For Martin Luther King Jr. Day, GPB features Mary D. Watkins' Five Movements in Color ("an epochal painting about our journey in this country"), John Duffy's Saxophone Concerto (whose slow movement was inspired by the civil rights-era church bombing in Birmingham), Mary Lee Taylor Kinosian's American Story (historical scenes from various perspectives, ending in our "ongoing determination to move forward...learn and grow together") and the new Atlanta Symphony recording of Alvin Singleton's PraiseMaker, about "who we were" and "who we are to be."
| Artist | Title | Album | Label | Help Support GPB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duffy, John | Saxophone Concerto: Manhattan Juggernaut; Harlem, Memorial for Children; Opening Day, Yankee Stadium | Glenn Morrissette, Cassatt String Quartet, Tomoya Aomori | Albany 1240 | iTunes Link |
| Gershwin, George | Rhapsody in Blue, original version for piano and jazz band | George Gershwin (via piano roll), Columbia Jazz Band, Thomas | CBS 42240 | |
| Singleton, Alvin | PraiseMaker | Atlanta Sym Orch and Chorus, Spano | Telarc 32630 | iTunes Link |
| Trad. spiritual/Coleman | Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit | Imani Wind Quintet | Imani 6227 | |
| Watkins, Mary D. | Five Movements in Color: Once Upon a Time; Soul of Remembrance; Urban Suave and Dance Survivalist; Slow Burn; Drive-by Runner | New Black Music Repertory Ensemble, Dunner | Albany 1200 | iTunes Link |
| Coleman, V (Valerie) | Concerto for Wind Quintet | Imani Wind Quintet | Koch 7599 | iTunes Link |
| Trad. spiritual/Coleman | Lift Every Voice and Sing | Imani Wind Quintet | Imani 6227 | |
| Kinosian, Mary Lee Taylor | The American Story: Genesis, Cry in the Wilderness, Muddy Waters Reel, Consequences, Synthesis | Upton Trio (Kinosian, Vukajlovic, Shepherd) | Albany 1151 | iTunes Link |
| Still, William Grant | Symphony No. 1, "Afro-American" (1930) | Chicago Sinfonietta, Freeman | Cedille 90000 055 | iTunes Link |
