The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

I mean. It's jazz. Technically accomplished jazz. But not my thing.

These reviews are for me, not for others. And aren't even really reviews. Oh well

The jazz albums included here never fail to awe and delight. What a spectacular soundscape. Amazing.

Jazz volgens het vooroordeel: (schijnbaar!) zonder vooropgezet plan gewoon wat doen. Waardoor er soms een verrassende harmonie ontstaat, maar soms er juist geen enkele sprake is van harmonie. En dat laatste komt bij mij het hardste binnen. Versterkt door op sommige momenten een volstrekt willekeurig geluid.

I'd appreciate it more in the right setting, say maybe in a late night cocktail bar.
Tuesday morning getting ready for work was not my right setting for a first listen.

Lazy, sexy jazz that blows hot and cold, like a love affair. Just when you’re certain, the rug is pulled from under your feet, upending you and calling into question everything you thought you knew.

Masterpiece 5*

Like this came out same year as Freewheelin' Dylan's thing, and I am *way* more interested in the musical ambition of this. Late jazz in general goes to really interesting places!

What is this tim signature in the first song? the second and thrid track kind of blur but this 4th track is pretty cool.

Amazing album. I love how dark and psychologically brooding it is. Definitely need to get the vinyl. Never mind I actually just bought it ope.

I'm glad this project is helping me to really expand my horizons... I'll be honest, I thought the first track was not great and really put me off... but later on it's very listenable and I had a good time with it. I'm still not a jazz man so I'm never going to rate this too highly, but maybe I appreciate it a little bit more now.

Worth listening to, but my undiscerning hear has a hard time appreciating was is/isn't great jazz. Do enjoy as background music though. 2.5/5

so. much. jazz. kinda found the latin influence in it interesting

I admire the brave vision of scale and structure in this album, but when it comes to jazz, I tend to like smaller arrangements where individual players are easier to isolate. I can definitely see this album working well as the soundtrack to an avant garde dance performance, as was the supposed intent, but it's not something that I'd really want to listen to on its own. I'm definitely more of a "Mingus Ah Um" fan.

Pitäis varmaan kuunnella uudestaan. Ei kovin vaikeaa ja aika jees jazzia. Laitetaan 3/5

Only four (very long) songs.
Still not my thing, but I can certainly appreciate the skill of the musicians involved.

I had a viscerally negative reaction to this album on first listen. Discord. Chaos. Any time I found myself enjoying it, these intruded. I started writing up a very negative review while listening for a second time, debating whether to give it 1 or 2 stars. At the same time, I started reading up about the background and intentions of the album. About Mingus' life, his anger, his experiences with racism, his illness and death. I found myself appreciating Side 2 (Modes D - F). It still had much of the discord and chaos that was making me uncomfortable, but I could at least appreciate the mastery and composition and the moods it was meant to evoke. I went back to the beginning of the album, closely listening with new ears and started to recognize why this is considered a jazz masterpiece. By the time I returned to Modes D - F, now truly focused on the music, I was blown away. This is a challenging album and clearly isn't background music like so much jazz - it demands attention. It demands struggle. It's worth it and I stand corrected.

Debauched jazz; runs the gamut of emotions while being sonically perfect. Fuckin a.

Más jazz interesante. 4 temas, 2 por cada cara del vinilo, y casi 40 minutos de música pensada para la danza como indican los propios nombres de pista.