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Rick Benjamin (conductor) says of this recording:\r
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'This is the third volume of Paragon Ragtime Orchestra recordings documenting the music of important African-American composers from late 19th- and early 20th-century New York City. \r
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The inspiration for this effort came about twenty-five years ago, when I read James Weldon Johnson's Black Manhattan (1930), a fascinating chronicle of the city's black artistic life from the Victorian era to the Harlem Renaissance. I came to Johnson's volume after finishing Eileen Southern's The Music of Black Americans (1971), a wider-ranging academic work, but a no less revealing one. After reading these books I was excited to listen to the music they had described. But this was problematic: I discovered remarkably few available recordings of historic African-American music, and even fewer to represent New York's pioneering black composers. This inability to actually experience a considerable span of our musical heritage was a void that needed to be filled. Clearly it was time for a carefully curated new recording of first-rate performances played from authentic scores.\r
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Fifteen years and three Black Manhattan volumes later, [the first was issued in 2003], we have recorded three and a half hours of this previously neglected music: sixty pieces by thirty-two outstanding African-American composers, spanning the seminal years of the 1870s to the early 1920s. It is our hope that these efforts have started to close this gap in America's cultural memory. Our even greater hope is that these recordings will enable the world to rediscover this magnificent music and the gifted, spirited, and persevering people who gave it to us.' - Rick Benjamin, conductor, Paragon Ragtime Orchestra.

Pork & Beans Rag

I\u2019m Just Wild About Harry

The Dancing Deacon: Clef Club Fox-Trot

Jewel Of The Big Blue Nile

We\u2019ll Raise The Roof To-Night

\u201cChant\u201d From The Bandana Sketches

Dear Old Southland

Wall Street \u2018Rag'

Oh Dem Golden Slippers

In The Baggage Coach Ahead

Love Will Find A Way

Overture To My Friend From Kentucky

Royal Garden Blues

The Tremolo Trot

Just One Word Of Consolation

After You\u2019ve Gone

Delicioso: Tango Aristocratico

The Zoo-Step

The Slow Drag Blues

Ianthia March

I\u2019m Goin\u2019 Home

Lift Every Voice And Sing

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Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.Rick Benjamin (conductor) says of this recording:rr'This is the third volume of Paragon Ragtime Orchestra recordings documenting the music of important African-American composers from late 19th- and early 20th-century New York City. rrThe inspiration for this effort came about twenty-five years ago, when I read James Weldon Johnson's Black Manhattan (1930), a fascinating chronicle of the city's black artistic life from the Victorian era to the Harlem Renaissance. I came to Johnson's volume after finishing Eileen Southern's The Music of Black Americans (1971), a wider-ranging academic work, but a no less revealing one. After reading these books I was excited to listen to the music they had described. But this was problematic: I discovered remarkably few available recordings of historic African-American music, and even fewer to represent New York's pioneering black composers. This inability to actually experience a considerable span of our musical heritage was a void that needed to be filled. Clearly it was time for a carefully curated new recording of first-rate performances played from authentic scores.rrFifteen years and three Black Manhattan volumes later, [the first was issued in 2003], we have recorded three and a half hours of this previously neglected music: sixty pieces by thirty-two outstanding African-American composers, spanning the seminal years of the 1870s to the early 1920s. It is our hope that these efforts have started to close this gap in America's cultural memory. Our even greater hope is that these recordings will enable the world to rediscover this magnificent music and the gifted, spirited, and persevering people who gave it to us.' - Rick Benjamin, conductor, Paragon Ragtime Orchestra.

Pork & Beans Rag

Iu2019m Just Wild About Harry

The Dancing Deacon: Clef Club Fox-Trot

Jewel Of The Big Blue Nile

Weu2019ll Raise The Roof To-Night

u201cChantu201d From The Bandana Sketches

Dear Old Southland

Wall Street u2018Rag'

Oh Dem Golden Slippers

In The Baggage Coach Ahead

Love Will Find A Way

Overture To My Friend From Kentucky

Royal Garden Blues

The Tremolo Trot

Just One Word Of Consolation

After Youu2019ve Gone

Delicioso: Tango Aristocratico

The Zoo-Step

The Slow Drag Blues

Ianthia March

Iu2019m Goinu2019 Home

Lift Every Voice And Sing

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