Mumbles (album)
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| Mumbles | ||||
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| Released | 1966 | |||
| Recorded | 1966 in New York | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Mainstream 56066/S6066 Fontana | |||
| Producer | Bob Shad | |||
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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]
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| Source | Rating |
| 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]