Twilight for Gladys Bentley' is the debut solo album from award-winning poet and musician, Shirlette Ammons. She calls the album a 're-imagining' of the trail-blazing blues singer and bulldagger, Gladys Bentley. Ammons spent over a year on a personal journey to explore and re-interperate the unsung blues singer who defied sexual and gender norms while putting on one of the hippest performance in 1920′s Harlem. 'Twilight for Gladys Bentley,' is the result of that exploration. Shirlette says, "I wanted to create a record that uses hip hop, the music of posturing and prowess of my day, to channel the memory of Gladys Bentley. Gladys took popular songs and replaced the lyrics with raunchy, more provocative ones. I instead wrote original tunes that conjure the same energy of rebellion and sexual liberation." Rather than conjuring up the blues like Gladys, Shirlette uses hip hop to create a record that revisits the 'steaze' of southern dandyism, that is lyrically dapper and a little raunchy. . The album features guest appearances from soul songstress Sy Smith, Renaissance artist, W. Ellington Felton, playwright Chaunesti Webb, songwriter Jocelyn Ellis, North Carolina crooner, Little Hollow, and Germany's rap "Quing," Sookee.