The Weary Blues

Langston Hughes - Charles Mingus - Leonard Feather - Horace Parlan

     
 

Recording Information

1990 Polygram Records Inc.     Verve: 841 660-2
Date and location March 18, 1958, New York City
Total time: *
Original issue Candid 9005 ( 1960)
Producer Leonard Feather
Engineer Val Valentin
liner notes Leonard Feather




Personnel
Langston Hughes - poetry
Shafi Hadi (Curtis Porter) -    tenor sax
Jimmy Knepper - trombone
Horace Parlan - piano, leader
Charles Mingus - bass
Kenny Dennis - drums
  
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Bitter-sweet 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. A remarkable performance, now available in its entirety after a long abscence from the catologue

All compositions by Charles Mingus





The pieces on this recordings are:
  • Consider Me
  • The Stranger
  • Midnight Stroll
  • Backstage
  • Dream Montage
  • Weird Nightmare
  • Double G Train
  • Jump Monk
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    SAMPLE : " Good Morning, daddy. I was born here, he said ....
  • Dream Montage
    		• For text see also the poem:
  • Good Morning



    • This sample is from a dutch radio broadcast in 1989:
    VPRO - Michiel de Ruyter

    Michiel de Ruyter - his vioce
  •   Michiel de Ruyter
    		• Read more about the radioman
  • Michiel de Ruyter (in Dutch)







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