Ice T, Ron McCurdy

Rapper and actor Ice-T joins musical director and trumpeter Ron McCurdy and his quartet in a brilliant 21st century realisation of American icon Langston Hughes’ creative masterpiece, the epic twelve-part jazz poem suite Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz.

A homage in verse and music to the struggle for artistic and social freedom at the beginning of the 60s, Ask Your Mama evokes Hughes’ life and times and a message that resonates as strongly today as ever.

Ask Your Mama can be described as the soundtrack of the sixties, showing Langston Hughes at his best: insightful, wise, poignant, funny and soulful with a powerful social commentary.