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Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
12+ albums
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Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (June 14, 1932, Winston-Salem, North Carolina—March 9, 2004, Chicago) was an innovative American composer whose interests spanned the worlds of jazz, dance, pop, film, television, and classical music. Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson was Afro-American. He was named for the Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912). Perkinson's mother was active in music and the arts as a piano teacher, church organist, and director of a theater company. Perkinson attended the High School of Music and Art in New York City and studied composition with Vittorio Giannini and Charles Mills at the Manhattan School of Music and Earl Kim at Princeton University. He was on the faculty of Brooklyn College (1959-1962) and studied conducting in the summers of 1960, 1962, and 1963 in The Netherlands with Franco Ferrara and Dean Dixon and also learned conducting in 1960 at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. In 1965 Perkinson cofounded the Symphony of the New World in New York. and later became its Music Director. He was also Music Director of Jerome Robbins's American Theater Lab and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Perkinson composed a ballet for Ailey entitled For Bird, With Love inspired by the music of jazz great Charlie Parker. Perkinson wrote a great deal of classical music, but was equally well-versed in jazz and popular music. He served briefly as pianist for drummer Max Roach’s quartet and wrote arrangements for Roach, Marvin Gaye, and Harry Belafonte. He al
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Blue/s Forms: I. Plain Blue/s
3082Blue/s Forms: II. Just Blue/s
2333Blue/s Forms: III. Jettin' Blue/s
2164Louisiana Blues Strut: A Cakewalk for Violin
1945Louisiana Blues Strut (A Cakewalk)
1936Sinfonietta No. 1: I. Sonata Allegro
1857Louisiana Blues Strut: A Catwalk
1818Movement for String Trio
1679Lamentations, "Black Folk Song Suite": I. Fuguing Tune: resolute
13410String Quartet No. 1 "Calvary": II. Adagio
109albums
Perkinson: A Celebration
The Education Of Sonny Carson
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Perkinson: Louisiana Blues Strut: A Catwalk
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Louisiana Blues Strut: A Cakewalk for Violin
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Hip Hop Is Read Presents: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II [The Samples]
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The Ownerz: Original Samples
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The Education of Sonny Carson OST
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YN's OB4CL 2 Breaks
African Heritage Symphonic Series, Vol. 3
The Education Of Sonny Carson (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Roots
Blues Dialogues: Music by Black Composers