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  1. Vor 4 Tagen · Bechet also frequently showed he was able to create bold improvisations on old standards, as he demonstrated on “Weary Blues.” Sidney Bechet’s legacy of masterpieces

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  2. Vor 4 Tagen · The Weary Blues. Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, I heard a Negro play. Down on Lenox Avenue the other night. By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light. He did a lazy sway… To the tune o' those Weary Blues. With his ebony hands on each ivory key. He made that poor piano moan with melody. O Blues!

  3. Vor 3 Tagen · The term "Jazz Age" was used by many who saw African American music, especially the blues and jazz, as the defining features of the Renaissance. However, both jazz and the blues were imports to Harlem. They emerged out of the African American experience around the turn of the century in southern towns and cities, like New Orleans, Memphis, and St. Louis. From these origins these musical forms ...

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  4. Vor 4 Tagen · Career First published in 1921 in The Crisis — official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) — "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" became Hughes's signature poem and was collected in his first book of poetry, The Weary Blues (1926). Hughes's first and last published poems appeared in The Crisis; more of his poems were published in The Crisis than in ...

  5. Vor 4 Tagen · They represent the best known and most interpreted blues songs that are seen as standing the test of time. Blues standards come from different eras and styles, such as ragtime-vaudeville, Delta and other early acoustic styles, and urban blues from Chicago and the West Coast.

  6. Vor einem Tag · Keb’ Mo‘, mittlerweile selbst profilierter Blues-Musiker drüben, auf der anderen Seite des Atlantiks, spielte auf seinem 2008er Album „Keep It Simple“ mit dem Song „Riley B. King“ eine rührende Hommage an den wahren König des Blues. Riley ist B.B. und B.B. ist King, jener hauchfein über die Saiten seiner Lucille kraulende Könner, der neben Albert

  7. Vor 5 Tagen · Among the rare book holdings are important titles relating to the culture of African-Americans of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Examples include a first editions of Phillis Wheatley's Poems, Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and Langston Hughes' The Weary Blues. There are also a number of special ...