Green Lake Public Library (Caestecker)

Rhapsodies in black, music and words from the Harlem Renaissance

eng

Credits, essays by various authors, words of the readings, and select bibliography (p. 97) in accompanying book, inserted in container

jazz

not applicable

Rhapsodies in black

compact disc

45441367

Recorded 1918-34 (music) and 1999-2000 (readings)

music and words from the Harlem Renaissance

The negro speaks of river / poem by Langston Hughes (Quincy Jones) -- Cotton club stomp (Duke Ellington) -- The Harlem strut (James P. Johnson) -- Brother low down (Bert Williams) -- Letter from Aaron Douglas to Langston Hughes (Wally "Famous" Amos) -- There'll be some changes made (Ethel Waters) -- Sounds of Africa (Eubie Blake) -- Mamie Smith (Sweet man o' mine) -- The weary blues / poem by Langston Hughes (Branford Marsalis) -- Blues ain't nothing else but! (Ida Cox) -- Kansas City man blues (Clarence Williams' Blue Five) -- Indianola (Wilbur C. Sweatman's original jazz band) -- Hard hearted Hannah (Rosa Henderson) -- Sonnet to a negro in Harlem / poem by Helene Johnson (Angela Bassett) -- St. Louis blues / Bessie Smith -- Copenhagen (Fletcher Henderson) -- Cake walking babies from home (Clarence Williams' blue five) -- Long gone / poem by Sterling Brown (Darius Rucker) -- Railroad blues (Trixie Smith)Smoke, lillies, and jade! / excerpt from a short story by Richard Bruce Nugent (Carl Hancock Rux) -- (Lookie lookie lookie) Here comes Cookie (Cleo Brown) -- Charleston (Paul Whiteman) -- Chili pepper (Fred Longshaw) -- Lucy Long (Perry Bradford's Jazz Phools) -- Chain gang blues (Ma Rainey) -- Mother to son / poem by Langston Hughes (Sylvia Rhone) -- Deep river (Paul Robeson) -- East St. Louis Toodle-o (Duke Ellington) -- Lazy drag (Thomas Mann) -- How it feels to be colored me / excerpt from an essay by Zora Neale Hurston (Debbie Allen) -- Sengalese stomp (Savoy Bearcats) -- After you've gone (Paul Whiteman) -- Dead drunk blues (Margaret Johnson) -- No images / poem by Waring Cuney (Lou Rawls) -- Woke up with the blues in my fingers (Lonnie Johnson) -- Worried blues (Gladys Bentley) -- Humpty Dumpty (Frankie Trumbauer) -- Ham and eggs (Johnny Dunn) -- Sugar (Alberta Hunter)If we must die / poem by Claude McKay (Ice-T) -- Honey, I'm all out and down (Leadbelly) -- My handy man (Victoria Spivey) -- Ain't misbehavin' (Louis Armstrong) -- A handfull of riffs (Lonnie Johnson & Blind Willie dunn) -- Bright boy blues (Cecil Scott) -- The debt / poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar (Joshua Redman) -- Harlem fuss (Fats Waller) -- Nobody knows you when you're down and out (Bessie Smith) -- Fare thee honey blues (Jimmy Johnson) -- Soon / poem by Leon Damas (Gregory Hines -- Smashing thirds (Fats Waller) -- Do shuffle (Fess Williams) -- Wherever there's a will, baby (McKinney's Cotton Pickers) -- Dee blues (Chocolate Dandies) -- Odyssey of big boy / poem by Sterling Brown (Chuck D) -- Minnie the Moocher (the ho de ho song) (Cab Calloway) -- Panama (Luis Russell) -- Royal garden blues (Ted Lewis) -- America / poem by Claude McKay (August Wilson) -- Jesus gonna make up my dying bed (Josh White)I want to die while you love me / poem by Georgia Douglas Johnson (Alfre Woodard) -- Stormy weather (keeps rainin' all the time) (Ethel Waters) -- Corrine Corrina (Cab Calloway) -- Sweetie dear (Sidney Bechet) -- The damnation of women / excerpt from an essay by W.E.B. DuBois (LeVar Burton) -- Baby (Adelaide Hall with Duke Ellington) -- Happy as the day is long (Leo Reisman & Harold Arlen) -- I got rhythm (The 5 Spirits of Rhythm) -- Let's get together (Chick Webb) -- Their eyes were watching God / excerpt from a book by Zora Neale Hurston (Veronica Chambers) -- Lady be good (Buck & Bubbles) -- Symphony in riffs (Benny Carter) -- Sendin' the vipers (Mezz Mezzrow) -- Down south camp meetin' (Fletcher Henderson) -- The day breakers / poem by Arna Bontemps (Coolio) -- She'll be coming 'round the mountain (Tiny Bradshaw) -- Minor mania (Claude Hopkins) -- Sensemaya, chant for killing a snake / poem by Nicolas Guillen (Eartha Kitt) --Symphony in black (Duke Ellington) -- Echoes of spring (Willie "The Lion" Smith) -- Lookie, lookie, lookie here comes cookie (Teddy Hill) -- The negro artist and the racial mountain / essay by Langston Hughes (George Duke) -- It never dawned on me (Teddy Wilson) -- Honey dripper blues (Georgia White) -- I'm in the mood for love (Louis Armstrong)

Music and words from the Harlem Renaissance