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Weary blues

Title: Weary blues [sound recording] / with Langston Hughes, Charles Mingus and Leonard Feather.
Author: Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
Publication: New York : PolyGram Records, p1990.

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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Audio	Use in library	*LDC 7596 (F)	Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Description

1 sound disc : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subjects

Note

"Bittersweet poems of protest and joy by that fine African American poet Langston Hughes read to a surging cadence of jazz composed in part by Leonard Feather and in part by Charles Mingus and played by the Horace Parlan Trio and an All-Star Sextet..." -- Container insert.
Original LP liner notes and postscript, by Leonard Feather, on container insert.

Event (note)

Recorded March, 1958, New York City.

Contents

Blues montage -- Opening blues -- Blues montage -- Commercial theater -- Morning after -- Could be -- Testament -- Consider me -- The stranger -- MIdnight stroll -- Backstage -- Dream montage -- Weird nightmare -- Double G train -- Jump monk.

Call Number

*LDC 7596 (F)

OCLC

30394709
21953167

Author

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.

Title

Weary blues [sound recording] / with Langston Hughes, Charles Mingus and Leonard Feather.

Imprint

New York : PolyGram Records, p1990.

Performer

Langston Hughes, narrator ; Red Allen, trumpet ; Vic Dickerson, trombone ; Sam (The Man) Taylor, tenor saxophone, clarinet ; Al Williams, piano ; Milt Hinton, bass ; Osie Johnson, drums (Tracks 1-7) ; Horace Parlan, piano, leader ; Jimmy Knepper, trombone ; Shafi Hadi, tenor saxophone ; Charles Mingus, bass ; Kenny Dennis, drums (Tracks 8-15).

Event

Recorded March, 1958, New York City.

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Feather, Leonard, 1914-1994. Performer

Mingus, Charles, 1922-1979. Performer

Horace Parlan Trio. Performer

Publisher No.

841 660-2 Verve

Research Call Number

*LDC 7596 (F) Program notes on file.

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