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With the release of an album of music inspired by poet Hone Tuwhare by the Rodger Fox Big Band, Nick checks out jazz inspired by Langston Hughes, Bill Manhire, Walt Whitman and Edgar Allen Poe
Selected poems by Hone Tuwhare
MUSIC DETAILS:
| # | Artist: | Song: | Composer: | Album | Label: | Duration: |
| 1 | Rodger Fox Big Band | Bird of Prayer | Ryan | Rodger Fox Big band plays Hone Tuwhare | private | 06:00 |
| 2 | Rodger Fox Big Band | The River is an Island | Schwabe | Rodger Fox Big band plays Hone Tuwhare | private | 09:20 |
| 3 | Jasmine Lovell Smith & Jake Baxendale | Leaves of Grass I: Opening | Baxendale | Sanctuary | private | 04:16 |
| 4 | Langston Hughes & Horace Parlan Quintet | Consider Me: The Stranger / Midnight Stroll / Backstage | Hughes / Parlan | The Weary Blues with Langston Hughes | Fingertips | 03:09 |
| 5 | Bill Manhire / Norman Meehan / Hannah Griffin / Hayden Chisholm | Warehouse Curtains | Manhire / Meehan | Small Holes in the Silence | Rattle | 06:31 |
| 6 | Fred Hersch Ensemble | Song of Myself Part IX: I Fly Those Flights | Whitman / Hersch | Leaves of Grass | Palmetto | 03:13 |
| 7 | Rodger Fox Big Band | Hotere | Allardice | Rodger Fox Big band plays Hone Tuwhare | private | 07:30 |
| 8 | Buddy Morrow | Annabel Lee | Poe / Morrow | Poe for Moderns: Music to Scare your Neighbours | Fingertips | 02:48 |
