Charles Mingus - Black Saint & The Sinner Lady (Acoustic Sounds Series)

A six-part suite with dramatic shifts in mood & tempo, Charles Mingus' "Black Saint and the Sinner Lady" broke new ground in both genre-defying composition and innovative recording techniques in 1963. There's nothing else in jazz quite like this collection recorded - astonishingly - in just one session on January 20, 1963. The album uses ornate ensemble orchestration to produce a sound somewhere between jazz and folk.

Newly remastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound From the Original Analog Tapes for Verve's Acoustic Sounds Series. Pressed at Quality Record Pressings. Gatefold tip-on sleeve.