Goodbye, Friend
     - Into The Light              - Prelude In Bb Major
     - Scarborough Faire       - The Old Man Tells His Story
     - Quiescence                  - Hope, In The Face Of Despair
     - American Landscape

Pianist Billy Childs fuses elements of jazz and classical music into a convincing, seamless whole.  Includes expanded instrumentation as well as a chamber jazz sensibility in song form, orchestration, and improvisation.

Sound in Spirit / Chanticleer

     Warner Classics  # 61941

     Release Date: September 2005

Jennings, Joseph

     - Sound in Spirit

     - Night Spirit Song
American Classics - Still: Piano Music / Boozer
     Naxos #8559210
     Release date: September 2005

Still, William Grant

     - Three Visions

     - Seven Traceries

     - Blues

     - A Deserted Plantation

     - Africa
Donna Coleman: Havana to Harlem
     Phantom  #:4767743
     Release Date: August 2005
Joplin, Scott

     - Solace

     - The Entertainer

Johnson, James P.

     - Carolina Shout

     - Lonesome Reverie
Holdridge: The Giant Of Thunder Mountain / Lee Holdridge
     Citadel Records  #:77102
     Release Date: August 2005
Holdridge, Lee
     - The Giant of Thunder Mountain (based on film score)
Brass Masterworks - Turn of the Century Cornet Favorites
     Sony Classical #94886
     Release date: August 2005
Dede, Edmond
     - Mephisto masque

Joplin, Scott

     - Pleasant Moments
Joplin: Treemonisha / Schuller, Balthrop, Allen, et. al.
     Deutsche Grammophon  # 000458902
     Release date: July 2005
Joplin, Scott
     - Treemonisha
Communing With Music / Cantello
     Summit Records #6901
     Release date: July 2005
Childs, Billy
     - A Day in the Forest of Dreams
     - First Glimpses of Sunlight
Coleridge-Taylor
     EMI #5870242
     Release date: July 2005
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
     - Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast
     - Petite Suite de Concert
Chevalier de Saint-George: String Quartets Op. 14 / Apollon
     Avenira #276011
     Release date: June 2005

Saint-George, Chevalier

     - Quartet No. 1 in D major; op. 14

     - Quartet No. 2 in B flat major; op. 14

     - Quartet No. 3 in F minor; op. 14

     - Quartet No. 4 in G major; op. 14

     - Quartet No. 5 in E flat major; op. 14

     - Quartet No. 6 in G minor,  op. 14
Serious Fun ! - Berners, Nicholas, Baker/ Applebaum, Hamelin
     Albany #744
     Release date: June 2005

Baker, David

     - Someone is Sending Me Flowers
Alvin Singleton
     First Edition #0043
     Release date: June 2005
Singleton, Alvin
     - After Fallen Crumbs
     - Shadows
     - A Yellow Rose Petal
Communing With Music
     Summit Records #6901
     Release date: June 2005
Childs, Billy
     - A Day in the Forest of Dreams
     - First Glimpses of Sunlight


Other composers include: Debussy and Grieg
British Light Music - Coleridge-Taylor / Leaper, Dublin owards
     Marco Polo #8223516
     Release date: May 2005  (a reissue)
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
     - The Song of Hiawatha, Op. 30: Overture
     - Petite Suite de Concert, Op. 77
     - Characteristic Waltzes (4), Op. 22
     - Gipsy Suite, Op. 20
     - Romance for Violin and Orchestra in G major, Op. 39 "Prairie Lilies"
     - Othello, Op. 79: Suite

Suite Enfantine / Israelievitch, Sebastian

     Label: Fleur de Son  #:FDS57936

     Release Date: May 2005

Gardner, Samuel

     - From the canebrake, Op. 5 no 1
A Recital - Donizetti, Debussy, Handel / Marian Anderson
     Symposium  #1270
     Release date: May 2005
Burleigh, Henry Thacker
     - Jubilee Songs of the USA: Deep River
Towards An African Pianism:  Keyboard Music of Africa and the Diaspora
     MRI Press - Vol 2 - 2CDs
     Release date: March 2005

Boozer, Mark
Cheatham, Wallace
Euba, Akin
Konye, Paul
Kwami, Robert
Nash, Gary
Nketia, J. H. Kwabena
Okoye, Nkeiru
Uzoigwe, Joshua
Wheatley, Andres
American Journey / Erickson
     DTR/Direct to tape #9807
     Release date: March 2005

Work, John Wesley, Jr.
     - Scuppernong

Dett, R. Nathaniel

     - In the Bottoms

Dumpson, Donald

     - Variations on The Lord's Prayer
STILL: In Memoriam / Africa / Symphony No. 1, 'Afro-American'
     Naxos #89559174
     Release date: March 2005

Still, William Grant
     - In Memoriam: The Colored Soldiers Who Died for Democracy

     - Africa

     - Symphony No. 1, "Afro-American"
The Romantic Violin Concerto
     Hyperion #KIC 67420
     Release date: March 2005

Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
     - Violin Concerto in G minor Op 80

 

Other composer includes: Somervell
Lil' Lite O' Mine
     Leonarda #LE355
     Release date: February 2005

Hailstork, Adolphus - The Pied Piper of Harlem (solo flute)

Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor - arr

McDaniel, William Foster - arr
William Grant Still - Highway One (opera)
     Albany Records #Troy 734
     Release date: February 2005
Still, William Grant
     - Highway One
George Walker - Composer/Pianist
     Albany Records #Troy 697
     Release date: February 2005

Walker, George 
     - Modus for Chamber Ensemble (flute, oboe, guitar, guitar, violin, cello)

     - Prayer (organ)

     - Improvisation on St. Theodulph (organ)

     - Spires (organ)

     - In Time of Silver Rain (voice and piano)

     - I Never Saw A Moor (voice and piano)

     - Mother Goose (voice and piano)

     - Response (voice and piano)

     - Softly, Blow Lightly (voice and piano)

     - Wild Nights (voice and piano)

     - Mary Wore Three Links of Chain (voice and piano)

 

Other composers include: Liszt and Chopin
The Classical Underground: Imani Winds (wind quintet)
     Koch Records #KIC 7599
     Release date: January 2005

Coleman, Valerie 
     - Concerto for Wind Quintet
     - Steal Away (traditional spiritual arr.)

Scott, Jeff 
     - Homage to Duke
     - Libertango (arr. of work by Astor Piazzolla)
D'Rivera, Paquito
     - Aires Tropicales

Other composers include: Shifrin
Ballade (violin, piano)
     EDI Records #9259
     Release date: January 2005
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel - Ballade in C Minor, op. 73
British Women Composers Vol 1
     Lorelt #101
     Release date: January 2005
Wallen, Errollyn - It all depends on you
Perpetual Motion (violin, piano)
     Supraphon #SU 3772
     Release date: January 2005

Baker, David - Ethnic Variations on a Theme of Paganini

Other composer includes: Paganini
 
   
 
   
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