Mumbles (also reissued as Angyumaluma Bongliddleany Nannyany Awhan Yi!) is an album by trumpeter Clark Terry featuring tracks recorded in 1964 and originally released on the Mainstream label.[1][2]

Mumbles
Studio album by
Released1966
Recorded1966 in New York
GenreJazz
LabelMainstream
56066/S6066
Fontana
ProducerBob Shad
Clark Terry chronology
The Power of Positive Swinging
(1965)
Mumbles
(1966)
Gingerbread Men
(1966)

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic     [3]
Allmusic     [4]

Allmusic's Ken Dryden awarded the album 2½ stars and states "Clark Terry launched his "Mumbles" routine (where he delivered semi-coherent vocals interspersed with scat) with two numbers on a studio date for Verve led by Oscar Peterson; this Mainstream LP finds him expanding the concept to album length, with mixed success. Unfortunately, the effort becomes a little too commercial, not only de-emphasizing the jazz element to focus on the vocals, but adding lackluster songs".[3] The retitled rerelease was awarded 4 stars by Richard S. Ginell who commented "As per the weird title, the music within this LP is among the happiest and most lighthearted (perhaps even occasionally light-headed) of Clark Terry's long, happy career".[4]

Track listing

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  1. "The Mumbler Strikes Again" (Clark Terry) - 3:07
  2. "Big Spender" (Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields) - 2:29
  3. "Rum and Mumbles" (Terry, Joe Cain) - 2:50
  4. "The Shadow of Your Smile" (Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) - 2:19
  5. "Mumbles" (Terry) - 2:42
  6. "Grand Dad's Blues" (Terry) - 3:52
  7. "The Cat from Cadiz" (Cain) - 4:35
  8. "Never" (Terry) - 3:37
  9. "I'm Beginning to See the Light" (Duke Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James) - 2:34
  10. "Night Song" (Charles Strouse, Lee Adams) - 2:40
  11. "El Blues Latino" (Cain) - 3:07

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Edwards, D., Callahan, Eyries, P., Watts, R. & Neely, T. Discography of the Mainstream Label (Preview), accessed November 11, 2014
  2. ^ Lord, T., Clark Terry discography, accessed November 11, 2014
  3. ^ a b Dryden K., Mumbles: Allmusic Review accessed November 11, 2014
  4. ^ a b Ginell, R. S. "Angyumaluma Bongliddleany Nannyany Awhan Yi!: Allmusic Review". Retrieved November 11, 2014.