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Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus is a jazz album by Charles Mingus that was recorded in 1963 with a large cast in two sessions (January and September) and released in early 1964. The first session took place at the same time as the recording of Mingus' masterpiece The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady .
Track list
With the exception of Mood Indigo , all compositions are by Charles Mingus .
- page 1
- II BS - 4:43
- IX Love - 7:00
- Celia - October 6th
- Mood Indigo ( Duke Ellington , Barney Bigard ) - 4:37
- Page 2
- Better Get Hit In Yo 'Soul - 6:30 am
- Theme For Lester Young - 5:36
- Hora Decubitus - 4:40
- Bonus track (CD)
- Freedom - 5:10
The compositions
II BS - Mingus means to BS in the sense of "dedicated BS", where BS stands for "Bullshit" (in German roughly: "Bockmist"). The main soloists are Booker Ervin and Jaki Byard . Musically, the piece is closely related to the Haitian Fight Song from 1955, but has a significantly higher tempo.
IX Love means both my ex-love and a love that I ended, that I "out-x-th" . The title is a further development of Nouroog (also Neuroog ) from 1957. It is supposed to express Mingus' emotions in memory of a young woman.
One of the classic Mingus compositions, Celia is a portrait of Mingus' ex-wife Celia Nielson. The 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 takes on the role of Ellington trombonist Lawrence Brown .
Mood Indigo is the only work on the record that was not written by 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 this jazz classic in its original version.
Better Get Hit In Yo 'Soul in 6/8 time is a typical example of the Gospel- influenced Mingus sound: “The piece literally steams, boils and hisses. Mingus cheers the band on with shouts, and it is a pleasure to hear when the band returns to a two-beat feeling at the end. "(Quoted from Weber / Filtgen)
Mingus developed Theme For Lester Young , better known as Goodbye Pork Pie Hat , during a concert at New York's Half Note Club the night he learned of the death of the tenor saxophonist he admired. “If I had only one word to describe it, it would be sensitivity. He was enthroned above all other musicians, but he didn't do it like a gorilla, ”Mingus writes in the liner notes (quoted from Nat Hentoff). Booker Ervin's solo should reflect this sensitivity.
Hora Decubitus (Latin bedtime ) - The origins of this composition lie in Mingus' memory of the music of the Savoy Sultans in the 1940s. It contains solos by Booker Ervin , Eric Dolphy and Richard Williams and bears clear features of the Mingus composition E's Flat, Ah's Flat Too .
Bob Hammer created all the arrangements on the record . Tracks 2 and 3 were recorded on January 20, 1963, the remaining tracks on September 20, 1963. On the LP it was incorrectly stated that track 5 was from the January session.
A version of Freedom is also published on the CD as an 8th track , on which Mingus also recites the text. This piece, also on the album Epitaph , originally appeared on the Impulse! Collectible LP The Definite Jazz Scene, Vol. 1 (AS 99). In the September session, Ellington's Take the A-Train was also recorded, but not yet released.
reception
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The German-language edition of Rolling Stone magazine chose the album in 2013 in the selection of the 100 best jazz albums at number 80.
Pitchfork lists Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus at number 108 of the 200 best albums of the 1960s.
Web links and sources
- Horst Weber, Gerd Filtgen: Charles Mingus. His life, his music, his records . Oreos, Gauting-Buchendorf, undated, ISBN 3-923657-05-6
- Nat Hentoff : Liner Notes for Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (Impulse!)
Individual evidence
- ^ Charles Mingus Catalog on jazzdisco.org
- ↑ http://mingus.onttonen.info/details/impulse/impd170.html
- ↑ cf. http://www.jazzdisco.org/mingus/dis/c/
- ↑ Review by Steve Huey on allmusic.com (accessed December 20, 2019)
- ↑ Review by John Fordham on theguardian.com (accessed December 20, 2019)
- ↑ Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Jazz Albums . Retrieved November 16, 2016.
- ↑ The 200 Best Albums of the 1960s on pitchfork.com (accessed December 20, 2019)