Louisiana Blues Strut, a Cakewalk For Solo Violin; Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (Lauren Keiser Music)

Louisiana Blues Strut: a Cakewalk For Solo Violin by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004), named for the black Romantic-era composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, had wide-ranging musical interests. He composed classical works, but also worked as a jazz pianist and wrote film scores as well as pop arrangements for the likes of Marvin Gaye and Harry Belafonte. His classical concert music fuses Baroque sensibility and lyrical expression with elements of the blues, jazz, and spirituals in a strikingly contemporary sound.

Perkinson's ''Louisiana Blues Strut: A Cakewalk'' (2000) for solo violin was originally intended to be fourth movement for his earlier ''Blue/s Forms'' (1972), but he was satisfied leaving it as a standalone showpiece. It is a grooving, delightful dialogue between fiddle and blues. Master level, Grade 6.