Object Details
Performer
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
Collection Creator
Asch, Moses
Distler, Marian, 1919-1964
Folkways Records
Collection Citation
Moses and Frances Asch Collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
Contents
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).
sova.cfch.asch_ref17940
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.
Topic
Jazz
African Americans
Performer
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
Culture
Americans
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Extent
1 Phonograph record (analog, 33 1/3 rpm, 12 in.)
Date
1958
Archival Repository
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
Identifier
CFCH.ASCH, Item FW-ASCH-LP-3849
Type
Archival materials
Phonograph records
Collection Rights
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Restrictions
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
CFCH.ASCH_ref17940
Large EAD
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CFCH.ASCH
CFCHFOLKLIFE
Record ID
ebl-1649170801566-1649171785905-1