Let My Children Hear Music

Independent shop in BallardDirections

Available from Light in the Attic Records when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

On the original LP issued by Columbia, Mingus thanked producer Teo Macero for “his untiring efforts in producing the best album I have ever made.” From his deathbed in Mexico in 1979 he sent a message to Sy Johnson (who was responsible for many of the arrangements on the album), saying that Let My Children Hear Music was the record he liked most from his career. Although Mingus’ small-group recordings are the ones most often cited as his premier works, this album does, in fact, rank at the top o