A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry
| A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry | ||||
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| Released | May or June 1959 | |||
| Recorded | October 1957 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 57:29 | |||
| Label | Bethlehem | |||
| Producer | Jeff Palo | |||
| Charles Mingus chronology | ||||
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| AllMusic | |
| Los Angeles Times | |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz | |
A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry is an album by the jazz bassist, composer, and band leader Charles Mingus, released by Bethlehem Records in mid-1959. In spite of the title, the album does not contain any poetry. "Scenes in the City", however, includes narration performed by Mel Stewart and written by actor Lonne Elder with assistance from Langston Hughes. The composition "Duke's Choice" re-appears, in updated form, as "I X Love" on the 1963 album Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus. "Nouroog", "Duke's Choice" and "Slippers" form the basis of the suite "Open Letter to Duke" on Mingus Ah Um.
The CD issues of the album include three bonus tracks: the Dizzy Gillespie standard "Woody 'n' You", Charlie Parker's "Billie's Bounce", which is listed as "Bounce" and miscredited to Mingus, and an alternate take of "Slippers".