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George Adams-Dannie Richmond: More Sightings (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 06, 09

No, this was not a Charles Mingus tribute band. Mingus Dynasty had taken on that responsibility right after Mingus's...

Charles Mingus: Haitian Fight Song (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Charles Mingus, by Herb Snitzer It’s difficult not to think of that Volkswagen commercial as Charles Mingus re...

Charles Mingus: Tijuana Gift Shop (Rating: 83/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Mingus’s music often proclaims its own biting and intense vernacular. This quirky melody, with a sharp rip to its hig...

Charles Mingus: Los Mariachis (Rating: 83/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

Inspired by street musicians in Tijuana, “Los Mariachis” employs a suite-like structure that simulates a walking tour...

Thad Jones & Mel Lewis: Tiptoe (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

Thad Jones was arguably the most consistently interesting big band arranger of the 1960s and 1970s, and “Tiptoe” is o...

Charles Mingus: Celia (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

Celia Zaentz was the second wife of Charles Mingus and co-founder, with her husband and Max Roach, of Debut Records, ...

Charles Mingus: Tensions (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

“Moods,” “contrasts” and “changes” are a few words that have taken on elemental significance in Mingus’ song titles, ...

Charles Mingus: Ecclusiastics (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

Kirk’s tenure with Mingus lasted only a few months, but the relationship was sympathetic and yielded a classic record...

Charles Mingus: Moanin' (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Unlike Bobby Timmons' righteous "Moanin'" recorded the previous year by The Jazz Messengers, Mingus's "Moanin'" is te...

Charles Mingus: Flamingo (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

It would be difficult to get to the heart of what makes this track so special to me. The programmatic nature of the c...

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: Half-Mast Inhibition (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Mingus began "Half-Mast Inhibition" at age 18, but left it unfinished for 20 years. As tempting as it might be to cal...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL 'THIRD STREAM' PERFORMANCES

A few years after longtime Metropolitan Opera French hornist Gunther Schuller assisted in Miles Davis's Birth of the ...

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...

Benny Carter: Central City Sketches (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 08, 07

Benny Carter was six months shy of his 80th birthday when he debuted this extended composition at a "standing room on...

Gil Evans: La Nevada (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 15, 08

Gil Evans was always adept at the “less is more” theory. One year before this recording, he issued Great Jazz Standar...

Gil Evans: La Nevada (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 24, 08

“La Nevada” is Spanish for “Snowfall,” bandleader Claude Thornhill’s theme. Yet in contrast to the airtight orchestra...

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...

Eric Dolphy: Body & Soul (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music July 02, 09

A recording that features Eric Dolphy and Charles Mingus in the company of Roy Eldridge and Jo Jones is worth any amo...

A Fitting Epitaph to Mingus's Big Score posted in The Jazz.com Blog August 18, 09

When jazz fans discuss the really big compositions of the past, a small number of controversial classics dominate the...

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