Charles Mingus, The Clown - 40m 43s

Tracks & Durations

1. Haitian Fight Song	12:02
2. Blue Cee	7:54
3. Reincarnation Of A Lovebird	8:34
4. The Clown	12:09

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Review

The Mingus aggregate that recorded this set lived by the perforations that saxophonist Shafi Hadi sent toward Jimmy Knepper's slippery trombone. If the arrangements for the horns sound Ellingtonian, they're scripted to do so. Mingus played temperately but importantly off the Duke's model for sectional playing here. And Mingus's bass was as wild as ever, especially on the intro to "Haitian Fight Song," which goes at a slow churn here. Hadi and Knepper sound more mainstream than, say, some of Mingus's other brass-reeds combos, but Wade Legge's strange piano voicings created a stormy harmonic frame for the band to thrive in. The title tune may be Mingus's most oddball early composition, with Jean Shepherd narrating a fictional tale of a performing clown as the band mimics and comments on the spoken word. --Andrew Bartlett

Other Versions

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The Clown

Tracks: 4, Disk length: 40m 43s

The Clown

Tracks: 4, Disk length: 40m 49s (+0m 6s)

The Clown

Tracks: 6 (+2 tracks), Disk length: 56m 52s (+16m 9s)

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