Let My Children Hear Music

Let My Children Hear Music
Studio album by Charles Mingus
Released	1972
Recorded	September 23 – November 18, 1971
Genre	Avant-garde jazz
Length	59:33
Label	Columbia
Producer	Teo Macero
Charles Mingus chronology
Charles Mingus with Orchestra (1971) Let My Children Hear Music (1972) Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (1972)

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Let My Children Hear Music is an album released by Columbia Records in 1972 of music by composer Charles Mingus. The music is scored for large jazz orchestra and Mingus worked with several arrangers, orchestrators and conductors, most notably Sy Johnson and Alan Raph, to realize some of his most ambitious compositions. In the original liner notes, Mingus described it as "the best album I have ever made".

Track listing

All tracks composed by Charles Mingus.

1. "The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jiveass Slippers" – 9:34
2. "Adagio ma Non Troppo" – 8:22
3. "Don't Be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too" – 9:26
4. "Taurus in the Arena of Life" – 4:17
5. "Hobo Ho" – 10:07
6. "The Chill of Death" – 7:38
7. "The I of Hurricane Sue" – 10:09