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mingus, charles – black saint & the sinner lady (33rpm lp)
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MEDIUM Vinyl Record
AUDIOPHIL Yes
Weight 180gr (black vinyl) 33rpm
CONDITION sealed
CONDITION RECORD M mint
COVER Gatefold
CONDITION COVER M mint
SERIALNUMBER No
BARCODE Yes

MUSICIANS

Rolf Ericson – trumpet
Richard Williams – trumpet
Quentin Jackson – trombone
Don Butterfield – tuba
Jerome Richardson - soprano baritone & flute
Dick Hafer - tenor sax & flute
Charles Mariano - alto sax
Jack Byard – piano
Jay Berliner – guitar
Charlie Mingus - bass & piano
Dannie Richmond - drums

SIDE 1

solo dancer - 6:20
duet solo dancers - 6:25
group dancers - 7:00

SIDE 2

trio and group dancers / single solos and group dance / group and solo dance - 17:52

REVIEW

Impulse, the new record company founded by Bob Thiele, was where Charlie Mingus made his musical home at the end of 1962

And with his very first album, entitled “The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady”, the double bass player produced a masterwork of the very highest order; this time it was his compositional talent rather than his instrument which was in the limelight

He added a good portion of rhythmic variety to the melodiousness of his ‘hero’ Duke Ellington and then added a touch of politics, for even in 1963 slavery had by no means been fully abolished in ‘American Society’!

That is the explanation for the title of the suite – a harking back to African roots, the struggle for human rights for black people on all levels of political and cultural society, and a vision of ‘Freedom Day’!

Though Charlie Mariano’s tenor saxophone is spotlighted soloistically, it is really the varying timbres and changes in tempo that make all 39 minutes of this LP a sheer pleasure to listen to

But Charlie Mingus does not demand that his public merely sit and listen to his music; he wants them to get up and dance to it

No, it’s not ballet music – more an inspiration for expressing oneself in movement

The old Impulse pressings with their wonderful gatefold sleeves were almost always disappointing from a technical point of view because the LPs contained too much re-cycled vinyl

Now, after almost 40 years, we have the opportunity to bestow the studio technique with the recognition it deserves

This is the music that everyone always wanted to take with them on their desert island

RECORDING January 1963 by Bob Simpson
RE RELEASED May 2001
RATING 5 Stars out of 5
PRESSING Audiophil by Pallas Germany
SOUND Audiophil
MADE IN Germany

STYLE

Jazz / Post Bop / Progressive Big Band

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This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 12 May, 2002.

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