Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance

Album by Various Artists

JazzBluesSwingPoetryBig Band

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    The Negro Speaks of Rivers (poem by Langston Hughes)
    0:45
  2. 2.
    Cotton Club Stomp
    2:18
  3. 3.
    The Harlem Strut
    2:33
  4. 4.
    Brother Low Down
    2:51
  5. 5.
    Letter From Aaron Douglas to Langston Hughes (excerpt)
    0:52
  6. 6.
    There'll Be Some Changes Made
    3:21
  7. 7.
    Sounds of Africa
    3:11
  8. 8.
    Sweet Man o' Mine
    3:15
  9. 9.
    The Weary Blues (poem by Langstron Hughes)
    1:27
  10. 10.
    Blues Ain't Nothin Else But!
    3:10
  11. 11.
    Kansas City Man Blues
    2:55
  12. 12.
    Indianola
    2:39
  13. 13.
    Hard Hearted Hannah
    2:59
  14. 14.
    Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem (poem by Helene Johnson)
    0:51
  15. 15.
    St. Louis Blues
    3:13
  16. 16.
    Copenhagen
    2:51
  17. 17.
    Cake Walking Babies From Home
    2:59
  18. 18.
    Long Gone (poem by Sterling Brown)
    0:58
  19. 19.
    Railroad Blues
    2:59

Disc 2

  1. 1.
    Smoke, Lillies and Jade (short story by Richard Bruce Nugent) (excerpt)
    1:54
  2. 2.
    (Lookie Lookie Lookie) Here Comes Cookie
    2:51
  3. 3.
    Charleston
    2:41
  4. 4.
    Chili Pepper
    2:47
  5. 5.
    Lucy Long
    2:51
  6. 6.
    Chain Gang Blues
    3:06
  7. 7.
    Mother to Son (poem by Langston Hughes)
    0:37
  8. 8.
    Deep River
    2:21
  9. 9.
    East St. Louis Toodle-O
    3:40
  10. 10.
    Lazy Drag
    2:59
  11. 11.
    How It Feels to Be Colored Me (essay by Zora Neale Hurston) (excerpt)
    2:59
  12. 12.
    Sengalese Stomp
    2:58
  13. 13.
    After You've Gone
    3:04
  14. 14.
    Dead Drunk Blues
    3:10
  15. 15.
    No Images (poem by Waring Cuney)
    0:18
  16. 16.
    Woke Up With the Blues in My Fingers
    3:10
  17. 17.
    Worried Blues
    2:44
  18. 18.
    Humpty Dumpty
    3:02
  19. 19.
    Ham and Eggs
    3:01
  20. 20.
    Sugar
    3:19

Disc 3

  1. 1.
    If We Must Die (poem by Claude McKay)
    0:50
  2. 2.
    Honey, I'm All Out and Down
    3:13
  3. 3.
    My Handy Man
    3:02
  4. 4.
    Ain't Misbehavin'
    3:21
  5. 5.
    A Handfull of Riffs
    3:06
  6. 6.
    Bright Boy Blues
    3:08
  7. 7.
    The Debt (poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar)
    0:28
  8. 8.
    Harlem Fuss
    3:21
  9. 9.
    Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
    2:57
  10. 10.
    Fare Thee Honey Blues
    3:21
  11. 11.
    Soon (poem by Leon Damas)
    0:30
  12. 12.
    Smashing Thirds
    3:07
  13. 13.
    Do Shuffle
    2:54
  14. 14.
    Wherever There's a Will, Baby
    2:58
  15. 15.
    Dee Blues
    2:56
  16. 16.
    Odyssey of Big Boy (poem by Sterling Brown)
    2:42
  17. 17.
    Minnie the Moocher (The Ho De Ho Song)
    3:09
  18. 18.
    Panama
    3:18
  19. 19.
    Royal Garden Blues
    3:02
  20. 20.
    America (poem by Claude McKay)
    0:52
  21. 21.
    Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed
    3:02

Disc 4

  1. 1.
    I Want to Die While You Love Me (poem by Georgia Douglas Johnson)
    0:49
  2. 2.
    Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)
    3:11
  3. 3.
    Corrine Corrina
    3:03
  4. 4.
    Sweetie Dear
    2:51
  5. 5.
    The Damnation of Women (essay by W.E.B. Dubois) (excerpt)
    2:26
  6. 6.
    Baby
    3:09
  7. 7.
    Happy as the Day Is Long
    2:24
  8. 8.
    I Got Rhythm
    2:44
  9. 9.
    Let's Get Together
    3:05
  10. 10.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God (novel by Zora Neale Hurston) (excerpt)
    1:45
  11. 11.
    Lady, Be Good
    3:25
  12. 12.
    Symphony in Riffs
    3:04
  13. 13.
    Sendin' the Vipers
    2:57
  14. 14.
    Down South Camp Meeting
    3:01
  15. 15.
    The Day Breakers (poem by Arna Bontemps)
    0:16
  16. 16.
    She'll Be Coming 'round the Mountain
    2:44
  17. 17.
    Minor Mania
    2:55
  18. 18.
    Sensemayá: Chant for Killing a Snake (poem by Nicolas Guillen)
    1:20
  19. 19.
    Symphony in Black
    9:28
  20. 20.
    Echoes of Spring
    2:32
  21. 21.
    Lookie, Lookie, Lookie Here Comes Cookie
    3:03
  22. 22.
    The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (essay by Langston Hughes)
    1:48
  23. 23.
    It Never Dawned On Me
    3:10
  24. 24.
    Honey Dripper Blues
    3:08
  25. 25.
    I'm in the Mood for Love
    3:09

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