Let My Children Hear Music

Let My Children Hear Music
Let My Children Hear Music
Studio album by Charles Mingus
Released	January/February 1972
Recorded	September 23 – November 18, 1971
Genre	Avant-garde jazz, third stream
Length	59:33
Label	Columbia
Producer	Teo Macero
Charles Mingus chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[3]

Let My Children Hear Music is an album released by Columbia Records in 1972 of music by composer Charles Mingus, produced by Teo Macero. The music is scored for large jazz orchestra and Mingus worked with several arrangers, orchestrators and conductors, most notably Sy Johnson and Alan Raph, to realize some of his most ambitious compositions. In the original liner notes, Mingus described it as "the best album I have ever made".

Mingus was nominated for the 1973 Grammy Award for Best Album Notes (Non-Classical) for the album, losing to Tom T. Hall for Tom T. Hall's Greatest Hits.

Track listing[]

All tracks composed by Charles Mingus.

"The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jiveass Slippers" – 9:34
"Adagio ma Non Troppo" – 8:22
"Don't Be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too" – 9:26
"Taurus in the Arena of Life" – 4:17 (on CD reissue)
"Hobo Ho" – 10:07
"The Chill of Death" – 7:38
"The I of Hurricane Sue" – 10:09

Personnel[]

The soloists are listed below:^[4]

Lonnie Hillyer - trumpet
Julius Watkins - French horn
Bobby Jones - tenor saxophone
Joe Wilder - trumpet
Charles McCracken - cello
Charles McPherson - alto saxophone
James Moody - tenor saxophone
Sir Roland Hanna - piano
Snooky Young - lead trumpet throughout
Dannie Richmond - drums

References[]

^ Billboard Mar 18, 1972
^ Olewnick, Brian (2011). "Let My Children Hear Music - Charles Mingus | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 141. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Booklet from 1992 Columbia Legacy CD

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[1] Billboard Mar 18, 1972

[2] Olewnick, Brian (2011). "Let My Children Hear Music - Charles Mingus | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 13 August 2011.

[RSJRG-3] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 141. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

[4] Booklet from 1992 Columbia Legacy CD

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Studio albums	The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus Jazz Composers Workshop Pithecanthropus Erectus The Clown East Coasting Mingus Three Weary Blues A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry Mingus Ah Um Blues & Roots Mingus Dynasty Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus Pre-Bird Mingus Oh Yeah Tijuana Moods Money Jungle The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Tonight at Noon Mingus Plays Piano Blue Bird Pithycanthropus Erectus Let My Children Hear Music Mingus Moves Changes One Changes Two Three or Four Shades of Blues His Final Work Cumbia & Jazz Fusion Something Like a Bird Charles Mingus with Orchestra Reincarnation of a Lovebird
Live albums	Mingus at the Bohemia (1956) Jazz Portraits: Mingus in Wonderland (1959) The Complete Town Hall Concert (1962) The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach (1964) Astral Weeks (1964) Town Hall Concert (1964) Revenge! (1964) The Great Concert of Charles Mingus (1964) Mingus in Europe Volume I (1964) Mingus in Europe Volume II (1964) Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop (1964) Mingus at Monterey (1964) My Favorite Quintet (1965) Music Written for Monterey 1965 (1965) Charles Mingus Sextet In Berlin (1970) Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (1972) Mingus at Antibes (1974) Mingus at Carnegie Hall (1974) Cornell 1964 (2007)
Books	Beneath the Underdog (1971 autobiography)
Related	Discography Mingus Big Band Mingus Dynasty Sue Mingus Jazz at Massey Hall (1953) Weary Blues (1958) Newport Rebels (1960) Money Jungle (1962) Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1964) Mingus (1979) Epitaph (1990) Mingus: Charlie Mingus 1968 Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog (1998 documentary) Mingus Big Band Live at Jazz Standard

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Bebop Revisited! (1964) Con Alma! (1965) The Quintet/Live! (1966) From This Moment On! (1968) Horizons (1968) McPherson's Mood (1969) Charles McPherson (1971) Siku Ya Bibi (Day of the Lady) (1972) Today's Man (1973) Beautiful! (1975) Live in Tokyo (1976) New Horizons (1977) Free Bop! (1978) First Flight Out (1994) Come Play with Me (1995) Manhattan Nocturne (1997)
With Charles Mingus	The Complete Town Hall Concert (1962) Music Written for Monterey 1965 (1965) My Favorite Quintet (1965) Charles Mingus in Paris: The Complete America Session (1970) Charles Mingus Sextet In Berlin (1970) Let My Children Hear Music (1971) Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (1972) Mingus at Carnegie Hall (1974)
With others	Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1963) Just Be Bop (Toshiko Akiyoshi, 1980) For Sure! (Kenny Drew, 1978) Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall (Clint Eastwood, 1996) The Many Faces of Art Farmer (1964) Newer Than New (Barry Harris, 1961) Bull's Eye! (Barry Harris, 1968) Cello Again (Sam Jones, 1976) Boppin' & Burnin' (Don Patterson, 1968) Funk You! (Don Patterson, 1968) Bird Lives! (Red Rodney, 1973) Impact (Charles Tolliver, 1975)