The Langston Hughes Project
"Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz" is a masterwork written in twelve parts by Langston Hughes in the early 1960s. Hughes at his best--insightful, wise, poignant, funny and soulful--is brought to life in this multimedia production. The audience experiences the mood of the Harlem Renaissance in this 800-line suite of poems accompanied by a live jazz quartet, the Ron McCurdy Quartet. The large-as-life visual illustrations on screen portray Hughes' world through his collaborators and contemporaries.
