Langston Hughes - Harlem In Vogue, The Poetry and Jazz Of Langston Hughes - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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 InchI Have Known Rivers,Inch 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 InchdarkInch America on the poignant InchI Too.Inch 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. Album Tracks 1. Hey (Night)/Too Blue/Ballad of the Fortune Teller 2. Note on the Comercial Theatre 3. The Weary Blues 4. Blues at Dawn 5. Six-Bits Blues 6. Morning After 7. Could Be/Bad Luck Card/Bad Man 8. Life Is Fine 9. Hey Hey (Morn) 10. Testament 11. Consider Me 12. Warning Augmented 13. Motto/Dead in There 14. Final Curve 15. Boogie 1 A.M 16. Bed Time 17. Daybreak 18. Tell Me 19. Good Morning/Harlem 20. Same in Blues/Comment on Curb 21. Democracy/Island/Extract from Warning Augmented/Jump Monk 22. The Weary Blues Wide River/Homesick Blues/Night and Morn 23. Feet Live Their Own Life 24. Wooing the Muse 25. Simple Prays a Prayer 26. I Have Known Rivers 27.