CHARLES MINGUS / The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (LP)

CHARLES MINGUS の『The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady』アナログ再発盤。ジャズ・ベーシスト、コンポーザーの CHARLES MINGUS の代表作の一つ『The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady』がオリジナルのマスターテープよりリマスターされアナログ再発。ジャンルにとらわれず素晴らしいリリースの続く Superior Viaduct より。

Recorded January 20, 1963.

Bassist / composer CHARLES MINGUS is one of the most radical figures in American music. Throughout the '50s, he worked as a sideman with legendary players Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and more. In the '60s, he gained recognition as a bandleader, often followed by controversy for making strong-minded statements in the press about race, politics and stodgy music critics. While MINGUS received many honors posthumously as well as during his career, perhaps his greatest achievement was transcending the restrictive label of jazz.

The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady is without question MINGUS' 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.

In his best-known essay, 'Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung,' Lester Bangs praises, 'the experience of the first few listenings to a record so total, so mind-twisting, that you authentically can say you'll never be quite the same again. Black Saint and The Sinner Lady did that, and a very few others. They're events you remember all your life, like your first real orgasm.'

Track Listing:
Solo Dancer - Stop! Look! And Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney!
Duet Solo Dancers - Hearts' 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