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Charles Mingus & Langston Hughes: Consider Me (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music May 16, 08

"Jazz gives poetry a much wider following," said Langston Hughes in 1958, "and poetry brings jazz the greater respect...

Charles Mingus: All the Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 30, 07

"All of us who stay sane," reflected Charles Mingus after seeking treatment at Bellevue and being locked up for his n...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: KRAZY KATS

"America is a mistake," declared Sigmund Freud after visiting the U.S. in 1909. The contempt was not mutual. With typ...

Charles Mingus: Original Faubus Fables (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 02, 08

In 1957, as a defiant white mob at Little Rock's Central High School chanted "Two, four, six, eight; we don't want to...

Charles Mingus: A Foggy Day (Rating: 82/100) posted in Music December 07, 07

Don't be fooled by the album cover. Max Roach is not on this track. The introduction is promising -- an avant-garde...

Charles Mingus: Original Faubus Fables (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 02, 08

Everyone on my "Desert Island Dozens" list (Ellington, Coleman, Jarrett, Haden, Davis, Monk, Hill, Holland, Rollins) ...

This track review is included in: DESERT ISLAND DOZENS: BEN ALLISON

Ben Allison, recently featured in an interview and concert review on jazz.com, now participates in our "Desert Islan...

Charles Mingus: II B.S. (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

“II B.S.” is a slightly different – shorter and more concentrated – version of “Haitian Fight Song”, which Mingus rec...

Charles Mingus: C Jam Blues (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 28, 09

Jazz composers usually bring their most polished and ambitious scores when they are invited to play at Carnegie Hall....

Charles Mingus: Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

Late in life, Lester Young was asked if any of the myriad younger musicians who copied his style had ever thanked him...

Charles Mingus: Stormy Weather (1960) (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 08, 08

If any jazzman's psyche epitomized "Stormy Weather," it was Charles Mingus's. Which makes this track's tranquility al...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: STORMY WEATHER

Ethel Waters induced "Stormy Weather" in 1933 at the Cotton Club, an oasis of prosperity in Depression- era Harlem wh...

Charles Mingus: Hora Decubitus (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

Mingus was at the peak of his powers in 1963. First he set down his long-form masterpiece, The Black Saint and The Si...

Charles Mingus: Better Git It In Your Soul (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 03, 07

Three 1959 Mingus albums begin with the same Pentecostal pandemonium. February's "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting" (Bl...

Charles Mingus: Self-Portrait in Three Colors (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

We could spend a lot of time unpacking just the title of this song (originally written for Shadows, the directorial d...

Charles Mingus: So Long Eric (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 14, 08

Listening to this performance reminds me of the weight of some of Mingus's compositions. Maybe it's because I've been...

Charles Mingus: I Can't Get Started (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music December 17, 07

A definitive version of a favorite Mingus standard (and staple of his live repertoire), captured in performance at th...

Vienna Art Orchestra: Jelly Roll, But Mingus Rolls Better (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 16, 09

Despite two obscure recordings that preceded it, Concerto Piccolo is widely considered the Vienna Art Orchestra's (VA...

Charles Mingus: Eat That Chicken (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

Many 1950s jazz modernists considered such forebears as Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller old hat. Not Charles M...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ FOR THE BIRDS

It's only fitting. Since birds inspire us with their songs, composers return the favor, dedicating music in every gen...

Charles Mingus: Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

The threat of nuclear annihilation hung over the Space Age like a millennial migraine the morning after 100 consecuti...

Charles Mingus: Track A - Solo Dancer (Stop! Look! and Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney) (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music June 10, 09

The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is one of Charles Mingus’ true masterpieces, highlighting his incredible control ...

Charles Mingus Sextet: Fables of Faubus (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 14, 09

When Jaki played with Charles Mingus’ group in 1964, Mingus gave him a long, unaccompanied solo on “Fables of Faubus,...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JASON MORAN SELECTS 12 CLASSIC JAKI BYARD TRACKS

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Charles Mingus: Ysabel's Table Dance (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 22, 07

Trying to party away the heartache of a failed marriage, Charles Mingus found "not even Tijuana could satisfy." Born ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ EXOTICA

Exotica is armchair tourism. We experience foreign strangeness without the hassles of leaving home. No passports, imm...

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