The Piano Music of Ed Bland Judith Olson, piano Throughout his career, Mr. Bland enjoyed the challenge of writing for various combinations of instruments (even if seldom used) and his compositions always included a broad range of textures, with a diversity of rhythms which is most evident in the nine works for piano presented on this recording. From Classical Soul, Cell fone Blues, and Phunky Phrogs Rag to Three Chaconnes in Blue, Ed Bland's key objective was to simultaneously maintain the "aesthetic Now," or "extended Now" of jazz improvisation, and unpredictability of the work within a coherent structure.

CD-1256

pays tribute to James Reese Europe's Harlem Hell Fighters' Band

On the 100th Anniversary of the Pathé Recordings
Music Director – Richard Birkemeier; vocals Selwyn Gibson, Gerald Wheeler

Original recordings including W.C. Handy’s “St. Louis Blues” and “The Hesitating Blues” --- both arranged by William Grant Still; Handy’s “The Memphis Blues”; Walter Donaldson’s “How ‘ya Gonna Keep’em Down on the Farm”; Europe’s “On Patrol in No-Man’s Land”; and seven additional hits from that era.

CD-1263

George Klass, clarinet; Jocelyn Langworthy, clarinet; Shannon Ford, clarinet (bass clarinet); Kevin Schempf, bass clarinet, alto clarinet, B-flat clarinet.

Jerome Moross: Sonatina for Clarinet Choir
William Grant Still: Lyric Quartette
William Grant Still: Christmas in the Western World (Las Pascuas)
Sean Osborn: Quartet for Four B-flat Clarinets
Christopher Dietz: De Profundis

CD-1190

MUSIC BY ZENOBIA POWELL PERRY
Janis-Rozena Peri, soprano; Darryl Taylor, tenor; Joyce Catafalno, flute; Berkeley Price, clarinet; John Crotty, Deon Nielsen Price, piano

Cycle of Songs on Poems by Paul Lawrence Dunbar; Sinner Man So Hard, Believe! (1967); Hallelujah to the Lamb (1969); Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1963); Sonatine for Piano (1963); O de Angels Done Bowed Down (for mezzo-soprano and piano); Homage to William Levi Dawson on His 90th Birthday (for solo piano); Threnody Song Cycle (for soprano and piano); Selections from Heritage and Life: A Cycle of Songs (soprano and piano); The Hidden Words of Baha’u’llah (soprano, flute, piano) (1977); Promenade for Piano, Flight for Piano

CD -1138

Lenox Avenue - CBS Symphony Orchestra (1938) cond. by Howard Barlow - Juano Hernandez, narrator. Suite for Violin and Orch. Louis Kaufman, violin - Standard Symphony cond. by Henry Svedrofsky (1947); Pastorela; Summerland; Here's One for Violin and Piano; Louis Kaufman, violin; Annette Kaufman, piano; Songs of Separation, Claudine Carlson, mezzo-soprano.

AMERICAN MUSIC FOR WOODWINDS BY WILLIAM GRANT STILL WITH THE SIERRA WINDS Includes Minatures, Folk Suites No. 2, 3, 4; Incantation & Dance; Quit dat Fool'nish; Summerland; Romance; Vignetttes; and Get On Board for woodwinds, string
quartet and piano.

FLORENCE PRICE: Sonata; Dances in the Canebrakes. W. G. STILL: Three Visions. MARGARET BONDS: Troubled Water. ED BLAND: Sketches Set VII. Althea Waites, piano.

(North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Carlton Woods, conductor); FESTIVE OVERTURE (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London, Arthur Lipkin, conductor); ROMANCE FOR SAXOPHONE AND PIANO (Robert Umiker, Sax., Arthur Tollefson, piano); FOLK SUITE NO. 4 FOR FLUTE; THREE RHYTHMIC SPIRITUALS and I FEEL LIKE MY TIME AIN'T LONG (Schola Cantorum of the Univ. of Arkansas, Jack Groh, cond.)

Piece For Chamber Orchestra (Speculum Musicae). Sketches Set One (Light Fantastic Players). Brass Quintet (American Brass Quintet); For Flute; For Violin; For Clarinet; Sketches Set Seven (piano)

Caribbean Suite (premiere); Spirituals/Songs including Didn't Ma Lord Deliver Daniel, Hard Trials, Gwinter Sing All Along De Way, Here's One, Breath of a Rose, Grief, and Bayou Home. Performers include Robert Honeysucker, baritone; Louise Toppin, sop.; Ruth Hamilton, contralto; Stan Strickland, sax; pianist/arranger Vivan Taylor and the ECU Steel Orchestra.

Works by George Gershwin, Mozart, Wagner, W. C. Handy, von Flotow, misc. spirituals.

A collection of rare radio broadcasts and electrical transcriptions tracing the Diva's wonderful but short career in the 1930s and early 1940s.

Still: From the Delta; Folk Suite; Little Red Schoolhouse; Summerland; selections from the American Scene; PRICE: Three Negro Dances (Northern Arizona University Wind Symphony, Dr. Patricia J. Hoy, conductor)