Various Artists: Lift Every Voice: Honoring African American - CD

Title: Lift Every Voice: Honoring African American
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Sony Masterworks
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 886974392125
Genre: Pop
Release Date: 2009-02-17
Number of Discs: 1

Sony teamed with Carnegie Hall to compile this 2-CD set of songs by African-American artists who've enriched that hallowed hall's legacy over the years. This eclectic gem includes So What Miles Davis; Ol' Man River Paul Robeson; Matilda Harry Belafonte; Ain't No Sunshine Bill Withers; Soulville Aretha Franklin, plus everyone from Dizzy and Ella to Mahalia, Mathis, Jessye Norman and more!

Tracks:
1.1 Matilda (Norman Spann)-Harry Belafonte
1.2 Ol' Man River (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein)-Paul Robeson
1.3 On Children (Ysaye M. Barnwell)-Sweet Honey in the Rock
1.4 Move on Up a Little Higher (Rev. W.H. Brewster)-Mahalia Jackson
1.5 So What (Miles Davis)-Miles Davis
1.6 "Let the Bright Seraphim" from Samson (Handel)-Wynton Marsalis ; Kathleen Battle
1.7 Du Bist Die Ruh'(Schubert)-Roland Hayes
1.8 "Erbarme Dich" from St. Matthew's Passion (Bach)-Marian Anderson
1.9 Un Bel DÃ- from Madama Butterfly (Puccini)-Leontyne Price
1.10 Die Nachtigall(A. Berg)-Jessye Norman ; Pierre Boulez
2.1 A House Is Not a Home (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)-Luther Vandross
2.2 Night in Tunisia (Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli)-Dizzy Gillespie
2.3 Come Sunday - Part Iv-Mahalia Jackson ; Duke Ellington
2.4 Come Home (Andrae Crouch)-Andrae Crouch
2.5 Ain't No Sunshine (Bill Withers)-Bill Withers
2.6 A Tisket a Tasket(V. Alexander, E. Fitzgerald)-Ella Fitzgerald
2.7 99 Miles from la (A. Hammond, H. David)-Johnny Mathis
2.8 Guess Who I Saw Today(M. Grand, E. Boyd)-Nancy Wilson
2.9 Soulville (Aretha Franklin)-Aretha Franklin
2.10 I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (Billy Taylor)-Nina Simone