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Weary blues
Title
Weary blues [sound recording].
Published
New York, N.Y. : Verve, p1990.
Physical Description
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Poems by Langston Hughes read to jazz arr. & conducted by Leonard Feather (works 1-7) & Charles Mingus (works 8-15).
Compact disc.
Originally issued on analog discs in the 1960s.
Program notes by Leonard Feather (reprinted from the original issue) inserted in container.
Format
Audio
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Performers
Langston Hughes, reader ; Sam Taylor, tenor saxophone & clarinet, Red Allen, trumpet, Vic Dickenson, trombone, Al Williams, piano, Milt Hinton, bass, Osie Johnson, drums, Leonard Feather, conductor (works 1-7) ; Shafi Hadi, tenor saxophone, Jimmy Knepper, trombone, Horace Parlan, piano, Kenny Dennis, drums, Charles Mingus, bass & conductor (works 8-15).
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.
Issue number
841 660-2 Verve
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