Langston Hughes, Charles Mingus And Leonard Feather - Weary Blues flac album

Weary Blues (also referred to as The Weary Blues) is an album by American poet Langston Hughes reciting over jazz composed and arranged by Charles Mingus and Leonard Feather. The album was recorded in 1958 and first released on the MGM label. Blues Montage: Opening Blues/Blues Montage/Commercial Theater/Morning After/Could Be/Testament". Consider Me: The Stranger/Midnight Stroll/Backstage.

Featuring the super rare Weary Blues album where Hughes incisive poetry was set to music by Leonard Feather's All-Star Sextet and Charles Mingus and the Horace Parlan Quintet from two late 1950 s sessions. An early conceptual piece, The Weary Blues highlighted New York life in Harlem at the end of the 50s painting a vivid story in words and also some fine jazz playing. The set also features Hughes spoken word versions of some of the tracks along with other socially-charged pieces including the influential I Have Known Rivers, which has been interpreted by jazz and soul exponents on many.

Arranged By – Charles Mingus (tracks: 8 to 15), Leonard Feather (tracks: 1 to 7). Bass – Charles Mingus (tracks: 8 to 15), Milt Hinton (tracks: 1 to 7. The recordings contained in this album were previously released in the MGM album entitled "Weary" Blues (E-3697). Duration of tracks are not shown on the insert.

Weary Blues (also referred to as The Weary Blues) is an album by American poet Langston Hughes reciting over jazz composed and arranged by Charles Mingus and Leonard Feather Weary Blues Track listing. Dream Montage: Weird Nightmare/Double G Train/Jump Monk.

Today we feature recordings of Langston Hughes reading two of his earliest and best-known poems from his debut 1926 collection The Weary Blues. That next year, Hughes collaborated with Charles Mingus and Leonard Feather on an album of jazz readings called The Weary Blues. Critic Donald B. Gibson once noted that Hughes may have read his poetry to more people (possibly) than any other American poet.

After their marriage, Charles Langston moved with his family to Kansas, where he was active as an educator and activist for voting and rights for African Americans. His and Mary's daughter Caroline (known as Carrie) became a schoolteacher and married James Nathaniel Hughes (1871–1934)  . Hughes was featured reciting his poetry on the album Weary Blues (MGM, 1959), with music by Charles Mingus and Leonard Feather, and he also contributed lyrics to Randy Weston's Uhuru Afrika (Roulette, 1960). Hughes' life has been portrayed in film and stage productions since the late 20th century. In Looking for Langston (1989), British filmmaker Isaac Julien claimed him as a black gay icon - Julien thought that Hughes' sexuality had historically been ignored or downplayed.

In 1958, Langston Hughes did a meek collaboration with jazz musicians. He read some of his poems to arrangements by Leonard Feather and Charles Mingus. Langston Hughes: Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, I heard a Negro play. Curtis Fox: On today’s program we’re going to sample some of the tracks of The Weary Blues, a recording from Verve Records. I’m joined by saxophonist and composer Charles Girard and by poet and multimedia performer Holly Bass. Their ensemble, Washington Music Of Eva, recently performed a recreation of The Weary Blues with original.