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Corporate Author Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, performer.

Title Black Manhattan : theater and dance music of James Reese Europe, Will Marion Cook, and members of the legendary Clef Club.

Publication Info. New York, NY : New World Records, [2003]
℗2003

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Description 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time 010741
Physical Medium 4 3/4 in.
Description digital
optical
1.4 m/s
digital recording
Note Principally popular instrumental music by African American composers from early 20th-century Manhattan; the 6th and 17th with vocals.
"Recorded Anthology of American Music, Inc."
Performer Edward Pleasant, baritone (6th work); Awet Andemicael, soprano (17th work); Paragon Ragtime Orchestra; Rick Benjamin, conductor.
Event Recorded May 28-29, 2003, Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City.
Note Compact disc.
Program notes by Rick Benjamin, biographical notes on the composers and performers, and selected bibliography and discography (39 p. : ports.) in container.
Contents The Castle perfect trot / James Reese Europe & Ford T. Dabney (2:15) -- Carolina fox trot / Will H. Vodery (2:42) -- Overture to In Dahomey / Will Marion Cook (8:14) -- Deep river : old Negro melody / traditional arr. Harry T. Burleigh (2:21) -- Sambo : a characteristic two step march / William H. Tyers (3:10) -- When the band plays ragtime / Bob Cole & the Johnson Brothers (3:12) -- Castle House rag / James Reese Europe (2:07) -- Smyrna : a Turkish serenade / William H. Tyers (4:39) -- Ballin' the jack ; &, What it takes to make me love you, you've got it : medley fox trot / Chris Smith & James Reese Europe (1:42) -- Meno d'amour : intermezzo / William H. Tyers (4:46) -- Hey there! (Hi there!) / James Reese Europe (2:38) -- The tar heel blues rag / J. Tim Brymn (2:31) -- Congratulations : the Castles' lame duck waltz / James Reese Europe (4:55) -- Strut Miss Lizzie : fox trot / J. Turner Layton ; arr. Will H. Vodery (2:00) -- Panama : a characteristic novelty / William H. Tyers (4:47) -- The Clef Club march / James Reese Europe (2:47) -- Under the bamboo tree / Bob Cole & the Johnson brothers (5:05) -- Cocoanut [i.e. Coconut] grove jazz / J. Tim Brymn (3:04) -- Swing along! / Will Marion Cook (4:05).
Subject Popular instrumental music -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1901-1910.
Popular instrumental music.
New York (State) -- New York.
Chronological Term 1901-1910
Genre/Form Popular instrumental music.
Subject Popular instrumental music -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1911-1920.
Chronological Term 1911-1920
Subject Popular music -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1901-1910.
Popular music.
Popular music -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1911-1920.
African Americans -- Music.
African Americans -- Music.
Musicals -- Excerpts.
Musicals -- Excerpts.
Musicals.
Dance orchestra music.
Dance orchestra music.
Genre/Form Dance orchestra music.
Foxtrots (Music)
Foxtrots (Music)
Ragtime music.
Ragtime music.
Subject Musicals.
Genre/Form Sound recordings.
Sound recordings.
Music.
Music.
Excerpts.
Excerpts.
Added Author Europe, James Reese, 1881-1919.
Cook, Will Marion.
Burleigh, H. T. (Harry Thacker), 1866-1949, arranger.
Pleasant, Edward, performer.
Andemicael, Awet, performer.
Benjamin, Rick, conductor.
Recorded Anthology of American Music, Inc.
Clef Club (New York, N.Y.)
Music No. 80611-2 New World Records