Let My Children Hear Music
Let My Children Hear Music | ||||
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Studio album by Charles Mingus | ||||
Released | January/February 1972[1] | |||
Recorded | September 23 – November 18, 1971 | |||
Genre | Avant-garde jazz, third stream | |||
Length | 59:33 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Teo Macero | |||
Charles Mingus chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [2] |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [3] |
Let My Children Hear Music is an album released by Columbia Records in 1972 of music by composer Charles Mingus, produced by Teo Macero. The music is scored for large jazz orchestra and Mingus worked with several arrangers, orchestrators and conductors, most notably Sy Johnson and Alan Raph, to realize some of his most ambitious compositions. In the original liner notes, Mingus described it as "the best album I have ever made".
Mingus was nominated for the 1973 Grammy Award for Best Album Notes (Non-Classical) for the album, losing to Tom T. Hall for Tom T. Hall's Greatest Hits.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Charles Mingus.
- "The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jiveass Slippers" – 9:34
- "Adagio ma Non Troppo" – 8:22
- "Don't Be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too" – 9:26
- "Taurus in the Arena of Life" – 4:17 (on CD reissue)
- "Hobo Ho" – 10:07
- "The Chill of Death" – 7:38
- "The I of Hurricane Sue" – 10:09
Personnel
The soloists are listed below:[4]
- Lonnie Hillyer - trumpet
- Julius Watkins - French horn
- Bobby Jones - tenor saxophone
- Joe Wilder - trumpet
- Charles McCracken - cello
- Charles McPherson - alto saxophone
- James Moody - tenor saxophone
- Sir Roland Hanna - piano
- Snooky Young - lead trumpet throughout
- Dannie Richmond - drums
References
- ^ Billboard Mar 18, 1972
- ^ Olewnick, Brian (2011). "Let My Children Hear Music - Charles Mingus | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
- ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 141. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- ^ Booklet from 1992 Columbia Legacy CD
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albums
- The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus
- Jazz Composers Workshop
- Pithecanthropus Erectus
- The Clown
- East Coasting
- Mingus Three
- A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry
- Mingus Ah Um
- Blues & Roots
- Mingus Dynasty
- Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
- Pre-Bird
- Mingus
- Oh Yeah
- Tijuana Moods
- Money Jungle
- The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
- Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
- Tonight at Noon
- Mingus Plays Piano
- Blue Bird
- Pithycanthropus Erectus
- Let My Children Hear Music
- Mingus Moves
- Changes One
- Changes Two
- Three or Four Shades of Blues
- His Final Work
- Cumbia & Jazz Fusion
- Something Like a Bird
- Charles Mingus with Orchestra
- Reincarnation of a Lovebird
albums
- Mingus at the Bohemia (1956)
- Jazz Portraits: Mingus in Wonderland (1959)
- The Complete Town Hall Concert (1962)
- The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach (1963)
- Astral Weeks (1964)
- Town Hall Concert (1964)
- Revenge! (1964)
- The Great Concert of Charles Mingus (1964)
- Mingus in Europe Volume I (1964)
- Mingus in Europe Volume II (1964)
- Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop (1964)
- Mingus at Monterey (1964)
- My Favorite Quintet (1965)
- Music Written for Monterey 1965 (1965)
- Charles Mingus Sextet In Berlin (1970)
- Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (1972)
- Mingus at Antibes (1974)
- Mingus at Carnegie Hall (1974)
- Cornell 1964 (2007)
- Beneath the Underdog (1971 autobiography)
- Mingus Big Band
- Mingus Dynasty
- Sue Mingus
- Jazz at Massey Hall (1953)
- Weary Blues (1958)
- Newport Rebels (1960)
- Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1964)
- Mingus (1979)
- Epitaph (1990)
- Mingus: Charlie Mingus 1968
- Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog (1998 documentary)
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