String Quartets nos. 1–12

Tracklist

• CD 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
• CD 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
• CD 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
• CD 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
• CD 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
• CD 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
• CD 7
• 1
  String Quartet No. 12: Billie Holiday
  9:46
• 2
  String Quartet No. 12: Pacifica
  10:49

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Release credits

• Alison Bjorkedal
  harp [4, 6-7]
• Anthony Davis
  piano [2]
• Lorenz Gamma
  violin [2]
• Lynn Vartan
  percussion [2]
• RedKoral Quartet
  string quartet, string quartet
• Stuart Fox
  guitar [3]
• Thomas Buckner
  vocal [1]
• Wadada Leo Smith
  trumpet [3.2, 4.1]

Issues

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  String Quartets nos. 1–12

  7x CD
  17 June 2022