Weary Blues (album)

Weary Blues
Studio album by Langston Hughes with Charles Mingus and Leonard Feather
Released	1958
Recorded	March 17–18, 1958 New York City
Genre	Jazz poetry
Label	MGM E 3697
Producer	Leonard Feather
Charles Mingus chronology
East Coasting (1957) Weary Blues (1958) A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry (1959)
CD Reissue

Weary Blues (also referred to as The Weary Blues) is an album by the American poet Langston Hughes, who recites several of his poems over jazz accompaniment composed and arranged by Leonard Feather and Charles Mingus. The album was recorded on March 17 & 18, 1958 in New York and was released on the MGM label in 1959. It was later reissued on Verve Records.^[1][2]

On side 1 (track 1) of the album Hughes is backed by a Leonard Feather organized group that includes Henry "Red" Allen, Sam "The Man" Taylor, Vic Dickenson, Milt Hinton, and Osie Johnson. On side 2 (tracks 2 and 3) the accompaniment is by a Charles Mingus led group that includes Horace Parlan, Shafi Hadi, and Jimmy Knepper.