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Rap Legend Ice-T and Jazz Trumpeter Ron McCurdy Debut The Langston Hughes Project At The Barbican On November 21, 2016 At 7:30pm!
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Nu Jazz Publicity
Rap Legend and actor Ice-T joins musical director and trumpeter Ron McCurdy, along with the Ron McCurdy Quartet, to bring a brilliant 21st century realization of American icon Langston Hughes’ creative masterpiece, the epic twelve-part jazz poem: Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz. A homage in verse, music, and multi-media to the struggle for artistic and social freedom at the beginning of the 1960s, Ask Your Mama evokes Hughes’ life and times and a message that resonates as strongly ...
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Guitarist/Composer Ken Hatfield Celebrates The Genius Of Harlem Renaissance Poet Langston Hughes With "For Langston", An Enthralling Song Cycle Drawn From His Blues-Steeped Verse
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Ken Hatfield
To Be Released February 1, 2013, Langston’s Birthday A supremely lyrical guitarist and award-winning composer with a deep love of literature, Ken Hatfield is always on the lookout for texts ripe for musical interpretation. He found an ideal muse in the great American poet Langston Hughes, whose rhythmically agile verse, marked by penetrating observations about love, life and politics, takes flight on For Langston, due out on Arthur Circle Music on February 1, 2013, Langston’s birthday. A chamber jazz work ...
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Jazz This Week: The Langston Hughes Project; Julian Lage; Hamiet Bluiett's Big Orchestra Band, Youth Division; Orange CD Release; and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's jazz and creative music offerings in St. Louis are a varied lot, from a multimedia project with an historical focus to a concert featuring a 50-piece band of students playing the compositions of one of St. Louis' greatest living jazz musicians, plus lots more. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, trumpeter Ron McCurdy brings his multimedia presentation The Langston Hughes Project to SIUE's Meridian Ballroom. For much more about this musical look at the jazz-influenced poet, author and ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The Langston Hughes Project
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today, we turn our video spotlight on T he Langston Hughes Project, a multi-media setting of Hughes' 1961 poem Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz" that will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 24 at the Meridian Ballroom on the campus of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville under the auspices of SIUE's Arts And Issues series. Led by trumpeter and jazz educator Ron McCurdy, the project combines a reading of Hughes' ...
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Hughes' Blues: The Langston Hughes Songbook
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David Brent Johnson
We know Langston Hughes as a celebrated African-American author of poems, essays, stories, memoirs and more. But Hughes also wrote songs-hundreds of them. Music was at the heart of his work, with jazz and blues informing the cadences, structures, and subject matter of many of his poems. In an early essay, The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," he touted jazz and blues as a valid and vital expression of African-American identity in art; he was one of the few ...
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Playing Langston Hughes's Jazzy Verse
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Michael Ricci
Among the challenges confronting any composer intent on setting to music Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz, a set of poems completed by Langston Hughes in 1961, probably the most daunting is that Hughes already called the tunes.
His dazzling poems, by turns earnest, raffish and folksy, bulge with references to famous musicians and familiar sounds. Alongside verse set entirely in capital letters, Hughes provided detailed musical cues, some referring to specific songs or instruments, others pointing to general ...
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Museum to Celebrate the Birthday of Langston Hughes with Children's Read-In
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All About Jazz
NEWTONVILLE, NJ - The African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey (AAHMSNJ) in conjunction with Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Professor, and Langston Hughes Scholar, Dr. David Roessel, will be throwing a birthday party for Langston Hughes along with a children's read-in on Thursday, February 2, 2006 from 4pm to 6pm. The selections for the read-in will come from the book Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes, an amazing text which was illustrated by the legendary African American ...
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A Centenary Celebration In Honor Of Harlem Poet Langston Hughes
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All About Jazz
PERFORMING ARTS SERIES PRESENTS A CENTENARY CELEBRATION IN HONOR OF HARLEM POET LANGSTON HUGHES
The late poet Langston Hughes--whose incredible work helped shape the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s--embraced the world of jazz and gave powerful voice to the struggle for freedom during much of the 20th century. In honor of his 100th year, the University of Nevada, Reno's Performing Arts Series presents A Centenary Celebration: The Langston Hughes Project with the McCurdy Wright Consort," a tribute to Hughes's creative ...
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