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- AllMusic5/5
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide4.5/5
- The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings3/4
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Tracklist
6 tracks · 57 min
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The Clown is an album by Charles Mingus recorded and released in 1957 on Atlantic Records as SD-1260. It is the follow-up to 1956's Pithecanthropus Erectus and features the improvised narration of Jean Shepherd. A deluxe edition of The Clown was issued in 2000 on Rhino featuring two bonus tracks. All the tracks were recorded on March 12, 1957, except for "The Clown", recorded on February 13 of the same year. According to Nat Hentoff's liner notes, Mingus explained why he chose those four tracks for the album: "I selected these four over two others that were more intricate because some of those guys had been saying that I didn't swing. So I made some that did. This album also has the first blues I've made on record."
In brief
- When was The Clown released?
- The Clown was released in 1957.
- How many tracks are on The Clown?
- The Clown has 6 tracks, with a runtime of 57 minutes.
- What genre is The Clown?
- The Clown is catalogued under Jazz, Bebop.
- What BPM is The Clown?
- The Clown runs at a median tempo of 136 BPM across its tracks, most often in F minor, measured from audio analysis.
- What albums are similar to The Clown?
- Listeners of The Clown also rate Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane by Thelonious Monk, Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, A Love Supreme by John Coltrane.
The Clown at a glance
- Label
- Atlantic Records
- Produced by
- Nasuhi Ertegün
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