Music : The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0011105117425
Label: IMPULSE
Manufacturer: IMPULSE
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: IMPULSE
Release Date: March 20, 1999
Running Time: 38 minutes
Studio: IMPULSE
Sales Rank: 23245

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Disc 1:

1. Track A - Solo Dancer
2. Track B-Duet Solo Dancers (Hearts' Beat And Shades In Physical Embraces)
3. Track C - Group Dancers
4. Medley: Mode D - Trio And Group Dancers / Mode E - Single Solos And Group Dance / Mode F - Group And Solo Dance

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
This 1963 recording occupies a special place in Mingus's work, his most brilliantly realized extended composition. The six-part suite is a broad canvas for the bassist's tumultuous passions, ranging from islands of serenity for solo guitar and piano to waves of contrapuntal conflict and accelerating rhythms that pull the listener into the musical psychodrama. It seems to mingle and transform both the heights and clichés of jazz orchestration, from Mingus's master, Duke Ellington, to film noir soundtracks. The result is a masterpiece of sounds and textures, from the astonishing vocal effects of the plunger-muted trumpets and trombone (seeming to speak messages just beyond the range of understanding) to the soaring romantic alto of Charlie Mariano. Boiling beneath it all are the teeming, congested rhythms of Mingus and drummer Dannie Richmond and the deep morass of tuba and baritone saxophone. This is one of the greatest works in jazz composition, and it's remarkable that Mingus dredged this much emotional power from a group of just 11 musicians. --Stuart Broomer




Rating: - More mysterious than the Holy Grail.
Forgive the tital, but how exactly do I define an album such as this, or indeed an artist like Mingus? This is the most undoubted five-star I have ever given, because, unlike most art, which either seems clear and gives you a good impression, or seems clear but gives you a banal impression, this does not seem clear ( in any of the multiple meanings of the term) , but gives you a transcendentally impressed feeling afterwards.
Certainly, it does seem quite gloomy. The title makes me think ... Read More

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Rating: - He must be laughing
I bought an early vinyl copy of this album when it was first issued and got much amusement (as did my parents) from playing it to unsuspecting friends. Their movement, or lack of it, was most revealing. Very few noticed what the previous 5 reviewers also seem to have missed, that this is the most accomplished and most explicit musical description of sexual activity that has ever been recorded. Track 2 most obviously. When I met him at Ronnie Scott's, he confirmed that it was his favourite trap for ... Read More

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Rating: - epic jazz masterpiece
Anyone who has enjoyed Mingus's shorter compositions and arrangements from earlier landmark LPs, for example 'Ah Um' and 'Dynasty' will absolutely love this, as 'The Black Saint...' contains all of Mingus's trademark compositional techniques from those albums and much (much) more - Charles Mariano's fervent alto sax solos, the typical Mingus style slow build-up accelerating to fantastic climaxes, the Ellington-inspired orchestrations (with unusual instrumental combinations and stylistic clashes - an example ... Read More

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Rating: - One of Mingus's finest
I must admit that there are a fair few composers in jazz that I would put at the top of my list before Charles Mingus, (think Ellington, Nichols, Monk, Shorter, Hill, etc) yet there cannot be any more exciting opening than "Track A - Solo Dancer" on "The Black Saint and the sinner lady. " Stoked by the drums of Danny Richmond, the band swirls around the grumbling tones of the tuba in a kaleidoscope of colours, the time signatures constantly shifting before a piercing soprano solo rounds things off, pursued ... Read More

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Rating: - Prepare to be moved
I thought after 30 years of listening to music I could no longer be surprised. Wrong. I don't think a recording has ever stunned me the way Black Saint has. It's like nothing you've ever heard before, yet it has an emotional impact that is all too familiar and that touches your very core. It ebbs and flows with a dynamic grace and truth that is clearly a reflection of a genius, of a mind that could encapsulate all the highs and lows of the human condition like few others. Don't miss the opportunity to have ... Read More

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