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Weary blues / with Langston Hughues, Charles Mingus, and Leonard Feather.

Author/creator Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 instrumentalist.
Format Audio (CD) and Musical Sound Recording
Publication InfoNew York, N.Y. : Verve, ℗1990.
Description1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Subject(s)
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967--Musical settings.
Jazz--1951-1960.
Monologues with music (Jazz ensemble)
American poetry--20th century --Readings with music.
Other author/creatorMingus, Charles, 1922-1979, arranger of music, conductor, performer.
Other author/creatorFeather, Leonard, 1914-1994 arranger of music, conductor.
Other author/creatorAllen, Henry, 1908-1967 instrumentalist.
Other author/creatorDickenson, Vic, instrumentalist.
Other author/creatorTaylor, Sam, instrumentalist.
Other author/creatorWilliams, Al, 1919- instrumentalist.
Other author/creatorHinton, Milt instrumentalist.
Other author/creatorJohnson, Osie, instrumentalist.
Other author/creatorParlan, Horace instrumentalist.
Other author/creatorKnepper, Jimmy, 1927-2003 instrumentalist.
Other author/creatorHadi, Shafi, 1929- instrumentalist.
Other author/creatorDennis, Kenny instrumentalist.
Series TomtheJazzman Collection
TomtheJazzman Collection. UNAUTHORIZED
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.
Local noteGift of TomtheJazzman Mallison.
General notePoems by Langston Hughes read to jazz arr. and conducted by Leonard Feather (works 1-7) and Charles Mingus (works 8-15).
General noteOriginally issued as an analog disc in the 1960s.
General noteCompact disc.
General noteBiographical notes on Langston Hughes written by Leonard Feather ([4] p.) inserted in container.
Performer Langston Hughes, reader ; with, Sam Taylor (works 1-7), tenor saxophone and clarinet ; Shafi Hadi, tenor saxophone (works 8-15) ; Red Allen, trumpet (works 1-7) ; Vic Dickenson (works 1-7), Jimmy Knepper (works 8-15), trombone ; Al Williams (works 1-7), Horace Parlan (works 8-15), piano ; Milt Hinton (works 1-7), Charles Mingus (works 8-15), bass ; Osie Johnson (works 1-7), Kenny Dennis (works 8-15), drums.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded March, 1958, New York City.
Genre/formMusical settings.
Genre/formMusical settings.
Genre/formReadings with music.
UPC 042284166027
Publisher number841 660-2 Verve

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