A Black Suite For String Quartet And Jazz Orchestra
Carl B Stokes
Olver Nelson
A Black Suite For String Quartet And Jazz Orchestra by Oliver Nelson, Part "C"- "Sit Down" From "The Mayor And The People" 1970 Flying Dutchman
The full album includes a Press Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, November, 1969
Music written by Oliver Nelson
Produced by Bob Thiele, Flying Dutchman Productions Ltd.
Published by Noslen Music - BMI
Orchestra arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson
Carl B. Stokes was the first black mayor of a major American city (Cleveland, between 1968 and 1971) believed in working within the system in order to change it.
The first side of the album was a recording of a press conference. The second side featured Stokes reciting a variety of black poetry over a wonderful orchestral score by Oliver Nelson. His reading of Langston Hughes´'Sit Down' is excellent the side with the Poem 'Paint It Black' by newcomer Gil Scott-Heron.