Song for a Dark Girl
Context
Setting to music of a Langston Hughes poem on Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes, the first album by cellist and singer Leyla McCalla, released in February 2014 on Music Maker and reissued in 2020 by Smithsonian Folkways. The album alternates Hughes poems and traditional songs from Haiti, her parents' country of origin.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Current scene (New York, Chicago, worldwide). Among the origins and influences of Current scene: Israeli jazz, Neoclassicism, Young Lions, Hard bop, Free jazz, Spiritual jazz.