"The Langston Hughes Songbook" on Night Lights

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This week's Night Lights show, The Langston Hughes Songbook, is up for online listening.  It features music for which Hughes wrote the words by Nina Simone, James P. Johnson, Josh White, Randy Weston, June Christy, Gary Bartz, Sweet Honey in the Rock, and more:

The Langston Hughes Songbook

Edited February 1, 2021 by ghost of miles

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Riverwalk Jazz has a nice take on Hughes' poetry and jazz up this week, featuring readings of Hughes' poems by singer and actor William Warfield:

Jazz and the Poetry of Langston Hughes

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Upping this today in honor of Hughes’ birth anniversary (February 1, 1902) and the beginning of Black History Month:

Hughes’ Blues: The Langston Hughes Songbook

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I stumbled across Big Miller and a whole album of songs by Langston Hughes.  Was pretty interesting: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112757312