Let My Children Hear Music

Album by Charles Mingus

Let My Children Hear Music is a studio album by American jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus, released in 1972. The album features large-scale orchestral arrangements and complex, through-composed pieces that blend jazz improvisation with elements of classical and big-band writing, and it represents a late-period expansion of Mingus's use of orchestration and compositional ambition.
First released: 1972

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    The Shoes of the Fisherman’s Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers
    9:38
  2. 2.
    Adagio ma non troppo
    8:27
  3. 3.
    Don’t Be Afraid, the Clown’s Afraid Too
    9:29
  4. 4.
    Taurus in the Arena of Life
    4:21
  5. 5.
    Hobo Ho
    10:11
  6. 6.
    The Chill of Death
    7:41
  7. 7.
    The I of Hurricane Sue
    10:09

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