The Twin Cities first Spoken Word compilation. Speakeasy Records' first full production release, Words Will Heal the Wound: A Celebration of Community Through Poetry, was developed from the noted spoken word radio series. Words Will Heal features the works of J. Otis Powell!, Arkology, Truthmaze, Bao Phi, ANIKA, Desdamona, Sister Mimi, Sha Cage, Slug (of Atmosphere), Wookiefoot, and others. Includes original version of Slug's 'Hell's Playground'. A must have for lovers of spoken word and those interested in the Minnesota scene.
from
Words Will Heal the Wound (Volume One),
released July 3, 2001
10. Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods For Jazz Mood 1, Cultural Exchange – Prof. John Wright and the University of Minnesota Faculty Jazz Quartet (Afrikan American)
written by Langston Hughes • recorded live at the Walker Art Center by e.g. bailey
John Wright is a professor of Afro-American & African Studies and English at the University of Minnesota. He is also the faculty scholar for the nationally acclaimed Archie Givens, Sr. Collection of African American Literature & Life, and its touring exhibition on the Harlem Renaissance, A Stronger Soul Within a Finer Frame. In addition to his teaching and research, he performs dramatic readings with musical accompaniment, and together with jazz scholar and clinician, Prof. Ron McCurdy, headlined revivals of Langston Hughes' Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz at at the Frederick Weisman Art Museum in 1994 and at the Walker Art Center, in concert with Imamu Amiri Baraka in 1996. He and Prof. McCurdy collaborated with John Faddis and the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band in the production of Ask Your Mama that opened the fall 2000 jazz concert series at Carnegie Hall.
Executive Producers: e.g. bailey & Shá Cage
* Produced by Andrew Baschyn
** Produced by jeremy c.
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