Search results for "Langston Hughes"

Charles Mingus & Langston Hughes: Consider Me (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music May 16, 08

"Jazz gives poetry a much wider following," said Langston Hughes in 1958, "and poetry brings jazz the greater respect...

Hip Hop is to Jazz as Termitz R2 Wud posted in The Jazz.com Blog September 02, 08

A few days ago, jazz.com’s Jared Pauley championed the fraternization of jazz and hip-hop in this space (see ...

Afro-Cuba Meets Appalachia posted in The Jazz.com Blog May 05, 09

Tim Wilkins edits the Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians at jazz.com, and regularly contributes reviews in this column. ...

Wilson, Flossie (Beatrice Dow) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Wilson, Flossie (Beatrice Dow), singer, educator, lyricist, composer; b. Buffalo, NY, 14 October 1941. She was the el...

Bowen, Jose (Antonio) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Bowen, Jose (Antonio), pianist, composer, educator; b. Woodland, CA, 11 March 1962.  The youngest of two, (Juan ...

Cowell, Stanley (Allen) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Cowell, Stanley (Allen), pianist, composer, educator; b. Toledo, Ohio, 5 May 1941. His mother was born Willie Haz...

Monroe, Nancy (Nancy Tina Kaplan) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Monroe, Nancy  [Nancy Tina Kaplan], vocalist, educator; b. Verona, NJ, 15 April 1950. She has two sisters, Joan,...

Pine Top Smith: Pine Top's Boogie Woogie (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 22, 07

Mystery hangs like a dusty, fraying shroud upon pianist Clarence Smith. (As Dashiell Hammett observed, the cheaper th...

Johnson, James P. (James Price) posted in Encyclopedia January 27, 08

James P. Johnson was one of the originators of jazz piano. Experimenting in Harlem in the teens and twenties, he expa...

Weekend Track Review Roundup posted in The Jazz.com Blog May 29, 08

As regular visitors to this site know, jazz.com takes a different approach to reviewing music. Our team of more t...

Billy Harper (featuring Amiri Baraka): Africa Revisited (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music November 15, 08

If I didn't know better, I'd think Amiri Baraka is mellowing in his old age. Now 74, the remorseless radical was last...

Weston, Randy (Randolph Edward) posted in Encyclopedia December 18, 08

Pianist Randy Weston has followed his ears from Brooklyn and bebop to Africa, and he has increasingly drawn inspirati...

Thornton, Clifford posted in Encyclopedia June 18, 09

Cornetist and valve trombonist Clifford Thornton made an often-overlooked mark on free jazz in the 1960s with a seri...

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