Product Code: 4260019715197
Artist: Charles Mingus
Origin: USA
Label: Speakers Corner Records (2016)
Format: LP
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Condition:
Cover: M
Record: M
Genre: Jazz N

The Clown

Sealed - Brand new Album, Reissue, Remastered, Mono, 180g vinyl.

The Clown is an album by Charles Mingus, released in September 1957 on Atlantic Records as SD-1260.[1][2] It is the follow-up to 1956's Pithecanthropus Erectus and features the improvised narration of Jean Shepherd. A deluxe edition of The Clown was issued in 2000 on Rhino featuring two bonus tracks. All the tracks were recorded on March 12, 1957, except for "The Clown", recorded on February 13 of the same year.

According to Nat Hentoff's liner notes, Mingus explained why he chose those four tracks for the album: "I selected these four over two others that were more intricate because some of those guys had been saying that I didn't swing. So I made some that did. This album also has the first blues I've made on record."

11:57
A2   Blue Cee
Written-ByCharles Mingus
7:48
B1   Reincarnation Of A Lovebird
Written-ByCharles Mingus
8:31
B2   The Clown
Written-ByCharles Mingus

12:29

A1   Haitian Fight Song
Written-ByCharles Mingus