Charles Mingus - Weary Blues
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CD Details
Artist: Charles MingusEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-07-01
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
- Blues Montage
- Opening Blues
- Blues Montage
- Commercial Theater
- Morning After
- Could Be
- Testament
- Consider Me - Charles Mingus
- Stranger
- Midnight Stroll
- Backstage - Charles Mingus
- Dream Montage
- Weird Nightmare
- Double G. Train
- Jump Monk
Music reviews of Weary Blues
Music Review: Pickin' A Nit
Rating: 4 Stars
Sure woulda liked it if the CD was split up into tracks, instead of one long track. Sure is annoying to have to listen to the whole thing in one sitting or not at all. Also, Leonard Feather has always been a bit square- and he does half the music. The MINGUS half is MINGalicious! Otherwise- please refer to the other more helpful reviewers re:actual content of CD.
Description of Weary Blues
Weary Blues is, above all, sexy--Harlem jazz meets the Southern blues of Bessie Smith and smoky rooms, speakeasies, and pleasantly dirty thoughts. Langston Hughes is not only one of the century's finest American poets; he was the voice of black America in a time when opportunity was limited but hunger and drive were boundless. It is from his poem "Dream Montage" (included in this collection) that the superb Lorraine Hansberry play chose its title: "What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up, like a raisin in the sun?" In his throaty, mellifluous voice, Hughes reads his words of black beauty, freedom, desire, and celebration even in times of hardship and abuse. Leonard Feather sets the first half of the disc to traditional blues and gospel bar patterns. On the remaining poems, Charles Mingus and band organically improvise a big, jazzy sound that punctuates Hughes's words. --Paige La GroneGeneral CDs
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