Track Listings

Disc: 1

1 Solo Dancer (Stop! And Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney!)

2 Duet Solo Dancers (Hearts' Beat Shadens in Physical Embraces)

3 Group Dancers (Soul Fusion) [freewoman and Oh, This Freedom's Slave Cries]

Disc: 2

1 01. "Mode D - Trio and Group Dancers"

Product description

The album was recorded in January 1963 by an eleven-piece band. Mingus has called the album's orchestral style 'ethnic folk-dance music'. Mingus's perfectionism led to extensive use of studio overdubbing techniques. The album features liner notes written by Mingus and his then-psychotherapist, Edmund Pollock. The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is often characterized by jazz and music critics as one of Mingus's two major masterworks (the other being 'Mingus Ah Um' [1959]) and has frequently ranked highly on lists of the best albums of all time.