CBMR and Albany Records Partner on New Recording of the New BMRE

Beginning of article

During August, the Center's New Black Music Repertory Ensemble rehearsed and recorded two works that will be released by Albany Records in late 2009. The compact disc will be the first in a new series, Recorded Music of the African Diaspora, which will be co-produced by the CBMR and Albany Records.

The works featured on the recording are Mary Watkins' Five Movements in Color and Oily Wilson's Of Visions and Truth: A Song Cycle. Five Movements in Color (1993) swings, grooves, and hearkens to the roots of African-American musical expression. Elements of jazz, traditional African music, and popular forms are merged with contemporary techniques and colorful orchestrations in an …