Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 4 episodes and was first played on 5 January 2018.

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (June 14, 1932, Winston-Salem, North Carolina—March 9, 2004, Chicago) was an innovative American composer whose interests spanned the worlds of jazz, dance, pop, film, television, and classical music.

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson was Afro-American. He was named for the Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912). Perkinson's mother was active in music and the arts as a piano teacher, church organist, and director of a theater company.

Perkinson attended the High School of Music and Art in New York City and studied composition with Vittorio Giannini and…