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Features Disc of the day
Charles Mingus
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
(Impulse!, 1963)
Torture and enlightenment courtesy of one of jazz's true giants...
From the shadowy backstreets of Manhattan's urban sprawl to the exalted outer limits of spiritual salvation, The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady delivers a mammoth emotional wallop that runs the gamut from grime to glory. Through its six parts, Mingus and his 11 hotshot players conjure images of creeping hobos, fawning sophisticates, domestic loneliness and a mind on fire. Born in Arizona and raised in Watts, Mingus found his voice on the double bass, but like his hero Duke Ellington he was equally at home as a band leader and composer. An outspoken, volatile character prone to depression, he spent a spell in the late-'50s in New York's Bellevue psychiatric hospital, before delivering this - his emotional meltdown set to music. A pressure cooker of queasy rhythms and squawking sax solos, TBSATSL swings between Ellingtonian grace and jam session spontaneity. Everywhere - even behind Track C's sweet piano melody, played by the man himself - there lurks the bristling underdog, ready to take on a world that has done nothing but spit in his face. In fact, there's so much going on in here that Mingus turned to the only person he could trust to make sense of it all - his psychiatrist. "He tries to tell people he is in great pain and anguish because he loves," wrote Dr Edmund Pollock in his original sleevenote. "His music is a call for acceptance, respect, love understanding, fellowship, freedom - a plea to change the evil in man and to end the hatred." Suffice to say, there's no easy way in to this album (for that look to the equally brilliant Mingus Ah Um). But if you consider yourself a thrill seeker, lift the lid on TBSATSL and face the hurricane head on.
Ross Bennett
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 12/03/2009
Further Listening
Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um (Columbia, 1959)
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1964)
Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus (Atlantic, 1956)
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you are good at playing music
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