Sing Me a Song of Songmy

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