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Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
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Charles Mingus' 1963 Album The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady on Colored LP.
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Long-considered Charles Mingus’ masterpiece, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady represents high-water marks in both jazz composition and orchestration. An essential recording in the history of jazz, this work has been performed as a ballet and features original liner notes by Mingus’ psychotherapist. Available on Impulse! colored vinyl.
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is without question Charles Mingus's magnum opus. Originally released on Impulse! in 1963, the album broke new ground in both genre-defying composition and innovative recording techniques. A six-part suite with dramatic shifts in mood and tempo, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady features the three-way brass dialogue of trumpets, trombone and tuba, swooping reeds and awe-inspiring rhythm section. Balancing delicate Spanish modes and Ellingtonian themes, the ensemble breaks into a divine cacophony of group improvisation on par with free jazz giants Ornette Coleman or Cecil Taylor.
Track Listing
- Solo Dancer (Stop! And Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney!)
- Duet Solo Dancers (Heart's Beat and Shades In Physical Embraces)
- Group Dancers (Soul Fusion) (Freewoman and Oh This Freedom's Slave Cries)
- Trio and Group Dancers (Stop! Look! And Sing Songs Of Revolutions!)
- Single Solos and Group Dance (Saint and Sinner Join In Merriment on Battle Front)
- Group and Solo Dance (Of Love, Pain, and Passioned Revolt, Then Farewell, My Beloved, 'Til It's Freedom Day)
