Blues montage (parts I, II & III) / Hughes. Opening blues ; Blues montage ; Commercial theatre ; Morning after ; Could be / Feather (3:10 ; 6:50 ; 7:41) --Testament / Hughes, Feather (5:45) --Consider me / Hughes. The Stranger ; Midnight stroll ; Backstage / Mingus (3:19) --Dream montage / Hughes. Weird nightmare ; Double G train ; Jump monk / Mingus (16:35).
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-LP-3849
MGM.3697
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
MGM 1958
General:
Poetry reading to jazz and blues background. Program notes and durations on container. Performer(s): Langston Hughes reads poems to blues and jazz music performed by Red Allen, Vic Dickenson, Sam (The Man) Taylor, Al Williams, Milt Hinton, Osie Johnson, and the Horace Parlan Quintet. Production notes: "The thirty-three Langston Hughes poems read by him on this LP were recorded in New York City March 17 and 18, 1958"--Container.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
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