String Quartets nos. 1–12

Tracklist

Best experienced from track one — press play and let it unfold.

Disc 1

• 1 String Quartet No. 1: Ulysses Simpson Kay 7:14
• 2 String Quartet No. 1: Thomas Jefferson Anderson, Jr. 4:15
• 3 String Quartet No. 1: Hale Smith 7:46
• 4 String Quartet No. 1: George Theophilius Walker 11:51
• 5 String Quartet No. 2 16:52

Disc 2

• 1 String Quartet No. 3 “Black Church: A First World Gathering of the Spirit”: Movement 1 11:13
• 2 String Quartet No. 3 “Black Church: A First World Gathering of the Spirit”: Movement 2 10:05
• 3 String Quartet No. 4: Movement 1 6:46
• 4 String Quartet No. 4: Movement 2 6:41
• 5 String Quartet No. 4: Movement 3 11:48
• 6 String Quartet No. 4: Movement 4 2:39
• 7 String Quartet No. 4: Movement 5 11:09

Disc 3

• 1 String Quartet No. 5 “In the Diaspora – Earthquakes and Sunrise Missions” 17:22
• 2 String Quartet No. 6 “Taif: Prayer n the Garden of the Hijaz” 23:00
• 3 String Quartet No. 7 “Ten Thousand Ceveus Peruvianus Amemevical (In rememberance of Dorothy Ann Stone)” 14:38

Disc 4

• 1 String Quartet No. 8 “Opunta Humifusa” 21:12
• 2 String Quartet No. 9: Ma Rainey 6:25
• 3 String Quartet No. 9: Marian Anderson 10:15
• 4 String Quartet No. 10 “Angela Davis: Into the Morning Sunlight” 13:46

Disc 5

• 1 String Quartet No. 11: Shaikh Cerno Boka 13:41
• 2 String Quartet No. 11: Louis Armstrong 8:55
• 3 String Quartet No. 11: Sarah Bell Brown‐Smith 10:00
• 4 String Quartet No. 11: Kashala Kiom Smith 12:30
• 5 String Quartet No. 11: At the Heart’s Core, Knowledge (For UCLA Music Library) 9:55

Disc 6

• 1 String Quartet No. 11: Sarhanna Kabell Smith 12:31
• 2 String Quartet No. 11: Bessie Smith 11:08
• 3 String Quartet No. 11: Alvin Singleton 7:56
• 4 String Quartet No. 11: Red Autumn’s Gold (For Lucius G. Smith) 12:25

Disc 7

• 1 String Quartet No. 12: Billie Holiday 9:46
• 2 String Quartet No. 12: Pacifica 10:49

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