{"product_id":"729272","title":"Paragon Ragtime Orch The - Black Manhattan Volume 3 [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRick Benjamin (conductor) says of this recording:\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e'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\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eThe 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\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eFifteen 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.\u003cp\u003ePork \u0026amp; Beans Rag\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI\\u2019m Just Wild About Harry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Dancing Deacon: Clef Club Fox-Trot\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJewel Of The Big Blue Nile\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe\\u2019ll Raise The Roof To-Night\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\\u201cChant\\u201d From The Bandana Sketches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDear Old Southland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWall Street \\u2018Rag'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOh Dem Golden Slippers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Baggage Coach Ahead\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLove Will Find A Way\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOverture To My Friend From Kentucky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoyal Garden Blues\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Tremolo Trot\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust One Word Of Consolation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter You\\u2019ve Gone\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelicioso: Tango Aristocratico\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Zoo-Step\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Slow Drag Blues\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIanthia March\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI\\u2019m Goin\\u2019 Home\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLift Every Voice And Sing\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55154587042177,"sku":"729272","price":16.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/51yhA_lFQHL._SL1500.jpg?v=1767905512","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/729272","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}