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Avie Records  
Disc No: AV 2346
Price: Sek. 215 (2CD) Epic poetry set to powerful music, brought to life by a cast of legendary performers: ASK YOUR MAMA is an original musical setting by four-time Emmy Award-winning composer Laura Karpman of the 1961 masterpiece by Langston Hughes, delivered with majesty and magnetism by sopranos Janai Brugger and Angela Brown, hip-hop innovators The Roots and Medusa, jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon and others, conducted by Grammy-nominated George Manahan
Name: ASK YOUR MAMA
 

       

ComposerOpusMusicKey Performer
Karpman, Laura / Langston Hughes   Dedication   Janai Brugger, soprano
Blackthought and Questlove of The Roots
Nnenna Freelon
Angela Brown, soprano
Medusa, San Francisco Ballet Orchestra - George Manahan
Karpman, Laura / Langston Hughes   Cultural Exchange  
Karpman, Laura / Langston Hughes   Ride, Red, Ride  
Karpman, Laura / Langston Hughes   Shades Of Pigmeat  
Karpman, Laura / Langston Hughes   Ode To Dinah  
Karpman, Laura / Langston Hughes   Blues In Stereo  
Karpman, Laura / Langston Hughes   Horn Of Plenty  
Karpman, Laura / Langston Hughes   Gospel Cha-Cha  
Karpman, Laura / Langston Hughes   Is It True?  
Karpman, Laura / Langston Hughes   Ask Your Mama  
Karpman, Laura / Langston Hughes   Bird In Orbit  
Karpman, Laura / Langston Hughes   Jazztet Muted – Show Fare, Please  

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