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Randall Goosby - Roots

Randall Goosby (violin), Zhu Wang (piano), Xavier Dubois Foley (double bass)

Randall Goosby - Roots

Awards:

Goosby’s selections reveal him as a quietly lyrical artist with a gift for genre hopping well displayed in the Baroque/blues fusions of ColeridgeTaylor, Perkinson’s Blue/s Forms or Xavier Dubois...

Randall Goosby - Roots

Randall Goosby (violin), Zhu Wang (piano), Xavier Dubois Foley (double bass)

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Awards:

Goosby’s selections reveal him as a quietly lyrical artist with a gift for genre hopping well displayed in the Baroque/blues fusions of ColeridgeTaylor, Perkinson’s Blue/s Forms or Xavier Dubois...

About

'Roots’ is an exploration of the music written by Black composers and inspired by Black culture. A homage to the pioneering musicians who paved the way for Randall and his generation. Looking to the future with a specially commissioned piece by young Black composer Xavier Dubois Foley. World premiere recordings of music by Florence Price that was rescued from an abandoned house over half a century after her death. The Perlman protégé celebrates his own journey and shows young people that music can inspire regardless of background. Produced by 2021 GRAMMY Producer of the Year, David Frost.

Contents and tracklist

I. Plain Blue / s
Track length2:04
II. Just Blue / s
Track length3:02
III. Jettin' Blue / s
Track length2:53
Summertime (Arr. Heifetz for Violin and Piano)
Track length2:00
A Woman Is a Sometime Thing (Arr. Heifetz for Violin and Piano)
Track length1:49
It Ain't Necessarily So (Arr. Heifetz for Violin and Piano)
Track length2:41
Bess, You Is My Woman Now (Arr. Heifetz for Violin and Piano)
Track length3:35
I. African Dancer
Track length4:42
II. Mother and Child
Track length7:19
III. Garmin
Track length2:13
I. Allegro risoluto
Track length6:08
II. Larghetto
Track length4:16
III. Scherzo. Molto vivace
Track length3:01
IV. Finale. Allegro
Track length6:09

Spotlight on this release

  • Randall Goosby on Roots

    1st Jul 2021by Katherine Cooper

    The violinist talks to Katherine about his debut album on Decca, celebrating the influence which Black composers and performers have had on American music from the late nineteenth century to the present day.

Awards and reviews

September 2021

Goosby’s selections reveal him as a quietly lyrical artist with a gift for genre hopping well displayed in the Baroque/blues fusions of ColeridgeTaylor, Perkinson’s Blue/s Forms or Xavier Dubois Foley’s Shelter Island, in which violin and double bass spend five minutes hanging loose.

August 2021

This is selfless, stylish playing which – paradoxically – ends up by projecting the personalities of both artists with even more freshness and warmth.

June 2021

You only have to hear the way he phrases the first three notes of Summertime to realise this young American violinist is something special, but it’s the less familiar fare that really makes this an album to conjure with: Xavier Dubois Foley’s Shelter Island makes for an irresistible opener, the two Perlman Program alumni riffing off one another with giddy exuberance, whilst Perkinson’s Blues Forms showcases Goosby’s virtuoso chops and distinctive, glassy upper register to perfection.

24th June 2021

Goosby’s mentors include Sanford Allen, the dedicatee of Perkinson’s pieces and the first black violinist in the New York Philharmonic, and Itzhak Perlman. You can hear the influence of the latter in the suavity and lushness of his playing, never more so than in the slow middle movement of William Grant Still’s 1943 Suite: Goosby finds a special tone here, soft but vibrant, and the melody soars.
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