“When Mr. Mingus first asked me to write a review of the
music he composed for this record, I was astonished and told him so. I said I
thought I was competent enough as a psychologist but that my interest in music
was only average and without any technical background. Mr Mingus laughed and
said he didn’t care, that if I heard his music I’d understand…
… Mr Mingus thinks this is his best record. It may very well
be his best to date for his present stage of development as other records were
in the past. It must be emphasized that Mr Mingus is not yet complete. He is
still in a process of change and personal development. Hopefully the
integration in society will keep pace with his. One must continue to expect
more surprises from him.”
Edmund
Pollock, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist.
“I wrote the music for dancing and listening. It is true
music with much and many of my meanings. It is my living epitaph from birth til
the day I first heard of Bird and Diz.”
Charles
Mingus.
Words within quotation-marks are taken out of context with
each other from liner notes for Mingus’s 1963 album “The Black Saint and the
Sinner Lady.”
I wonder why nobody has taken this music and choreographed a modern ballet to the score.
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