A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry With Charles Mingus

Album by Charles Mingus

A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry is a studio album by American jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus, released in 1957. The music blends hard bop ensemble playing and Mingus's developing compositional experiments with spoken-word elements and arranged passages, marking an exploratory phase in his career as he expanded from small-group bebop into more structured, thematic jazz forms.
First released: 1957

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Scenes in the City
    11:38
  2. 2.
    Nouroog
    4:45
  3. 3.
    New York Sketchbook
    8:43
  4. 4.
    Duke's Choice
    6:21
  5. 5.
    Slippers
    3:21

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