Twelve Moods for Jazz

Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazzis Langston Hughes’ homage in verse and music to the struggle for artistic and social freedom at home and abroad at the beginning of the 1960s. Together, the words, sounds and images recreate a magical moment in cultural history which bridges the Harlem renaissance, the post-World War II beat writers’ coffeehouse jazz poetry world, and the looming Black Arts explosion of the 1960’s. The performance is brought to life by the extraordinary talents of the Ron McCurdy Quartet.