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Jul 26, 2021 · This 4 x CD set, originally recorded by West German radio for broadcasts in 1964 and 1975 and made available on disc for the first time in 2020, makes a strong claim to be Mingus' best live album.
- Mingus at The Bohemia
- Pithecanthropus Erectus
- The Clown
- Mingus Ah-Um
- Blues & Roots
- Pre – Bird
- The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady
- Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
- Changes One
- Mingus
Before becoming a bandleader, Charles Mingus toured and recorded as a sideman with many of the leading jazz musicians at the time including Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Lionel Hampton and Roy Eldridge. He also performed briefly with Duke Ellingtonbut was allegedly, due to his bad temper, one of the few musicians who got fired by the great compo...
Pithecanthropus Erectus is widely considered as Mingus’ breakthrough album. It’s the first album where he taught all his compositions by ear to the musicians instead of writing them down – an idea coming straight out of his Jazz Workshop concept, which also relies heavily on free and group improvisations. The title track Pithecanthropus Erectus ref...
The Clown is the immediate successor to Pithecanthropus Erectus. Its opening track “The Haitian Fight Song” is the first recorded blues by Mingus and serves as the initial idea to his Blues Albumin 1960. “Blue in Cee” is another heavily swinging blues in the alternating keys of C and Bb. The album also features Mingus’ famous composition “Reincarna...
Mingus Ah-Um may well be Charles Mingus’ most popular album and includes compositions which are now considered jazz classics. In 2012 the album was selected for the Grammy Hall of Fame, receiving 5-star reviews from all major magazines and the Penguin Guide to Jazz calls it “an extended tribute to ancestors”. Mingus honours many of his musical idol...
Atlantic record producer Nesuhi Ertegünsuggested to Mingus that he record an entire Blues album, since some critics had the opinion he wouldn’t swing enough and that Mingus was doing too intellectual, experimental music. He answered: “I was born swinging and clapped my hands in church as a little boy, but I’ve grown up and I like to do things other...
Later called Mingus Revisited, this record has a large personnel and features many well known soloists of the time, such as drummer Max Roach, trumpeter Clark Terry, free jazz legend Eric Dolphy, tenor player Joe Farrell, saxophonist and flautist Yusuf Lateef, trombone player Slide Hampton and pianist Paul Bley. The concept of this album, for Mingu...
“Black Saint is Charles Mingus’ masterpiece“ writes the Penguin Guide to jazz and it certainly is one of the most acclaimed jazz albums in history. On par with “Mingus Ah-Um” it is undoubtedly Mingus’ most celebrated work. Originally Mingus wanted to write a full album of ballet music, which is reflected in its titles. The tunes are all very orches...
Some of this album was recorded during the same session for Black Saint & The Sinner Lady, with Bob Hammer doing arrangements on both. For “Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus” he arranged several previously recorded Charles Mingus songs for a larger 12-piece band but, most likely due to rights issues, these compositions have been renamed on this al...
After encountering health issues in the mid 1960s, Mingus had to step back and even take a break from playing for some time. It wasn’t until 1974 that he started a new quintet with his longtime collaborator Dannie Richmond on drums, Don Pullen on piano, George Adams on tenor sax and Jack Wallrath on trumpet. They released two albums, “Changes One” ...
In the mid 1970s Charles Mingus developed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which made it impossible for him to play the double bass. Despite that, he continued composing and, in 1978, started working on a new album with singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. The four new compositions have lyrics written by Joni herself, following a meeting in Mingus’...
- The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (1963) Mingus’ magnum opus is an immersive, obsessive, intense, beautiful and terrifying work of art. Previously written as a ballet, the album consists of one continuous composition divided into four tracks and six movements.
- Mingus Ah Um (1959) If you had to sum up Charles Mingus in one album, it would be Mingus Ah Um. This is the first record where Mingus announced to the world that he’d truly mastered his craft.
- Let My Children Hear Music (1972) The album Mingus referred to as “the best album I have ever made.” Let My Children Hear Music has a bold and ambitious big band masterpiece that is so often overlooked in favour of more of his high-profile hits.
- Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956) Mingus’ breakthrough remains a classic. The title refers to the first human fossil ever found, the Eugène Dubois-discovered Java Man.
May 20, 2022 · Charles Mingus kicks off his wildest album with the honking, raucous, cacophonous “Hog Callin’ Blues” and the record takes many crazy twists and turns from there. Mingus puts down his bass and leads the band from the piano, pounding on the keys and singing and shouting with abandon.
The only Mingus tribute albums recorded during his lifetime were baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams's album, Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus, in 1963, and Joni Mitchell's album Mingus, in 1979.
- Music Division, Library of Congress
- Charles Mingus Collection
Apr 21, 2022 · Mingus’s legacy is best represented by the unruly beauty of his recordings, including “The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady,” a courageous 1963 album filled with the roots of Baptist gospel and...
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As a bandleader, the American jazz bassist Charles Mingus released 51 albums between 1949 and 1977; as a sideman, Mingus appeared on a total of 34 albums. Four albums of his music were released posthumously between 1979 and 1990.
