The Clown

Album by Charles Mingus

The Clown is a studio album by American jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus, released in 1957. The album blends hard bop, blues and early avant-garde jazz with theatrical ensemble arrangements, rhetorical solos and shifting tempos, illustrating Mingus's evolving compositional focus and his development as a bandleader in the late 1950s.
First released: August 1957

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Haitian Fight Song
    12:02
  2. 2.
    Blue Cee
    7:53
  3. 3.
    Reincarnation of a Lovebird
    8:34
  4. 4.
    The Clown
    12:11

Credits