Sing Me a Song of Songmy
by Freddie Hubbard
- Type: Album
- Released: August 1971
- Label: Atlantic
- Country: United States
- Length: 36:03
- Community rating: 4.25/5 from 5 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Sing Me a Song of Songmy' subtitled "A Fantasy For Electromagnetic Tape," is an experimental album-length composition by 陌lhan Mimaro臒lu featuring Freddie Hubbard. Integrating Hubbard's jazz quintet (with Junior Cook, Kenny Barron, Art Booth, and Louis Hayes) with a chorus, strings, poetry recitations, organ, and tape-based musique concr猫te elements, the work explores a unique sonic landscape. This experimental fusion creates a complex and atmospheric tapestry of sound that blends jazz improvisation with avant-garde compositional techniques.
Genres
Descriptors: political, anti-war, conceptual, powerful, suite
Tracklist
- Threonody for Sharon Tate (2:02)
- This Is Combat I Know (8:57)
- The Crowd (7:03)
- What a Good Time for a Kent State (1:27)
- Monodrama (2:54)
- Black Soldier (2:19)
- Interlude I (5:48)
- And yet There Could Be Love (4:28)
- Postlude (1:05)
Credits
- Freddie Hubbard - primary artist, read by [reciters], trumpet, flugelhorn [fluegelhorn]
- Ilhan Mimaroglu - primary artist, composed by, arranged by, mixed by [mix components & final mixes], producer [realized by], synthesizer [synthesized sounds], sounds [processed sounds], text by
- The Barnard-Columbia Chorus - chorus
- Daniel Paget - conductor [chorus]
- Arif Mardin - conductor, organ [hammond]
- Loring Eutemey - design [album]
- Gene Orloff - directed by [string orchestras under the direction of]
- Selwart Clarke - directed by [string orchestras under the direction of]
- Juini Booth - double bass [bass]
- Louis Hayes - drums
- Bob Liftin - engineer [freddie hubbard and his quintet]
- Gene Paul - engineer [instrumental & choral overdub engineer]
- Lew Hahn - engineer [instrumental & choral overdub engineer]
- George Piros - lacquer cut by, mastered by [mastering engineer]
- Nh膩 Kh锚 - liner notes [english version of "lullaby for a child in war"], read by [reciters]
- Tal芒t Sait Halman - liner notes [poems translated by]
- Pablo Picasso - painting [cover painting "massacre in korea"]
- Raymond Ross - photography by [backliner photo]
- Kenny Barron - piano
- Charles Grau - read by [reciters]
- G眉ng枚r Bozkurt - read by [reciters]
- Mary Ann Hoxworth - read by [reciters]
- Junior Cook - tenor saxophone
- Faz谋l H眉sn眉 Da臒larca - text by [poems by]