Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz, The Langston Hughes Project
Two Free Performances on April 18, 2006
- 9:50 to 11:05 a.m.
- Chandler Gilbert Community College
- Pecos Campus
- Performing Arts Center
- Info: Mike Greene (480) 732-7146
- 7 to 9 p.m.
- Arizona State University
- Polytechnic Campus, Mesa
- Student Union Cooley Ballrooms
- Info: (480) 727-1098
Experience the collaborative masterwork of the poet Langston Hughes and jazz bassist/composer Charles Mingus. This epic jazz poem suite is a homage in verse and music to the African-American struggle for artistic and social freedom in America in the 1960s.