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Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus is a jazz album by Charles Mingus, which was recorded in two sessions (January and September ) in 1963 in a full orchestra and published. The first session took place simultaneously with the recording of Mingus ' masterpiece The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady.

The compositions of the album

II B. S. - Mingus says to B. S. within the meaning of " dedicated B.S. ," wherein B.S. for " bullshit " (in German about " bullshit ") stands. The main soloists are Booker Ervin and Jaki Byard. The piece is musically closely related to Haitian Fight Song from 1955, but it has a much faster pace.

IX means both Love My ex- love and a love that I finished that I " made ​​-x - te". The title is a further development of Nouroog (also Neuroog ) of 1957., He should express Mingus ' emotions in memory of a young woman.

Celia, one of the classic Mingus compositions, is a portrait of Mingus ' ex-wife Celia Nielson. Main soloist is alto saxophonist Charlie Mariano. He plays it in the style of Johnny Hodges: Mingus wrote the portrait in the spirit of Duke Ellington. Quentin Jackson plays the role of Ellington trombonist Lawrence Brown in his part.

Mood Indigo was not written as a single work of the board of Mingus himself, but by Duke Ellington, Irving Mills and Barney Bigard ( 1931). Here Charles Mingus expresses his admiration for Duke Ellington, whose first popular song this was. Mingus leaves these jazz classics in the original version.

Better Get Hit In Yo 'Soul in 6/8-measure a typical example of the gospel -influenced sound is Mingus: "The piece evaporated, boils and hisses normal. Mingus fires the band by shouting at, and it is a pleasure to hear when the band returns to the circuit in a two-beat feel. " (Quoted in Weber / Filtgen )

Theme For Lester Young, better known under the name of Goodbye Pork Pie Hat Mingus had developed in the night during a concert at New York's Half Note club, when he learned of the death of whom he admired tenor saxophonist. "If I had only one word to describe him would be the sensitivity. He towered above all other musicians, but he did not like a gorilla, " Mingus writes in the liner notes (quoted by Nat Hentoff ). This sensitivity should reflect the solo by Booker Ervin.

Hora Decubitus (Latin bed time) - The origins of this composition are in Mingus ' memory of the music of the Savoy Sultans in the 1940s. It includes solos by Booker Ervin, Eric Dolphy and Richard Williams and carries significant features of Mingus composition E 's Flat, Ah 's Flat Too.

All arrangements of the board Bob Hammer has created. The tracks 2 and 3 were recorded pieces on September 20, 1963 on January 20, 1963, the remaining tracks. On the LP has been incorrectly specified that piece 5 is from the January session.

On the CD, a version of Freedom is additional than 8 piece yet published, recites the text on the Mingus. This piece, also on the album Epitaph, originally appeared on the Impulse! Collecting LP The Definite Jazz Scene, Vol 1 (AS 99). In the September session also Ellington's Take the A -Train was also recorded but has not been published.

External links and sources

  • Horst Weber, Gerd Filtgen: Charles Mingus. His life, his music, his records. Oreos, Gauting - book village, undated, ISBN 3-923657-05-6
  • Nat Hentoff: Mingus Mingus Mingus liner notes to Mingus ( Impulse! )
Record label Impulse! Records Genre Dick Hafer Richard Williams (musician) Walter Perkins (musician) Bob Thiele Lawrence Brown (musician) Gospel music Epitaph (Charles Mingus album)
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