Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

[EAC + FLAC] The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is a 1963 jazz composition and album by bassist Charles Mingus. The piece consists of a single six-part suite performed by an eleven-piece band. An intensely emotional work, it displays Mingus' skill as composer, orchestrator, and technician. Written as a ballet, the work borrows from Ellingtonian and Latin sources, but creates a unique orchestral style that Mingus called "ethnic folk-dance music". The orchestrations (described as "one of the greatest achievements [...] by any composer in jazz history" by the All Music Guide) are rich and multi-layered. Mingus' perfectionism led to extensive use of studio overdubbing techniques, the first for a jazz album.The track A features the virtuoso Don Butterfield (Normaly a tuba performer) playing a contrabass trombone The album liner notes were provided by Mingus' psychotherapist, Dr. Edmund Pollock. Track listing: -------------- 1. "Track A - Solo Dancer" -6:20 "Stop! Look! and Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney!" 2. "Track B - Duet Solo Dancers" -6:25 "Hearts' Beat and Shades in Physical Embraces" 3. "Track C - Group Dancers" -7:00 "(Soul Fusion) Freewoman and Oh, This Freedom's Slave Cries" 4. -17:52 "Mode D - Trio and Group Dancers" "Stop! Look! and Sing Songs of Revolutions!" "Mode E - Single Solos and Group Dance" "Saint and Sinner Join in Merriment on Battle Front" "Mode F - Group and Solo Dance" "Of Love, Pain, and Passioned Revolt, then Farewell, My Beloved, 'til It's Freedom Day" (All songs by Mingus; Bob Hammer helped in music arrangements. Recorded in New York City on 20 January 1963 by Bob Simpson.) Personnel: ---------- * Charles Mingus - bass, piano, leader * Jerome Richardson - soprano, baritone saxophones, flute * Charlie Mariano - alto saxophone * Dick Hafer - tenor saxophone, flute * Rolf Ericson - trumpet * Richard Williams - trumpet * Quentin Jackson - trombone * Don Butterfield - tuba, contrabass trombone * Jaki Byard - piano * Jay Berliner - acoustic guitar * Dannie Richmond - drums

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 nigeldpablo (2008-02-11)

thanks , mingus is great !!!

muzikphan (2008-07-07)

Many thanks.

VelvetMirror (2010-04-21)

Thanks.

matosis (2012-04-03)

thank you very much