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The Weary Blues Poetry & Jazz Concert with Quraysh Ali Lansana

  • The Oak Cliff Assembly 919 Morrell Avenue Dallas, TX (map)

The Weary Blues is an album by the American poet Langston Hughes, who recites several of his poems accompanied by jazz music composed and arranged by Leonard Feather and Charles Mingus. The album was recorded on March 17&18, 1958, in New York and was released on the MGM label in 1959. It was later reissued on Verve Records.

Live show performed by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Dallas’ own jazz musicians led by Joyce Spencer.

Thaddeus Ford (trumpet) | Rebecca Cordes (keys) | Ann MacMillan (drums) | Paul Nunn (bass) | Joyce Hsu (trombone) | Joyce Spencer (saxophone)

Organized by Taylor Entertainment Group.

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