Life & Times of Malcolm X

Anthony Davis (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 18, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Gramavision
• ASIN: B000003223
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #225,310 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Overture

2. Act 1. Scene 1

3. Act 1. Scene 1. Africa for Africans

4. Act 1. Scene 1. Louise's Aria

5. Act 1. Scene 1. A man was on the tracks

6. Act 1. Scene 1. Social Worker & Ensemble

7. Act 1. Scene 1. Child's Aria

8. Act 1. Scene 2. Ella's Aria

9. Act 1. Scene 2. The Pool Hall

10. Act 1. Scene 2. The Dance Hall

See all 14 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Act 2. Scene 1. Malcolm who have you been

2. Act 2. Scene 1. We have been blind

3. Act 2. Scene 1. Allabu Akbar / Scene 2

4. Act 2. Scene 2. Garvey Preacher & Ensemble

5. Act 2. Scene 2. Where are we now brothers / Scene 3

6. Act 2. Scene 4. We are a nation

7. Act 2. Scene 4. Chickens come home to roost

8. Act 3. Scene 1. Betrayal is on his lips

9. Act 3. Scene 1. As-Salaam-Alaikum / Act 3. Interlude

10. Act 3. Interlude. Betty's Aria

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great American Opera, April 17, 2004

By 

Allan J. Cronin "francis gerard" (Alameda, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Life & Times of Malcolm X (Audio CD)

Though unfortunately little known Davis' "X" is a very listenable and exciting score. I was privileged to hear a concert staging of excerpts at the Chicago Humanities festival in 1992. This deserves to be back in print and, hopefully, staged again. The music is jazz-inflected and very much in the fabric of American nationalist composers such as Bernstein and Copland. Get this if you can find it and play it for others. It deserves to be heard.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars As a performer on the album, I think this is a accurate, December 7, 2002

By 

Cornelius White (Tampa, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Life & Times of Malcolm X (Audio CD)

As a performer, who actually recorded the project, I think the album gives a minimal picture of the actual excitement which occured the actual times this was performed on stage.
The Fruit of Islam in regalia at City Opera and the applause received in this production's infantry was like no other pathos I've experienced.

Performances by Priscilla Baskerville as Ella (Malcolm's Mother) is still haunting, the Choruses ("We are a nation") are still thrilling and just the overall storytelling aspect is both educational for our younger (Hip Hop generation), even though they may not be music buffs, they'll get the story.

Combinations of Classical, Minnimalism and Jazz permeate in a stylistic way that can be captured by no one else like Anthony Davis.

I, on a personal level, found this project a great achievment and I hope you'll hear the concept as it started with Mr. Davis' 13 piece group (Epistome) and grew to a full Orchestra!

The CD is hard to find, so Unless there are other projects in the works to re-record this project...you need to go ahead and get this one!

Cornelius White,
Tenor