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Charles Mingus - The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady Audio CD

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Charles Mingus Band: Charles Mingus
Title: The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady
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Release Date: 1995-11-07
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Track A - Solo Dancer 2: Track B - Duet Solo Dancers 3: Track C - Group Dancers 4: Mode D - Trio and Group Dancers/Mode E - Single Solos and Group Dance

Classic Mingus at its finest
It was absolute the right choice! If you enjoy Jazz but don't have this Mingus CD you are really shorting your good taste!. I bought this as a gift for my daughter who has an extensive library of music and a very eclectic taste.


Perfect
From the first moment I was hooked, this album is the outpouring of a man's soul to be sure, but like all Mingus I've encountered so far, is always perfectly controlled, the composer/arranger/player Mingus always knows exactly where he's going and what he wants, even in the most riotous and complex passages. I've been listening to classical music since my early teens, and while my jazz phase is more recent, I can say I've never heard anything in the entire spectrum of music like Black Saint & The Sinner Lady. Perfectly elegant, controlled, soulful rending and tearing. It shot to the top of my favorite jazz albums list less than 30 minutes after I unwrapped it from the plastic.


Timeless and indispensable
The rhythm section of Mingus and Richmond are criminally underrated. This is the rare album that really deserves the praise it's received. Everybody plays exceptionally well here. The music itself is dense but vibrant (a swinging take on Ives and/or Stravinsky, maybe?). Highly recommended.


Intense
This is not the sort of record you leave playing in the background, it demands your attention and you can only really enjoy it if you are focusing on it. Intense, emotionally stirring and unorthodox. This is a great album, but it's not fun. I love it, but I don't constantly listen to it. .


If you need any more convincing...
The instruments seem to speak parts of an intricate play; indeed, this is one of the most intense non-vocal albums to listen to for me, as it runs the gamut from despair to elation. What's another five-star review on the pile of existing ones for "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady"? Nothing, really, except to echo dozens of reviewers before me in calling this album a brilliant, groundbreaking, remarkable synthesis of a composer's vision and the jaw-dropping talents of his ten chosen disciples to convey this intensely spiritual and emotional jazz work. In some ways, the album is a tour of jazz styles and musicians past and future; the 1963 date gives one pause as he or she realizes what Mingus and his musicians on BS&SL were anticipating that only became clear in later artists' recordings. But more than some museum walk through jazz, BS&SL is a compositional, technical masterpiece that grabs you from the first sax growl and holds you until the last unaccompanied tenor sax note floats off into infinity, a fittingly ambiguous ending to this recording that tries to accomplish so much and for once, manages to pull it off. .


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