Sing Me a Song of Songmy (subtitled "A Fantasy For Electromagnetic Tape") is an album by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard

Freddie Hubbard

Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on...

 and Ilhan Mimaroglu

Ilhan Mimaroglu

İlhan Mimaroğlu is a musician and composer. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey on March 11, 1926, the son of the famous architect Mimar Kemaleddin Bey depicted on the Turkish lira banknotes, denomination 20 lira, of the 2009 E-9 emission. He graduated from Galatasaray High School in 1945 and the...

 released in 1971.

It was Hubbard's third album released on the Atlantic

Atlantic Records

Atlantic Records is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and jazz...

 label and features performances by Hubbard, tenor saxophonist Junior Cook

Junior Cook

Herman "Junior" Cook was a hard bop tenor saxophone player.-Biography:Cook was born in Pensacola, Florida. After playing with Dizzy Gillespie in 1958, Cook gained some fame for his longtime membership in the Horace Silver Quintet ; when he and Blue Mitchell left that band, Cook played in...

, pianist Kenny Barron

Kenny Barron

Kenny Barron , is an American jazz pianist. He is the younger brother of tenor saxophonist Bill Barron, and known for his lyrical, adaptive style.-Biography:...

, bassist Art Booth

Jiunie Booth

Arthur Edward Booth , known as Jiunie, Junie, Junius, Joony, Juini, etc., is an American jazz double-bassist.Booth began playing piano at about age eight, and switched to bass at 12...

 and drummer Louis Hayes

Louis Hayes

Louis Hayes is an American jazz drummer.-Biography:His father played drums and piano and his mother the piano and he refers to the early influence of hearing jazz, especially that of big bands, on the radio...

. The album also features a chorus, strings, recitations of poems by Fazil Husnu Daglarca

Fazil Hüsnü Daglarca

Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca was one the most prolific Turkish poets of the republican Turkey with more than 60 collections of his poems published as of 2007, laureate of the Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Award .-Biography:His purist use of the Turkish language brought a new dimension to...

 and other texts, organists and tape-based musique concrète

Musique concrète

Musique concrète is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The compositional material is not restricted to the inclusion of sounds derived from musical instruments or voices, nor to elements traditionally thought of as "musical"...

. It is one of Hubbard's most experimental albums.

Track listing

All compositions by Ilhan Mimaroglu

PART I

1. "Threnody for Sharon Tate" - 2:04
2. "This Is Combat I Know" - 8:56
3. "The Crowd" - 7:03
4. "What a Good Time for Kent State" - 1:28

PART II

1. "Monodrama" - 2:54
2. "Black Soldier" - 2:19
3. "Interlude I" - 5:48
4. "Interlude II" - 4:30
5. "And Yet There Could Be Love" - 4:28
6. "Postlude" - 1:05

Personnel

• Freddie Hubbard
  Freddie Hubbard
  Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on...
  
   - trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
  , flugelhorn (#1, 3, 4, 7), recitation (6)
• Junior Cook
  Junior Cook
  Herman "Junior" Cook was a hard bop tenor saxophone player.-Biography:Cook was born in Pensacola, Florida. After playing with Dizzy Gillespie in 1958, Cook gained some fame for his longtime membership in the Horace Silver Quintet ; when he and Blue Mitchell left that band, Cook played in...
  
   - tenor saxophone (1-4, 7)
• Kenny Barron
  Kenny Barron
  Kenny Barron , is an American jazz pianist. He is the younger brother of tenor saxophonist Bill Barron, and known for his lyrical, adaptive style.-Biography:...
  
   - piano (1-4, 7)
• Art Booth
  Jiunie Booth
  Arthur Edward Booth , known as Jiunie, Junie, Junius, Joony, Juini, etc., is an American jazz double-bassist.Booth began playing piano at about age eight, and switched to bass at 12...
  
   - bass
  Double bass
  The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
  
   (1, 3, 4, 7)
• Louis Hayes
  Louis Hayes
  Louis Hayes is an American jazz drummer.-Biography:His father played drums and piano and his mother the piano and he refers to the early influence of hearing jazz, especially that of big bands, on the radio...
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
   (1, 3, 4, 7)
• Ilhan Mimaroglu
  Ilhan Mimaroglu
  İlhan Mimaroğlu is a musician and composer. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey on March 11, 1926, the son of the famous architect Mimar Kemaleddin Bey depicted on the Turkish lira banknotes, denomination 20 lira, of the 2009 E-9 emission. He graduated from Galatasaray High School in 1945 and the...
  
   - synthesizer
  Synthesizer
  A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
  
  , processed sound
• Arif Mardin
  Arif Mardin
  Arif Mardin was a Turkish-American music producer, who worked with hundreds of artists across many different styles of music, including jazz, rock, soul, disco, and country...
  
   - organ, conductor
• Barnard-Columbia Chorus directed by Daniel Paget
• Strings directed by Gene Orlo and Selwart Clarke
• Mary Ann Hoxworth (1, 3), Nha-Khe (3, 8), Charles Grau (3), Gungor Bozkurt (3, 10) - recitation