| Description |
4 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Note |
Jazz and blues. |
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"Compilation produced by Shawn Amos"--Container. |
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Musical works originally issued on 78 rpm discs. |
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Compact discs; in container (26 cm.). |
| Bibliography |
Program notes by Shawn Amos, Patrick Kraus, Gerald Early, Richard Powell, Allen Lowe, and Paul Oliver, words of the readings, and bibliography (98 pages : ill.) included. |
| Contents |
Struttin' & stridin'. The Negro speaks of rivers ; Cotton Club stomp ; The Harlem strut ; Brother Low Down ; Letter from Aaron Douglas to Langston Hughes ; There'll be some changes made ; Sounds of Africa ; Sweet man o' mine ; The weary blues ; Blues ain't nothin else but! ; Kansas City man blues ; Indianola ; Hard hearted Hannah ; Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem ; St. Louis blues ; Copenhagen ; Cake walking babies from home ; Long gone ; Railroad blues -- Testifyin' & philosophyin'. Smoke, lillies and jade! ; (Lookie lookie lookie) Here comes Cookie ; Charleston ; Chili pepper ; Lucy Long ; Chain gang blues ; Mother to son ; Deep river ; East St. Louis toodle-o ; Lazy drag ; How it feels to be colored me ; Sengalese stomp ; After you've gone ; Dead drunk blues ; No images ; Woke up with the blues in my fingers ; Worried blues ; Humpty Dumpty ; Ham and eggs ; Sugar -- Preachin' & prayin'. If we must die ; Honey, I'm all out and down ; My handy man ; Ain't misbehavin' ; A handfull of riffs ; Bright boy blues ; The debt ; Harlem fuss ; Nobody knows you when you're down and out ; Fare thee honey blues ; Soon ; Smashing thirds ; Do shuffle ; Wherever there's a will, baby ; Dee blues ; Odyssey of Big Boy ; Minnie the moocher (The hi de ho song) ; Panama ; Royal garden blues ; America ; Jesus gonna make up my dying bed -- Lustin' for love & life. I want to die while you love me ; Stormy weather (Keeps rainin' all the time) ; Corrine Corrina ; Sweetie dear ; The damnation of women ; Baby ; Happy as the day is long ; I got rhythm ; Let's get together ; Their eyes were watching God ; Lady be good ; Symphony in riffs ; Sendin' the vipers ; Down South camp meetin' ; The day breakers ; She'll be coming 'round the mountain ; Minor mania ; Sensemayá : chant for killing a snake ; Symphony in black ; Echoes of spring ; Lookie, lookie, lookie, here comes Cookie ; The Negro artist and the racial mountain ; It never dawned on me ; Honey dripper blues ; I'm in the mood for love. |
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Lucy Long (Perry Bradford's Jazz Phools) ; Chain gang blues (Ma Rainey) ; Mother to son / Langston Hughes (read by Sylvia Rhone) ; Deep river (Paul Robeson) ; East St. Louis toodle-o (Duke Ellington & His Kentucky Club Orchestra) ; Lazy drag (Thomas Morris & His Seven Hot Babies) ; How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston (read by Debbie Allen) ; Sengalese stomp (Savoy Bearcats) ; After you've gone (Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra) ; Dead drunk blues (Margaret Johnson) ; No images / Waring Cuney (read by Lou Rawls) ; Woke up with the blues in my fingers (Lonnie Johnson) ; Worried blues (Gladys Bentley) ; Humpty Dumpty (Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra) ; Ham and eggs (Johnny Dunn & His Band) ; Sugar (Alberta Hunter) -- Disc 3. If we must die / Claude McKay (read by ICE-T) ; Honey, I'm all out and down (Leadbelly) ; My handy man (Victoria Spivey) ; Ain't misbehavin' (Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra) ; A hadfull of riffs (Lonnie Johnson, Blind Willie Dunn) ; Bright boy blues (Cecil Scott & His Orchestra) ; The debt / Paul Laurence Dunbar (read by Joshua Redman) ; Harlem fuss (Fats Waller & His Buddies) ; Nobody knows you when you're down and out (Bessie Smith) ; Fare thee honey blues (Jimmy Johnson & His |
| Performer |
Various performers. |
| Event |
Recorded 1918-1935 (music) and 1999-2000 (readings). |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Jazz -- 1921-1930.
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Jazz -- 1931-1940.
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Blues (Music) -- To 1931.
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Blues (Music) -- 1931-1940.
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African Americans -- Music.
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American literature -- African American authors.
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Harlem Renaissance.
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Jazz -- 1921-1930 -- Sound recordings.
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Jazz -- 1931-1940 -- Sound recordings.
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Compact discs -- Sound recordings.
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Jazz -- 1911-1920 -- Sound recordings.
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| Added Title |
Music and words from the Harlem Renaissance |
| ISBN |
0737901497 |
| Standard No. |
081227987428 |
| Music No. |
R2 79874 Rhino |
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