Rhapsodies in Black, Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance

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Tracklist

# Title Artist Rating Length
  CD 1: Struttin' & Stridin'
11 The Negro Speaks of Rivers (Poem by Langston Hughes)
Quincy Jones 0:46
22 Cotton Club Stomp Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra 2:19
33 The Harlem Strut James P. Johnson 2:33
44 Brother Low Down Bert Williams 2:52
55 Letter From Aaron Douglas to Langston Hughes (excerpt)
Wally Amos 0:52
66 There'll Be Some Changes Made Ethel Waters’ Jazz Masters 3:22
77 Sounds of Africa Eubie Blake 3:11
88 Sweet Man O' Mine Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Band 3:16
99 The Weary Blues (Poem by Langstron Hughes)
Branford Marsalis 1:27
1010 Blues Ain't Nothin Else But!
Ida Cox 3:10
1111 Kansas City Man Blues Clarence Williams' Blue Five 2:56
1212 Indianola Wilbur Sweatman's Jazz Orchestra 2:39
1313 Hard Hearted Hannah Rosa Henderson 2:59
1414 Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem (Poem by Helene Johnson)
Angela Basset 0:51
1515 St. Louis Blues Bessie Smith 3:14
1616 Copenhagen Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra 2:51
1717 Cake Walking Babies From Home Clarence Williams' Blue Five 3:00
1818 Long Gone (Poem by Sterling Brown)
Darius Rucker 0:58
1919 Railroad Blues Trixie Smith 2:59
  CD 2: Testifyin' & Philosophyin'
11 Smoke, Lillies and Jade (short Story by Richard Bruce Nugent) (excerpt) Carl Hancock Rux 1:54
22 (Lookie Lookie Lookie) Here Comes Cookie Cleo Brown 2:51
33 Charleston Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra 2:42
44 Chili Pepper Fred Longshaw 2:47
55 Lucy Long Perry Bradford's Jazz Phools 2:51
66 Chain Gang Blues Ma Rainey 3:06
77 Mother to Son (Poem by Langston Hughes)
Sylvia Rhone 0:37
88 Deep River Paul Robeson 2:21
99 East St. Louis Toodle-O Duke Ellington and His Kentucky Club Orchestra 3:40
1010 Lazy Drag Thomas Morris and His Seven Hot Babies 2:59
1111 How It Feels to Be Colored Me (Essay by Zora Neale Hurston) (excerpt)
Debbie Allen 3:00
1212 Sengalese Stomp Savoy Bearcats 2:58
1313 After You've Gone Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra 3:05
1414 Dead Drunk Blues Margaret Johnson 3:10
1515 No Images (Poem by Waring Cuney)
Lou Rawls 0:19
1616 Woke Up With the Blues in My Fingers Lonnie Johnson 3:10
1717 Worried Blues Gladys Bentley 2:45
1818 Humpty Dumpty Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra 3:02
1919 Ham and Eggs Johnny Dunn and His Band 3:01
2020 Sugar Alberta Hunter 3:19
  CD 3: Preachin' & Prayin'
11 If We Must Die (Poem by Claude McKay) Ice‐T 0:51
22 Honey, I'm All Out and Down Lead Belly 3:13
33 My Handy Man
Victoria Spivey 3:03
44 Ain't Misbehavin' Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra 3:22
55 A Handfull of Riffs Blind Willie Dunn & Lonnie Johnson 3:06
66 Bright Boy Blues Cecil Scott and His Bright Boys 3:08
77 The Debt (Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Joshua Redman 0:28
88 Harlem Fuss Fats Waller and His Buddies 3:22
99 Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out Bessie Smith 2:58
1010 Fare Thee Honey Blues Jimmy Johnson and His Band 3:21
1111 Soon (Poem by Leon Damas)
Gregory Hines 0:30
1212 Smashing Thirds Fats Waller 3:08
1313 Do Shuffle Fess Williams and His Royal Flush Orchestra 2:55
1414 Wherever There's a Will, Baby McKinney's Cotton Pickers 2:58
1515 Dee Blues The Chocolate Dandies 2:57
1616 Odyssey of Big Boy (Poem by Sterling Brown) Chuck D 2:42
1717 Minnie the Moocher (The Ho De Ho Song) Cab Calloway and His Orchestra 3:09
1818 Panama Luis Russell and His Orchestra 3:19
1919 Royal Garden Blues Ted Lewis and His Orchestra 3:02
2020 America (Poem by Claude McKay)
August Wilson 0:52
2121 Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed Josh White 3:02
  CD 4: Lustin' for Love & Life
11 I Want to Die While You Love Me (Poem by Georgia Douglas Johnson) Alfre Woodard 0:49
22 Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)
Ethel Waters 3:11
33 Corrine Corrina Cab Calloway and His Orchestra 3:03
44 Sweetie Dear Sidney Bechet and His New Orleans Feetwarmers 2:51
55 The Damnation of Women (Essay by W.E.B. Dubois) (excerpt) LeVar Burton 2:26
66 Baby
Adelaide Hall with Duke Ellington & His Orchestra 3:09
77 Happy as the Day Is Long Leo Reisman & His Orchestra 2:24
88 I Got Rhythm The 5 Spirits of Rhythm 2:44
99 Let's Get Together Chick Webb's Savoy Orchestra 3:05
1010 Their Eyes Were Watching God (Novel by Zora Neale Hurston) (excerpt) Veronica Chambers 1:45
1111 Lady, Be Good Buck and Bubbles 3:25
1212 Symphony in Riffs Benny Carter and His Orchestra 3:04
1313 Sendin' the Vipers Mezz Mezzrow and His Orchestra 2:57
1414 Down South Camp Meeting Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra 3:01
1515 The Day Breakers (Poem by Arna Bontemps) Coolio 0:16
1616 She'll Be Coming 'round the Mountain Tiny Bradshaw and His Orchestra 2:44
1717 Minor Mania Claude Hopkins and His Orchestra 2:55
1818 Sensemayá: Chant for Killing a Snake (Poem by Nicolas Guillen) Eartha Kitt 1:20
1919 Symphony in Black
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra 9:28
2020 Echoes of Spring Willie "The Lion" Smith and His Cubs 2:32
2121 Lookie, Lookie, Lookie Here Comes Cookie Teddy Hill and His Orchestra 3:03
2222 The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (Essay by Langston Hughes) George Duke 1:48
2323 It Never Dawned on Me Teddy Wilson 3:10
2424 Honey Dripper Blues Georgia White 3:08
2525 I'm in the Mood for Love Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra 3:09

Relationships

composer:
Harold Arlen (1933) (track 4.2)
lyricist:
Ted Koehler (1933) (track 4.2)
orchestra:
Lovie Austin & Her Blue Serenaders (track 1.10)
Clarence Williams' Blue Five (track 3.3)
recorded by:
Shawn Amos (tracks 1.1, 1.5, 1.9, 3.7, 3.11, 3.20)
Shawn Amos (1999-08-12) (track 2.7)
Shawn Amos (1999-09-09) (track 1.18)
Shawn Amos (1999-11-16) (track 2.11)
Shawn Amos (1999-12-17) (track 1.14)
Shawn Amos (2000-02-02) (track 2.15)
vocals:
Ida Cox (track 1.10)
Adelaide Hall (track 4.6)
Billie Holiday (track 4.19)
Victoria Spivey (track 3.3)
ASIN:
US: B00004ZDZC [info] [ Remove | Edit ]
recording of:
Stormy Weather (track 4.2)