Afro Blue

"Afro Blue" is a jazz standard composed by Mongo Santamaría, perhaps best known in its arrangement by John Coltrane.

Famous quotes containing the words afro and/or blue:

    “Quadroon mermaids, Afro angels, black saints
    balanced upon the switchblades of that air
    and sang.”
    —Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)

    ““Things as they are
    Are changed upon the blue guitar.””
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)