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Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance

Release date 2000

Tracklist

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

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

2:51

17

Cake Walkin’ Babies From Home

2:59

18

Long Gone (poem by Sterling Brown)

0:58

19

2:59

20

Smoke, Lillies and Jade (short story by Richard Bruce Nugent) (excerpt)

1:54

21

(Lookie Lookie Lookie) Here Comes Cookie

2:51

22

2:41

23

2:47

24

2:51

25

Chain Gang Blues

3:06

26

Mother to Son (poem by Langston Hughes)

0:37

27

2:21

28

East St. Louis Toodle-O

3:40

29

2:59

30

How It Feels to Be Colored Me (essay by Zora Neale Hurston) (excerpt)

2:59

31

Sengalese Stomp

2:58

32

After You've Gone

3:04

33

Dead Drunk Blues

3:10

34

No Images (poem by Waring Cuney)

0:18

35

Woke Up With the Blues in My Fingers

3:10

36

2:44

37

3:02

38

3:01

39

3:19

40

If We Must Die (poem by Claude McKay)

0:50

41

Honey I'm All Out and Down

3:13

42

3:02

43

Ain't Misbehavin'

3:21

44

A Handful of Riffs

3:06

45

Bright Boy Blues

3:08

46

The Debt (poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar)

0:28

47

3:21

48

Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out

2:57

49

Fare Thee Honey Blues

3:21

50

Soon (poem by Leon Damas)

0:30

51

Smashing Thirds

3:07

52

2:54

53

Wherever There's a Will There's a Way (My Baby)

2:58

54

2:56

55

Odyssey of Big Boy (poem by Sterling Brown)

2:42

56

Minnie the Moocher (The Ho De Ho Song)

3:09

57

3:18

58

Royal Garden Blues

3:02

59

America (poem by Claude McKay)

0:52

60

Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed

3:02

61

I Want to Die While You Love Me (poem by Georgia Douglas Johnson)

0:49

62

Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)

3:11

63

Corrine Corrina

3:03

64

2:51

65

The Damnation of Women (essay by W.E.B. Dubois) (excerpt)

2:26

66

3:09

67

Happy as the Day Is Long

2:24

68

2:44

69

Let’s Get Together

3:05

70

Their Eyes Were Watching God (novel by Zora Neale Hurston) (excerpt)

1:45

71

3:25

72

Symphony in Riffs

3:04

73

Sendin' The Vipers

2:57

74

Down South Camp Meeting

3:01

75

The Day Breakers (poem by Arna Bontemps)

0:16

76

She'll Be Coming 'round the Mountain

2:44

77

2:55

78

Sensemayá: Chant for Killing a Snake (poem by Nicolas Guillen)

1:20

79

Symphony in Black

9:28

80

Echoes of Spring

2:32

81

Lookie, Lookie, Lookie Here Comes Cookie

3:03

82

The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (essay by Langston Hughes)

1:48

83

It Never Dawned On Me

3:10

84

Honey Dripper Blues

3:08

85

I’m in the Mood for Love

3:09

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