{"product_id":"langston-hughes-harlem-in-vogue-the-poetry-and-jazz-of-langston-hughes","title":"Langston Hughes: Harlem In Vogue, The Poetry and Jazz Of Langston Hughes - COMPACT DISCS","description":"\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eHarlem In Vogue, The Poetry and Jazz Of Langston Hughes\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eArtist: \u003c\/b\u003eLangston Hughes\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eFingertips\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eProduct Type: \u003c\/b\u003eCOMPACT DISCS\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e809236180124\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003eJazz\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/b\u003e2011-09-27\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eNumber of Discs: \u003c\/b\u003e1\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eAdditional Details: \u003c\/b\u003eDIGIPACK PACKAGING\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \n                                         29 track collection of classic material by Langston Hughes, a key innovator, novelist, playwright and poet whose best-known work sparked the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. 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 1950s 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 occasions since, as well as Hughes' recollections of bars and boulevards and the emotive study of \"dark\" America on the poignant \"I Too.\" Finally, the collection closes with two Hughes interpretations by Bob Dorough with the Bob Dorough Quintet from the similarly rare vinyl album 'Jazz Canto Volume 1.' Remastered with sleeve notes by MOJO magazine's Dave Henderson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.1 Hey (Night)\/Too Blue\/Ballad of the Fortune Teller \u003cbr\u003e1.2 Note on the Comercial Theatre \u003cbr\u003e1.3 The Weary Blues \u003cbr\u003e1.4 Blues at Dawn \u003cbr\u003e1.5 Six-Bits Blues \u003cbr\u003e1.6 Morning After \u003cbr\u003e1.7 Could Be\/Bad Luck Card\/Bad Man \u003cbr\u003e1.8 Life Is Fine \u003cbr\u003e1.9 Hey Hey (Morn) \u003cbr\u003e1.10 Testament \u003cbr\u003e1.11 Consider Me \u003cbr\u003e1.12 Warning: Augmented \u003cbr\u003e1.13 Motto\/Dead in There \u003cbr\u003e1.14 Final Curve \u003cbr\u003e1.15 Boogie: 1 A.M \u003cbr\u003e1.16 Bed Time \u003cbr\u003e1.17 Daybreak \u003cbr\u003e1.18 Tell Me \u003cbr\u003e1.19 Good Morning\/Harlem \u003cbr\u003e1.20 Same in Blues\/Comment on Curb \u003cbr\u003e1.21 Democracy\/Island\/Extract from Warning: Augmented\/Jump Monk \u003cbr\u003e1.22 The Weary Blues: Wide River\/Homesick Blues\/Night and Morn \u003cbr\u003e1.23 Feet Live Their Own Life \u003cbr\u003e1.24 Wooing the Muse \u003cbr\u003e1.25 Simple Prays a Prayer \u003cbr\u003e1.26 I Have Known Rivers \u003cbr\u003e1.27 I Too \u003cbr\u003e1.28 Daybreak in Alabama \u003cbr\u003e1.29 Night and Morn\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Langston Hughes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32431889809479,"sku":"15970169","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2976\/0132\/files\/1864008.jpg?v=1747355873","url":"https:\/\/tower.com\/products\/langston-hughes-harlem-in-vogue-the-poetry-and-jazz-of-langston-hughes","provider":"Tower Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}