Rap Legend and actor Ice-T joins musical director and trumpeter Ron McCurdy, along with the Ron McCurdy Quartet, to bring a brilliant 21st century realization of American icon Langston Hughes’ ...

Langston Hughes II, at 23 years old ... Currently immersed in the pursuit of a master's degree in Jazz Studies at The Juilliard School in the vibrant landscape of New York City, Langston's musical ...

DECORAH, IOWA—Ron McCurdy, professor of music at the University of Southern California, and his quartet will perform Langston Hughes’s “Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz” for Luther College’s Center ...

DECATUR — Langston Hughes created poetry full of rhythm. His piece “Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz” has variations in repetitions throughout the poem. “By the river and the railroad ...

Heck, he practically invented jazz poetry, a form focused on rhythm, and his work remains a staple of the art form to this ...

but a primer in Hughes’ own jazz poetry," Kirkus Reviews noted. Part of a long-running biography series for kids, "Who Was Langston Hughes?" from author Billy Merrell will lead young readers ...

Johnson and the Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes. Mary Lou Williams’s “Zodiac Suite” has long been popular in its jazz-trio form, but its chamber orchestra version had never been ...

Celebrated for his jazz-like poetry that zoomed in on the ... but also the lives of African Americans past and present, Langston Hughes is a literary genius who paved the way for many poets ...