Return To Glory -- The "Return To Glory" Jazz Music Compilation CD inspired by the bestselling book and film, Return To Glory

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Track #1 -- :45
Ancestral Chant (Ciaphus Semenya)
Composer: Ciaphus Semenya
Publisher: Ashley Barbara Music, Publishing/BMI

Track # 2 -- 5:01
Return To Glory (Jazz Crusaders)
Wayne Henderson with Special Guests
Composer: Wayne Henderson
Lead Vocal: Philip Ingram
Background Vocals: Ronnie, Debra and Eloise Laws and Alex Brown
Yoruba Vocals: Philip Ingram and Kevin Dorsey
Publisher: Silver Carvings Music (BMI)

Track #3 -- 5:39
Down Yonder (Jazz Crusaders, Wayne Henderson)
Trombone: Wayne Henderson
Tenor Sax: Wilton Felder
Piano and Organ: Bobbie Lyle
Guitar: Dwight Silles
Bass: Nathan East
Drums: Tony Moore
Funk/Scat/Gospel Vocal: Alex Brown
Background Vocals: Patryce Banks and Choir
Publisher: Silver Carvings Music (BMI)

Track #4 -- 6:29
Glory Glory (Wayman Tisdale)
Composer: Wayman Tisdale
All Instruments: Wayman Tisdale
Percussion: Manchito Sanchez
Lead Vocal: Karnett Murrell
Background Vocals: Danielle & Wayman Tisdale
Publisher: Tisway Music

Track #5 -- 3:37
Only Yesterday (Duke Ellington, Joe Lovano and Joe Beck)
Music By: Duke Ellington
Tenor Sax: Joe Lovano
Alto Guitar: Joe Beck
Publisher: Music Sales Corp. & Tin Hand Publishing

Track #6 -- 1:33
Shining Star (Featuring Grover Washington, Jr.)
Piano: Arturo O'Farrill
Bass: George Mraz
Drums: Steve Barrios
Music: Duke Ellington
Publisher: Music Sales Corp. & Tin Hand Publishing
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Track #7 -- 5:43
America's Cry (Allen & Allen)
Composer: Allen & Allen / Irving Berlin &Tom Fettke
Publisher: Bru Nite Music/Russax Music/Hat Leonard Corp/Irving Berlin Music
Keys: Derrieux Edgecomb
Guitar: Rick Watford
Drums: Corey Johnson
Bass: Lawrence Buckner
Piano: Bruce Allen
Soprano Sax: Allen Wiggins

Track #8 -- 5:24
Yeah! (Demetrius)
Composer: Sean D. Senior and R. Cory Johnson
Lead Vocal: Demetrius
Background Vocals: Demetrius, Delvonya, Tanika Harris, Monica Lambert & Felix Brown
Produced By: Sean D. Senior
Bass: Lawrence Buckner

Track #9 -- 5:14
Feminine Fire (Lamont O'Neil)
Composer: Ivan Ramirez
Lead Vocal: Lamont O'Neil
Keyboard: Nolan Ellis William, Jr.
All Other Instruments: Ivan Ramirez
Publisher: TLE Music Publishing

Track #10 -- 4:58
Return To Glory (Instrumental)
Wayne Henderson with Special Guests
Composer: Wayne Henderson
Lead Vocal: Philip Ingram
Background Vocals: Ronnie, Debra and Eloise Laws and Alex Brown
Yoruba Vocals: Philip Ingram and Kevin Dorsey
Publisher: Silver Carvings Music (BMI)

Track #11 -- 4:41
Joey (Lamont O'Neil)
Composer: Lamont O'Neil and Ivan Ramirez
Lead Vocal: Lamont O'Neil
Sax: David Sievers
All Other Instruments: Ivan Ramirez
Publisher: TLE Music Publishing

Track #12 -- 3:39
Standing Tall (Jazz Crusaders)
Trombone: Wayne Henderson
Tenor Sax: Wilton Felder
Piano and Organ: Bobbie Lyle
Guitar: Dwight Silles
Bass: Nathan East
Drums: Tony Moore
Funk/Scat/Gospel Vocal: Alex Brown
Background Vocals: Patryce Banks and Choir
Publisher: Silver Carvings Music (BMI)

The ever-expanding Freeman Institute Black History Collection has items such as:

   1. Authentic, priceless slave ball, with handle (50 lb.) -- #3 written on it, for "trouble-makers", manufactured late 1600s -- used on the London-based slave ship, Henrietta Marie, the oldest identifiable slave ship wreck in the world (summer, 1700) ; featured in National Geographic's (August, 2002). By one estimate Henrietta Marie’s cargo grossed well over £3,000 (more than $400,000 today) for the ship’s investors. Most of the captives were headed for sugar plantations where they’d be worked to exhaustion, many dying within five to ten years. Sturdy and fast, The Henrietta Marie traveled the infamous triangular trade route favored by the slavers - from England to the Guinea coast, to the Americas, then home again. Accounts relating to the Henrietta Marie’s voyages were uncovered, as were the names of her investors, captains, and wills of some of her crew members. Artifacts found at the site proved particularly helpful in creating a picture of shipboard life and the practices of the slave trade.
   2. Two Wedgwood jasperware black on white Anti-Slavery medallions, with the bound slave on the front, and the words "Am I Not A Man and A Brother?" around it. Also, a rare 1800s antique bronze figure of man (6" high, weighs 18 oz.) pictured in medallion.
   3. One-of-a-kind signed letters/albums/contracts/sheet music from Nat King Cole, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong, B. B. King, Ethel Waters, Pearl Bailey, Miles Davis, Fats Domino, Quincy Jones, Earl Hines, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis, Jr., Grover Washington, Jr., Count Basie, Mills Brothers, Ozzie Davis, Lena Horne, Four Tops, Cicely Tyson, James Brown, Charlie Pride, Bo Diddley, Bobby Blue and others...
   4. A rare 1838 (third edition) copy of Phillis Wheatley's book, "Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, A Native African and a Slave" -- Includes memoir, George Washington's letter to Wheatley, preface by John Wheatley, plus poems by another slave, George Moses Horton, with introduction and letters. And also the 1773 edition of the Gentleman's Magazine -- first published mention of Phillis Wheatley's book, first printed in the UK, paid for by the Countess of Huntingdon.
   5. Silver Civil War locket (1860s), containing two tin-type pictures of African American women, worn by an African American soldier.
   6. The Rosetta Stone, a First Edition 55-page article in Archaeologia: Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, Volume XVI, published by The Society of Antiquaries of London. 1812. Some of the first published articles about the Rosetta Stone. This is historic in light of the fact that the code to Hieroglyphics wasn't cracked until 1822 by Jean Champollion.
   7. Riggs Bank check written and signed on July 3, 1907 by Judson W. Lyons, ex-slave from Georgia and first African-American lawyer to practice in the state of Georgia. He was appointed Register of the US Treasury from 1898-1906 and as such, his signature appeared on US currency issued during those years.
   8. 1820s "T Porter" slave button (from Antigua, British West Indies), used to identify the owner of a slave.
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