Charles Mingus – The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

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LabelImpulse (Acoustic Sounds Series)
Catalogue numberAIMP 60201
GenreJazz
Number of Discs1
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“A comparison between this reissue and an original Impulse produced a sonic draw with each having its own attractive qualities — warmer original versus more transparent reissue — but the reissue is pressed on far quieter vinyl and given a choice I’d take the reissue. Musical and sonic fireworks well worth getting.” — Music = 10/11; Sound = 10/11 — Michael Fremer, AnalogPlanet.com. Read the whole review here.

On January 20, 1963, bassist and composer Charles Mingus recorded in just one session — astonishingly — a very personal and socially conscious work he titled The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady. With liner notes written by Mingus’s psychotherapist, the album uses ornate ensemble orchestration to produce a sound somewhere between jazz and folk.

Released on Impulse! Records in 1963, the album consists of a single continuous composition — partially written as a ballet — divided into four tracks and six movements. Of his adventurous and hauntingly eloquent work, among his other creations, Mingus said: “My music is evidence of my soul’s will to live.”  The evidence of that life-force amounts to some of the most dramatic and powerful jazz composed in the 20th century.

Mingus was born in Arizona on April 22, 1922 and raised in Los Angeles. He was taught double-bass by Red Callendar, and by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra’s Herman Rheinshagen (classical music played as big a part in his compositional thinking as gospel songs and the blues). Mingus toured with New Orleans players Louis Armstrong and Kid Ory in the 40s, and later worked briefly with Lionel Hampton and Duke Ellington.

If he had been an improvising instrumentalist alone, Mingus would have been a jazz legend simply for his bass playing. Yet bass-playing also gave Mingus an insight into the low sonorities and inner hamonies of jazz composition, and his melodic approach was profoundly influenced by the blues and gospel music of his childhood.

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Weight 0,8 kg
Label

Impulse (Acoustic Sounds Series)

Catalog number

AIMP 60201

Genre

Jazz

Category

180 Gram Vinyl Record

No. of Discs

1

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 Side A

  • Solo Dancer (Stop! And Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney!)
  • Duet Solo Dancers (Heart’s Beat And Shades In Physical Embraces)
  • Group Dancers ( Freewoman And Oh This Freedom’s Slave Cries)

Side B

  • 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)