The Weary Blues
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FW-ASCH-LP-3849

MGM.3697
label: Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint)
content: MGM 1958
label: General
content: 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.
name: label: Performer
content: Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
label: Collection Creator
content: Asch, Moses
label: Collection Creator
content: Distler, Marian, 1919-1964
label: Collection Creator
content: Folkways Records
topic: label: Topic
content: Jazz
label: Topic
content: African Americans
creator: label: Performer
content: Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
culture: label: Culture
content: Americans
setName: label: See more items in
content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection
label: See more items in
content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection / Series 9: Audio Recordings / LP
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Phonograph record (analog, 33 1/3 rpm, 12 in.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1958
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.ASCH, Item FW-ASCH-LP-3849
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Phonograph records
scopecontent: label: Contents
content: 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).