Episode 86 | The Langston Hughes Blues

Episode Notes: Transformative poetry swirls around the joys and hardships of working-class black lives from James Mercer Langston Hughes - an American poet, leader of the Harlem Renaissance, and father of what came to be known as “jazz poetry.” Featuring selections from Hughes’ early poetry collection “The Weary Blues”, evocatively rendered by acclaimed DC theatre artist, Ricardo Frederick Evans and the imaginative jazz compositions of Chicago trumpeter Markus Rutz, along with his musical collaborators, The Markus Rutz Trio & Quartet.