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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 5099706551225 Label: Sony Jazz Manufacturer: Sony Jazz Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Sony Jazz Release Date: February 08, 1999 Studio: Sony Jazz Sales Rank: 6781
Amazon.co.uk Review: Mercurial bassist and bandleader Charles Mingus was signed to Columbia Records for the briefest of time during 1959. His Columbia recordings, however, remain some of the most inspired, mood-jumping jazz in history. The flowing sadness of "Goodbye Porkpie Hat" (unedited here for the first time on CD!) rings like a funeral chorus that pitches headlong into a celebration of Lester Young's life and improvising flexibility, rather than his death. And there's the funky furnace blast of "Boogie Stop Shuffle" (also unedited!), which reaches its glory with Booker Ervin's Texas tenor sax, wrapped tight in bluesy tone. With the index of emotions captured, these songs nail why Mingus is possibly the most relevant jazzer for the 1990s generation. He swings and shouts and hollers and somersaults. His tunes either induce foot-stomping with their intensity or reach for poignant yearning with their lyrical tapestry of orchestral colors. --Andrew Bartlett
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Rating: - unbeatable mingus selection!
This is a rarity - a Mingus album with no duff tracks at all - everything is spot-on.The eclecticism of the music and its execution are breathtaking - if you need music to wake you up, try Boogie Stop Shuffle (so that's where they got the Mission Impossible theme from!).The gentler side of Mingus emerges beautifully on the slower tracks such as Pork Pie Hat.As for the recording - how did they manage such stunning sound? OK,it's remastered, but compare it to Monk CDs from the same time and it leaves ... Read More
Rating: - which album has the song right ritious on it??
Help its not a review I am offering BUT I need to know which Mingus cd has the 'Right ritious' song /music on it.
I heard it on the radio the other night, don't know any thing about Mingus but it blew me away. Not even sure I have got the name of the song right. Very jazzy upbeat don't think there were any voices on it can any one help me?? is there a way get the list if songs on the albums up on the screen using Amazon so I can search it out. Help1
Rating: - Essential
In a era that produced such original composers as Thelonious Monk and Herbie Nichols , Mingus' approach to composition always seemed more organic and embedded deeper within the roots of jazz than these contemporaries. (Nichols, in particular, had the musical knowledge to look outside of jazz for inspiration.) This is largely compensated by the sheer physical emotion of the music that largely consisted of material based upon the blues. The impact of Mingus is immediate and passionate. On top of this, ... Read More
Rating: - Mingus at his best
Not much more to say than - Buy this album! - Mingus is really at his very best here, quality of the recording is breathtaking, close your eyes, light a cigar and drift off to Chicago!
Rating: - A must have jazz album
This rates as one of my top five Jazz albums of all time. A mix of longer structured pieces with a mid-sized band but tinged with bop-like improvisation and character. If you know all the classics (the best of Miles, Ellington et al) and are looking for something as good that's a little less well known this is certainly one to go for.
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