Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance

Release by Various Artists

Track list

CD 1: Struttin' & Stridin'

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

CD 2: Testifyin' & Philosophyin'

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

CD 3: Preachin' & Prayin'

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

CD 4: Lustin' for Love & Life

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

Labels

=> Rhino (reissue label)

R2 79874

Release events

2000 United States

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