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Cecilia Smith: Chronicle Of A Life Embraced
by Jason Crane
On the new episode of The Jazz Session, Jason Crane interviews vibraphonist and composer Cecilia Smith. Smith's new project, Dark Triumph (CEA Music, 2005) chronicles the life of her aunt, Victoria Lancaster Smith, through spoken word, improvisation, orchestral arrangements, members of the Boys Choir of Harlem, and a jazz rhythm section. This ambitious album originated when ...
Dark Triumph: The Life of Victoria Lancaster Smith
Label: CEA Music Company
Released: 2006
Track listing: Black Spring, Spring: The Darkest Child, Seating By Color, Too Light A Negro For Me: A Love
Story, New Births:Spring, Grief And Disasters; An African American In Rio Frio Costa Rica;
From Confusion To Order: Spring; Dark Triumph!
Dark Triumph
Label: CEA Music Company
Released: 2006
Track listing: Birth Spring; Spring/The Darkest Child; Seating by Color; Too Light a Negro for Me--A Love
Story; New Birth--Spring; Grief and Disasters; An African American in Rio Frio Costa Rica;
Africa Remembered; From Confusion to Order/Spring.
Cecilia Smith: Dark Triumph: The Life of Victoria Lancaster Smith
by Michael P. Gladstone
For some reason, after listening to Dark Triumph, I am reminded of a 1967 Impulse! album by Oliver Nelson titled Musical Tribute to JFK: The Kennedy Dream. Although it took Nelson several years to compose and record original material to memorialize the Kennedy White House years, his use of soundbites from JFK's speeches, mingled with his ...
Cecilia Smith: Dark Triumph
by Dan McClenaghan
Victoria L. Smith was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1931. She was the first black nurse hired in St Charles Hospital in Toledo, Ohio. She served in the Red Cross and the Peace Corps. By the measure of fame and popular recognition, she is an ordinary woman, but by another measure--the real and truthful one--she is ...
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