About this title: The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is one of the greatest achievements in orchestration by any composer in jazz history. Charles Mingus consciously designed the six-part ballet as his magnum opus, and -- implied in his famous inclusion of liner notes by his psychologist -- it's as much an examination of his own tortured psyche as it is a conceptual piece about love and struggle. It veers between so many emotions that it defies easy encapsulation; for that matter, it can be difficult just to assimilate in the first place. Yet the work soon reveals itself as a masterpiece of rich, multi ...
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Edition: Original recording reissued
Format: CD
Label: Grp Records
Date: 11/07/1995
UPC:011105017428
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Format: CD
Label: Impulse!
Date: 2001
UPC:076732564929
Description: New in new packaging. Originally released: 1963. Brand new Japanese mini LP paper sleeve with OBI strip import CD of the classic album. It was a limited edition which sold out quickly and is now out of print. read more
"A tour de force if there ever was one, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady consists of a single six-part suite performed by an eleven-piece band. Mingus gathered a wonderful group of musicians, but what goes on in the album far exceeds just great musicianship; listening to it, one gets the sense of people delving deep not only into their own souls, but also to those of everyone around them, and to the listeners’ by extension. From the opening—a six-minute piece titled “Stop! Look! and Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney”—to the even more baroquely-named climax, “Of Love, Pain, and Passioned Revolt, then Farewell, My Beloved, ‘Till It’s Freedom Day!,” Mingus draws on an array of subjects, themes, and motifs, some political, some personal, all profoundly emotional. He beautifully evokes both his time and that of a long-gone era by biting Stravinsky and Schoenberg, in the end fashioning what the man himself deemed as “ethnic folk-dance music.”"
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