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Sing Me a Song of Songmy is an album-length composition by avant-garde Turkish composer Ilhan Mimaroglu, released in 1971. Principal performers include jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and Mimaroglu himself. The piece includes a chorus, strings, recitations of poems by Fazil Husnu Daglarca and other texts, organists and tape-based musique concrète, as well as Hubbard’s jazz quintet. It is considered as one of Hubbard’s most experimental albums.
PERSONNEL:
Freddie Hubbard - (trumpet, flugelhorn)
Junior Cook - (tenor sax)
Kenny Barron - (piano)
İlhan Mimaroğlu - (synthesizer)
Art Booth - (bass)
Louis Hayes - (drums)
Tracklist
Sing Me A Song Of Songmy, Part I ...... (19:43)
Aa. Threnody For Sharon Tate
Ab. This Is Combat, I Know
Ac. The Crowd
Ad. What A Good Time For A Kent State
Sing Me A Song Of Songmy, Part II ...... (21:15)
Ba. Monodrama
Bb. Black Soldier
Bc. Interlude I
Bd. Interlude II
Be.And Yet, There Could Be Love
Bf. Postlude