Frank Proto's composition and collaboration, Afro-American Fragments, (which derives its name from a Langston Hughes poem written in 1930), and the three other pieces complied on this CD, celebrate four of the most prolific, iconoclastic, controversial, and influential artists of this century: writer Langston Hughes, and musicians Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, and Miles Davis. Performed by Ensemble Sans Frontiere: Ronald Aufmann, Norman Johns, Charles Holmond, John Blake, and Frank Proto himself!