Charles Mingus – The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

Charles MingusThe Black Saint and the Sinner Lady Impulse! AS-35 (1963)


I think this is a pretty good album.  It’s really just a refinement of Ellingtonian ideas, rather than anything groundbreaking.  And the album does insist itself upon the listener.  I think there are better Mingus albums.  But this is still good.  Oh, lest I forget to mention this:  read the liner notes.  The whole pretentious asshole quality of Mingus that you might detect in the music should become crystal clear.