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Playing Langston Hughes's Jazzy Verse

Among the challenges confronting any composer intent on setting to music Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz, a set of poems completed by Langston Hughes in 1961, probably the most daunting is that Hughes already called the tunes. His dazzling poems, by turns earnest, raffish and folksy, bulge with references to famous musicians and familiar ...

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The Weary Blues With Langston Hughes

Label: Verve Records
Released: 1958
Track listing: 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;


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