Ilhan Mimaroglu / Freddie Hubbard Quintet- SING ME A SONG OF SONGMY (A FANTASY FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC TAPE) 1971

Ilhan Mimaroglu / Freddie Hubbard Quintet

SING ME A SONG OF SONGMY (A FANTASY FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC TAPE) 1971

The Personel is: FREDDIE HUBBARD,trumpet & flugelhorn; JUNIOR COOK,tenor saxophone; KENNY BARRON,piano; ART BOOTH,bass; LOUIS HAYES,drums.
THE BARNARD-COLUMBIA CHORUS;DANIEL PAGET, conductor.
String orchestra under the direction ofGene Orloff and Selwart Clarke; ARIF MARDIN, conductor & Hammond organ
RECITERS listed in Track listings.
Synthesized and processed sounds,Mix components and final mixes realized by Ilhan Mimaroglu.

Some quotes from the gatefold (enclosed):
"The eclectic approach provides the essential condition for creative freedom".
"You can't write music right unless you know how the man that'll play it plays poker" -Duke Ellington
"I'm one of the world's greatest trumpet players".-Frederick DeWayne Hubbard, introducing himself in a television interview.
"Criminology doesn't pay".
"Before asking what you can do for your country, ask what your country has done for you".

SING ME A SONG OF SONGMY (A FANTASY FOR ELECRTOMAGNETIC TAPE)

Side One:

SING ME A SONG OF SONGMY, Part 1 (time: 19:43)

(a) THRENODY FOR SHARON TATE
(Prelude & Comment)
The Quintet, string orchestra, synthessized & processed sounds,Mary Ann Hoxworth, reciter
(b) THIS IS COMBAT,I KNOW
Trumpet,tenor saxophone, piano, string orchestra, synthesized & processed sounds
Fazil Husnu Daglarca's poem 'Poverty', recited by NHA-KHE.
(c) THE CROWD
TheQuintet, string orchestra, chorus, Hammond organ, synthesized & processed sounds.
Quotations from Soren Kierkegaard's essay,'That Individual' recited by Mary Ann Hoxworth, Additional textrecited by Charles Grau, Fazil HusnuDaglarca's quatrain,'Bloodless' recited by Gungor Bozkurt, Musical quotation from Scriabin's 'Etude in B flat minor, Op.8.
(d) WHAT A GOOD TIME FOR A KENT STATE
The Quintet, chorus & string orchestra, Musical quotation from Brahms' 'Ein Deutsches Requiem'.

Side Two:

SING ME A SONG OF SONGMY, Pt.2 (Time: 21:15)

(a) MONODRAMA
Trumpet solo, processed trumpet sounds.
(b) BLACK SOLDIER
String orchestra, processed string and percussion sounds, Fazil Husnu Daglarca's poem, 'Colored Soldier' recited by Freddie Hubbard
(c) INTERLUDE I
The Quintet
(d) INTERLUDE II
Synthesized and processed sounds, chorus, string orchestra, Hammond organ, NHA-KHE's poem,'Lullabye for a Child in War'
recited in Vietnamese by the poet.
(e) AND YET, THERE COULD BE LOVE
Trumpet solo, chorus, string orchestra, synthesized sounds,
Fazil Husnu Daglarca's poem 'Before The Bombs Struck The Dark Breasts' recited by NHA-KHE.
(f) POSTLUDE
Trumpet solo, processed trumpet sounds & synthesized sounds. Final words quoted from a poem by Che Guevara and recited by Gungor Bozkurt.



















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