Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper

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Release Date: 27th Jan 2017
Catalogue No: MOD-CD-A17
Label: Mode
Length: 34 minutes

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Amram: Weary Blues

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Eric Mingus (vocals)
The Langston Hughes Project
Recorded: April 2012

Amram: The Dream Keeper

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Eric Mingus (vocals)
The Langston Hughes Project
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Amram: Neighbor

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Eric Mingus (vocals)
The Langston Hughes Project
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Amram: Daybreak in Alabama

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Eric Mingus (vocals)
The Langston Hughes Project
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Amram: Sylvester's Dying Bed

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Eric Mingus (vocals)
The Langston Hughes Project
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Amram: Border Line

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Eric Mingus (vocals)
The Langston Hughes Project
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Amram: Reverie on the Harlem River

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Eric Mingus (vocals)
The Langston Hughes Project
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Amram: In Time of Silver Rain

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Eric Mingus (vocals)
The Langston Hughes Project
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Amram: Bound No'th Blues

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Eric Mingus (vocals)
The Langston Hughes Project
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Amram: Democracy

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Eric Mingus (vocals)
The Langston Hughes Project
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Amram: Ma Lord

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Eric Mingus (vocals)
The Langston Hughes Project
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Amram: Railroad Avenue

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Eric Mingus (vocals)
The Langston Hughes Project
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Amram: Life is Fine

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Eric Mingus (vocals)
The Langston Hughes Project
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Langston Hughes (1902–67) was an American poet, novelist, social activist and playwright whose work showcased the dignity and beauty in ordinary black life. His African-American themes made him a primary contributor to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. The hours he spent in Harlem clubs affected his work, making him one of the innovators of “Jazz Poetry.” Hughes’ poetry is still powerful and contemporary today. The Langston Hughes Project came from jazz guitarist Larry Simon, who is the founder of JazzMouth, unique festival in Portsmouth, New Hampshire that combines jazz and spontaneous music with readings by some of the finest poets. Hughes’ texts are brought to life by the rich, soulful delivery of Eric Mingus, son of Charles Mingus. For some years he worked as a session musician and backing singer, playing on dates with artists such as Carla Bley, Bobby McFerrin and Karen Mantler. He has also performed with the Mingus Big Band, Elliott Sharp’s Terraplane, Todd Rundgren, Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, Catherine Sikora and Levon Helm, and a featured performer in many of Hal Willner’s projects. Simon also brought David Amram — composer, conductor, multi-instrumentalist, and author — to the project. As a classical composer and performer, his integration of jazz, folk and world music led him to work with Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Willie Nelson, Charles Mingus, Levon Helm and Betty Carter. Amram has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber music works, and written many scores for Broadway theater and film, including the classic scores for the films Splendor in The Grass and The Manchurian Candidate. Amram collaborated with Hughes on the cantata "Let us Remember." Importantly, in the 1950s Amram collaborated in clubs with Langston Hughes and Jack Kerouac on the spontaneous creation of words and music which came to be known as “jazz/poetry.” And jazz/poetry is what “Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper” is. Half of the poems find Mingus with Amram on piano, as a duo. The instrumentally varied balance of the album are Mingus duos with electric guitar or Hammond organ; with woodwinds and percussion or larger ensembles.

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