Solo Dancer (Stop! Look! And Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney!)
Context
Solo Dancer is the first track of Charles Mingus's The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, recorded on 20 January 1963 for Impulse! with an eleven-piece orchestra. The album forms a continuous composition in four tracks and six movements, written in part as a ballet.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Hard bop, Third stream. Among the origins and influences of Hard bop: Blues, spirituals, work songs, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).
By the same artist
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- Ecclusiastics
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