Discography

with my blood drum spirit ensemble and master artists

blood drum spirit double CD


ancestors double CD


blood drum spirit: the royal hartigan ensemble live in china double CD

eve, a documentary and artistic video of my work in West Africa and its relation to the African American music cultures 1997; also found as an enhanced video on the blood drum spirit Innova CD reissue 2003

with colleagues

Saint Michael’s College Glee Club (William Tortolano, director):

tenor vocalist in Brahms Requiem tribute to John Fitzgerald Kennedy, with the Boston Civic Symphony Orchestra at Jordan Hall, Boston, MA, Kalman Novak, conductor 1966.

Michael William Gilbert:

In The Dreamtime 1980 and The Call 1981

Juba:

Look on the Rainbow 1987

Talking Drums Highlife and African Jazz Ensemble:

Talking Drums 1985 and Someday Catch, Someday Down 1987

Fred Ho Afro-Asian Music Ensemble, Monkey Orchestra, Journey to the West Orchestra, Green Monster Big Band:

We Refuse to be Used and Abused and Song for Manong 1988
Underground Railroad to My Heart 1994
Monkey Epic: Part 1 1996
Turn Pain into Power 1997
Monkey Epic Part 2 1997
Yes Means Yes, No Means No, Whatever She Says, Wherever She Goes! 1998
Warrior Sisters: The New Adventures of African and Asian Women Warriors 1999
Night Vision: A Third to First World Vampyre Opera 2000
Voice of the Dragon: Once Upon a Time in Chinese America 2001
The Black Panther Suite: All Power to the People! 2003

forthcoming with Fred Ho –

Voice of the Dragon 2: Shaolin Secret Stories
Big Red!
Blazing on the Turquoise Sea
Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon!
Fred Ho and the Celestial Green Monster Big Band

Lucinda Ellert and the Happy Feet Orchestra:

Happy Feet 1989

The David Bindman-Tyrone Henderson Project:

Strawman Dance 1993
Iliana's Dance 1996

Hafez Modirzadeh's ensemble:

In Chromodal Discourse 1993
Nava-Ye Mardom: The People's Blues 1996
The Mystery of Sama 1998
By Any Mode Necessary 1999

Nathaniel Mackey and Hafez Modirzadeh:

Songs of the Andoumboulou 1995

Michael Heffley:

Collaborations with Dead and Living Males and Females from Different Gene Pools 1999
Fishy Scales, Fuji Scaled 2003
Big and Little Instrus, Parts 1 and 2 2007

soundSFound Orchestra:

Classical Stretch 2005

Dan Newman, Hafez Modirzadeh, and Global Phatness:

Suraghati 2005

Paul Austerlitz:

Journey 2008

Chen Hongyu:

Contemporary Compositions Recital by Soprano Chen Hongyu 1994