The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady

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 clich?s 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 more

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Nov-02-2008; If you need any more convincing...; What's another five-star review on the pile of existing ones for "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady"? Nothing, really, except to echo dozens of reviewers before me in calling this album a brilliant, groundbreaking, remarkable synthesis...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-07-2008; i hate to use this phrase, but..........; This is probably the best jazz album of all time. Mingus, one of the great jazz composers and all time lunitics, has a suite in Black Saint that runs the entire span of jazz, from Dixieland to the then (1963) rising avant garde. Free...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-29-2008; True Masterpiece of Modern Music; After listening to this album many times over the past couple years, I can only come to the conclusion that this work ranks up there with some of the greatest artistic human achievements. Mr. Mingus, already a trailblazing master of jazz...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-27-2008; One Cool Cat; Outstanding! This is as cool as they come. Charles Mingus should have his own Universe where he is king of everything. Listening to this recording convinces me that Mingus was a true original in every sense of the word. Wow! I could...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Nov-02-2008; If you need any more convincing...; What's another five-star review on the pile of existing ones for "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady"? Nothing, really, except to echo dozens of reviewers before me in calling this album a brilliant, groundbreaking, remarkable synthesis...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-08-2000; I Don't Get It; I don't like this one particularly. People have gone on and on about this release for years, but I just don't hear why. I recommend Mingus' other recordings, which are less formally structured but which I find more coherent and...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-18-2001; The Black Saint; This was the fisrt Mingus album I collected, and I have been searching through his catalogue for its equal ever since. Sure, his earlier work on Columbia (think "Mingus Ah Um") was truly special, but nothing I've heard captures the...; read full review | report as inappropriate