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| Artist: Charles Mingus Title: Mingus Ah Um Date: 195? Label: Columbia Records CS 8171 Photo By: Herb Snitzer
Notes: With copious liner notes by Diane Dorr-Dorynek this record is a delight in its music, its detailed information on each of the players and its package. The music that Mingus and his bass brings to us varies from song to song. Soft, sad, sometimes quiet and staggering about talking to itself in a slightly drunken lisp. Next it's alive, awake and ready to take o the daylight and all its minions. Poetry for the soul, for dreams as well as that half awake feeling right before conscious awareness sets in. When the soloist steps up to the mic you don't get any sense of self interest, of ego. What you get is the feeling that the player is being buoyed by the surrounding musicians and only acts to highlight the whole of the piece. The cover art is geometric in form and modern in style. I'm not certain what it is to represent, but after repeated fits of staring I'm prepared to say I like it. I know that this has been released on CD and should be on the shelf of any jazz lover out there.
Line Up: Charles Mingus
Track Listing Side 1
Better Git It In Your Soul Side 2 |
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