Criada pela Verve e Universal Music para oferecer edições audiófilas de algumas das melhores gravações de jazz de sempre, a nova Acoustic Sounds Series é supervisionada por Chad Kassem, utilizando engenheiros de masterização de topo e o engenho da Quality Record Pressings, os títulos são masterizados a partir das fitas analógicas originais, prensados em vinil 180g com capas da Stoughton Printing.

Avaliado em 10/11 Música e 10/11 Som por Michael Fremer (Analog Planet)

• Acoustic Sounds Series
• Masterizado a partir das Fitas Master Analógicas Originais
• Corte por Ryan K. Smith na Sterling Sound
• LP Vinil 180 Gramas Audiófilo
• Prensagem na Quality Record Pressings, QRP USA
• Capa Gatefold Deluxe da Stoughton Printing

Em Janeiro de 1963, o contrabaixista e compositor Charles Mingus gravou um trabalho muito pessoal e de consciência social com o título The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady. Cada composição, desde a abertura com 'Solo Dancer' até ao fecho com 'Group and Solo Dance' era a expressão musical da filosofia de vida, do amor e do mundo que rodeia Mingus. Uma viagem musical impressionante!

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.

The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is one of the greatest achievements in orchestration by any composer in jazz history. Charles Mingus consciously designed the six-part ballet as his magnum opus, and - implied in his famous inclusion of liner notes by his psychologist - it's as much an examination of his own tortured psyche as it is a conceptual piece about love and struggle. It veers between so many emotions that it defies easy encapsulation; for that matter, it can be difficult just to assimilate in the first place. Yet the work soon reveals itself as a masterpiece of rich, multi-layered texture and swirling tonal colors, manipulated with a painter's attention to detail... one of the high-water marks for avant-garde jazz in the '60s and arguably Mingus' most brilliant moment. - Steve Huey, AllMusic

A wholly absorbing listen revivified by this spectacular remaster and a crystal clear vinyl pressing that should be part of any serious vinyl collector's library. - Robert Ham, Paste Magazine

The best way to think of this Bob Simpson engineered recording is as an RCA 'Living Stereo' packed in orange and black Impulse clothing. The sonics are sensationally transparent, with the ensemble spread across a wide soundstage. Though the emphasis is on hard left and right, as was the style back then the middle isn't an empty space. Jay Berliner's Flamenco-style guitar appears there transparently and with pristine transient articulation. A comparison between this reissue and an original Impulse produced a sonic draw with each having its own attractive qualities - warmer original versus more transparent reissue - but the reissue is pressed on far quieter vinyl and given a choice I'd take the reissue. Musical and sonic fireworks well worth getting. - Michael Fremer, Analog Planet, Music 10/11, Sound 10/11

Músicos:

Charlie Mingus, contrabaixo
Charlie Mariano, sax alto
Jake Byard, piano
Jay Berliner, guitarra
Don Butterfield, tuba
Dick Hafer, sax tenor, flauta
Quentin Jackson, trombone

Lista de Faixas:

Lado A
A1 Solo Dancer (Stop! And Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney!)
A2 Duet Solo Dancers (Heart's Beat And Shades In Physical Embraces)
A3 Group Dancers ([Soul Fusion] Freewoman And Oh This Freedom's Slave Cries)
    
Lado B
B1 Trio And Group Dancers (Stop! Look! And Sing Songs Of Revolutions!)     
B2 Single Solos And Group Dance (Saint And Sinner Join In Merriment On Battle Front)     
B3 Group And Solo Dance (Of Love, Pain, And Passioned Revolt, Then Farewell, My Beloved, 'til It's Freedom Day)

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