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Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance Various Artists

Release: 2000 United States, Language: English, Status: Official
Format: CD + CD + CD + CD, Tracks: 85, Length: 3:46:50, Barcode: 081227987428
Release type: Album - Compilation

Contents

CD #1
1 The Negro Speaks of Rivers (poem by Langston Hughes) 0:45
2 Cotton Club Stomp 2:18
3 The Harlem Strut 2:33
4 Brother Low Down 2:51
5 Letter From Aaron Douglas to Langston Hughes (excerpt) 0:52
6 There'll Be Some Changes Made 3:21
7 Sounds of Africa 3:11
8 Sweet Man o' Mine 3:15
9 The Weary Blues (poem by Langstron Hughes) 1:27
10 Blues Ain't Nothin Else But! 3:10
11 Kansas City Man Blues 2:55
12 Indianola 2:39
13 Hard Hearted Hannah 2:59
14 Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem (poem by Helene Johnson) 0:51
15 St. Louis Blues 3:13
16 Copenhagen 2:51
17 Cake Walking Babies From Home 2:59
18 Long Gone (poem by Sterling Brown) 0:58
19 Railroad Blues 2:59
CD #2
1 Smoke, Lillies and Jade (short story by Richard Bruce Nugent) (excerpt) 1:54
2 (Lookie Lookie Lookie) Here Comes Cookie 2:51
3 Charleston 2:41
4 Chili Pepper 2:47
5 Lucy Long 2:51
6 Chain Gang Blues 3:06
7 Mother to Son (poem by Langston Hughes) 0:37
8 Deep River 2:21
9 East St. Louis Toodle-O 3:40
10 Lazy Drag 2:59
11 How It Feels to Be Colored Me (essay by Zora Neale Hurston) (excerpt) 2:59
12 Sengalese Stomp 2:58
13 After You've Gone 3:04
14 Dead Drunk Blues 3:10
15 No Images (poem by Waring Cuney) 0:18
16 Woke Up With the Blues in My Fingers 3:10
17 Worried Blues 2:44
18 Humpty Dumpty 3:02
19 Ham and Eggs 3:01
20 Sugar 3:19
CD #3
1 If We Must Die (poem by Claude McKay) 0:50
2 Honey, I'm All Out and Down 3:13
3 My Handy Man 3:02
4 Ain't Misbehavin' 3:21
5 A Handfull of Riffs 3:06
6 Bright Boy Blues 3:08
7 The Debt (poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar) 0:28
8 Harlem Fuss 3:21
9 Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out 2:57
10 Fare Thee Honey Blues 3:21
11 Soon (poem by Leon Damas) 0:30
12 Smashing Thirds 3:07
13 Do Shuffle 2:54
14 Wherever There's a Will, Baby 2:58
15 Dee Blues 2:56
16 Odyssey of Big Boy (poem by Sterling Brown) 2:42
17 Minnie the Moocher (The Ho De Ho Song) 3:09
18 Panama 3:18
19 Royal Garden Blues 3:02
20 America (poem by Claude McKay) 0:52
21 Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed 3:02
CD #4
1 I Want to Die While You Love Me (poem by Georgia Douglas Johnson) 0:49
2 Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time) 3:11
3 Corrine Corrina 3:03
4 Sweetie Dear 2:51
5 The Damnation of Women (essay by W.E.B. Dubois) (excerpt) 2:26
6 Baby 3:09
7 Happy as the Day Is Long 2:24
8 I Got Rhythm 2:44
9 Let's Get Together 3:05
10 Their Eyes Were Watching God (novel by Zora Neale Hurston) (excerpt) 1:45
11 Lady, Be Good 3:25
12 Symphony in Riffs 3:04
13 Sendin' the Vipers 2:57
14 Down South Camp Meeting 3:01
15 The Day Breakers (poem by Arna Bontemps) 0:16
16 She'll Be Coming 'round the Mountain 2:44
17 Minor Mania 2:55
18 Sensemayá: Chant for Killing a Snake (poem by Nicolas Guillen) 1:20
19 Symphony in Black 9:28
20 Echoes of Spring 2:32
21 Lookie, Lookie, Lookie Here Comes Cookie 3:03
22 The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (essay by Langston Hughes) 1:48
23 It Never Dawned On Me 3:10
24 Honey Dripper Blues 3:08
25 I'm in the Mood for Love 3:09

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