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.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Solo Dancer (Stop! Look! And Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney!)
2. Duet Solo Dancers (Heart's Beat and Shades in Physical Embraces)
3. Group Dancers (Soul Fusion) [Freewoman and Oh, This Freedom's Slave Cries]
4. 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]