Charles Mingus Music

Probably no other bassist played as big a role as Charles Mingus did in helping shape modern jazz, and probably no other recording of Mingus defines his jazz quite the way this does. The first time I listened to this piece, I got completely lost and couldn't make any sense of it. The second time too. By the third time I heard it, everything began falling into place, and I was toe tappin' and neck snappin' in beat with the tunes. Foggy day is probably one of the most interesting "songs" on the CD, simply to listen for how each musician makes their instrument sound like something off of a busy, crowded street when traffic is not going smoothly. With Mingus to pull the tune along, the effects are executed very brilliantly, and will have you smiling at their intricacy and cleverness. This isn't the most approachable CD in the jazz pantheon, but I think it is one everyone will eventually "get", so it is worth adding to your jazz collection. (The title line, by the way, is from The Rebel Set in The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 12 (The Rebel Set / Secret Agent Super Dragon / The Starfighters / Parts: The Clonus Horror), where jazz meets B-movie wise-acres and those who know jazz and love B-movies laugh themselves sick.)

A Mingus fan forever, and I catch the new Mingus groups at the Iridium or Dizzy's in NYC often. Never can get enough of his compositions and the sounds of The Mingus Big Band, Mingus Orch. and Mingus Dynasty and all with Sue Mingus's guidance.
Pithecanthropus Erectus was my introduction to Mingus so many years ago,and I have bought just about everything he and the new groups above have released since then.
Impossible to imagine this original, inventive and simply beautiful music on this album was first released 50 years ago. No one, but no one, can create music like this today. Mingus was trully a genius and it seems he is getting more and more recognition of this.
If your just getting into Mingus's music, this album is a must. The playing by Mingus and the other great young, swinging musicians on this date is more than just creative, and each of the players seems to be just perfect for this masterpiece, which contains some of Charles Mingus's best compositions
Atlantic Records, PLEASE RELEASE A RE-MASTERED VERSION OF IT.Done correctly, today's techknowlogy could do wonders for it. So many lesser albums by lesser artist have been re-mastered. WHY NOT THIS!

I sympathize with Charlie, treated by the world as an uninvited guest, he wants to love, but y'all aren't having any of that. Now I'm Mingus at 45, every bit as volatile, every bit as doomed, just---me got no talent----
you should monitor dishwashers and laundresses---
they're watching you!

For those struggling to "connect" with jazz, coming from a pop music sensibility (where one listens for lyrics and melody instead of texture and interplay, etc.)Mingus is a groovy, humorous breakthrough. With this album I was able to bring my soul and mind back to being a child of 6 or 7 and watching Sesame Street in the safe haven presence of my big daddy reading the Sunday paper. Mingus makes music like clowns make animal balloons and magicians pull rabbits out of hats for children's birthday parties, but not in some creepy overacting way, in a very cool, 1960s-70s Sesame Street way, the muppets way. Horns interact like they're loony muppet birds speaking to one another in a comical but beautiful language.... repeating each other's questions as textures shift and change. Best of all is how Mingus connects modern jazz with bebop, big band, and the sound of the blues. He's like a crazy connect the dots painter, linking Louis Armstrong to Charlie Parker to Sun Ra in one crazy technicolor brush stroke. That said, the horns and sirens of Foggy Day are really annoying after 2 seconds and the tambourine in "Love Dance" seems really off sometimes, like some musician's little kid or jazz workshop janitor got in on the scene, picking up the one instrument no one was using. Other than that, this is a masterpiece.

This mini-lp replica sleeve is a real treat for fans as it very faithfully copies in great detail the original lp design. The remastered sound also makes the sound quality of this album a real pleasure to listen to as well. This is a worthwhile addition to any jazz fan's musical library. Recommended.

Probably no other bassist played as big a role as Charles Mingus did in helping shape modern jazz, and probably no other recording of Mingus defines his jazz quite the way this does. The first time I listened to this piece, I got completely lost and couldn't make any sense of it. The second time too. By the third time I heard it, everything began falling into place, and I was toe tappin' and neck snappin' in beat with the tunes. Foggy day is probably one of the most interesting "songs" on the CD, simply to listen for how each musician makes their instrument sound like something off of a busy, crowded street when traffic is not going smoothly. With Mingus to pull the tune along, the effects are executed very brilliantly, and will have you smiling at their intricacy and cleverness. This isn't the most approachable CD in the jazz pantheon, but I think it is one everyone will eventually "get", so it is worth adding to your jazz collection. (The title line, by the way, is from The Rebel Set in The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 12 (The Rebel Set / Secret Agent Super Dragon / The Starfighters / Parts: The Clonus Horror), where jazz meets B-movie wise-acres and those who know jazz and love B-movies laugh themselves sick.)

A Mingus fan forever, and I catch the new Mingus groups at the Iridium or Dizzy's in NYC often. Never can get enough of his compositions and the sounds of The Mingus Big Band, Mingus Orch. and Mingus Dynasty and all with Sue Mingus's guidance.
Pithecanthropus Erectus was my introduction to Mingus so many years ago,and I have bought just about everything he and the new groups above have released since then.
Impossible to imagine this original, inventive and simply beautiful music on this album was first released 50 years ago. No one, but no one, can create music like this today. Mingus was trully a genius and it seems he is getting more and more recognition of this.
If your just getting into Mingus's music, this album is a must. The playing by Mingus and the other great young, swinging musicians on this date is more than just creative, and each of the players seems to be just perfect for this masterpiece, which contains some of Charles Mingus's best compositions
Atlantic Records, PLEASE RELEASE A RE-MASTERED VERSION OF IT.Done correctly, today's techknowlogy could do wonders for it. So many lesser albums by lesser artist have been re-mastered. WHY NOT THIS!

I sympathize with Charlie, treated by the world as an uninvited guest, he wants to love, but y'all aren't having any of that. Now I'm Mingus at 45, every bit as volatile, every bit as doomed, just---me got no talent----
you should monitor dishwashers and laundresses---
they're watching you!

For those struggling to "connect" with jazz, coming from a pop music sensibility (where one listens for lyrics and melody instead of texture and interplay, etc.)Mingus is a groovy, humorous breakthrough. With this album I was able to bring my soul and mind back to being a child of 6 or 7 and watching Sesame Street in the safe haven presence of my big daddy reading the Sunday paper. Mingus makes music like clowns make animal balloons and magicians pull rabbits out of hats for children's birthday parties, but not in some creepy overacting way, in a very cool, 1960s-70s Sesame Street way, the muppets way. Horns interact like they're loony muppet birds speaking to one another in a comical but beautiful language.... repeating each other's questions as textures shift and change. Best of all is how Mingus connects modern jazz with bebop, big band, and the sound of the blues. He's like a crazy connect the dots painter, linking Louis Armstrong to Charlie Parker to Sun Ra in one crazy technicolor brush stroke. That said, the horns and sirens of Foggy Day are really annoying after 2 seconds and the tambourine in "Love Dance" seems really off sometimes, like some musician's little kid or jazz workshop janitor got in on the scene, picking up the one instrument no one was using. Other than that, this is a masterpiece.

This mini-lp replica sleeve is a real treat for fans as it very faithfully copies in great detail the original lp design. The remastered sound also makes the sound quality of this album a real pleasure to listen to as well. This is a worthwhile addition to any jazz fan's musical library. Recommended.

Probably no other bassist played as big a role as Charles Mingus did in helping shape modern jazz, and probably no other recording of Mingus defines his jazz quite the way this does. The first time I listened to this piece, I got completely lost and couldn't make any sense of it. The second time too. By the third time I heard it, everything began falling into place, and I was toe tappin' and neck snappin' in beat with the tunes. Foggy day is probably one of the most interesting "songs" on the CD, simply to listen for how each musician makes their instrument sound like something off of a busy, crowded street when traffic is not going smoothly. With Mingus to pull the tune along, the effects are executed very brilliantly, and will have you smiling at their intricacy and cleverness. This isn't the most approachable CD in the jazz pantheon, but I think it is one everyone will eventually "get", so it is worth adding to your jazz collection. (The title line, by the way, is from The Rebel Set in The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 12 (The Rebel Set / Secret Agent Super Dragon / The Starfighters / Parts: The Clonus Horror), where jazz meets B-movie wise-acres and those who know jazz and love B-movies laugh themselves sick.)

A Mingus fan forever, and I catch the new Mingus groups at the Iridium or Dizzy's in NYC often. Never can get enough of his compositions and the sounds of The Mingus Big Band, Mingus Orch. and Mingus Dynasty and all with Sue Mingus's guidance.
Pithecanthropus Erectus was my introduction to Mingus so many years ago,and I have bought just about everything he and the new groups above have released since then.
Impossible to imagine this original, inventive and simply beautiful music on this album was first released 50 years ago. No one, but no one, can create music like this today. Mingus was trully a genius and it seems he is getting more and more recognition of this.
If your just getting into Mingus's music, this album is a must. The playing by Mingus and the other great young, swinging musicians on this date is more than just creative, and each of the players seems to be just perfect for this masterpiece, which contains some of Charles Mingus's best compositions
Atlantic Records, PLEASE RELEASE A RE-MASTERED VERSION OF IT.Done correctly, today's techknowlogy could do wonders for it. So many lesser albums by lesser artist have been re-mastered. WHY NOT THIS!

I sympathize with Charlie, treated by the world as an uninvited guest, he wants to love, but y'all aren't having any of that. Now I'm Mingus at 45, every bit as volatile, every bit as doomed, just---me got no talent----
you should monitor dishwashers and laundresses---
they're watching you!

For those struggling to "connect" with jazz, coming from a pop music sensibility (where one listens for lyrics and melody instead of texture and interplay, etc.)Mingus is a groovy, humorous breakthrough. With this album I was able to bring my soul and mind back to being a child of 6 or 7 and watching Sesame Street in the safe haven presence of my big daddy reading the Sunday paper. Mingus makes music like clowns make animal balloons and magicians pull rabbits out of hats for children's birthday parties, but not in some creepy overacting way, in a very cool, 1960s-70s Sesame Street way, the muppets way. Horns interact like they're loony muppet birds speaking to one another in a comical but beautiful language.... repeating each other's questions as textures shift and change. Best of all is how Mingus connects modern jazz with bebop, big band, and the sound of the blues. He's like a crazy connect the dots painter, linking Louis Armstrong to Charlie Parker to Sun Ra in one crazy technicolor brush stroke. That said, the horns and sirens of Foggy Day are really annoying after 2 seconds and the tambourine in "Love Dance" seems really off sometimes, like some musician's little kid or jazz workshop janitor got in on the scene, picking up the one instrument no one was using. Other than that, this is a masterpiece.

This mini-lp replica sleeve is a real treat for fans as it very faithfully copies in great detail the original lp design. The remastered sound also makes the sound quality of this album a real pleasure to listen to as well. This is a worthwhile addition to any jazz fan's musical library. Recommended.

Probably no other bassist played as big a role as Charles Mingus did in helping shape modern jazz, and probably no other recording of Mingus defines his jazz quite the way this does. The first time I listened to this piece, I got completely lost and couldn't make any sense of it. The second time too. By the third time I heard it, everything began falling into place, and I was toe tappin' and neck snappin' in beat with the tunes. Foggy day is probably one of the most interesting "songs" on the CD, simply to listen for how each musician makes their instrument sound like something off of a busy, crowded street when traffic is not going smoothly. With Mingus to pull the tune along, the effects are executed very brilliantly, and will have you smiling at their intricacy and cleverness. This isn't the most approachable CD in the jazz pantheon, but I think it is one everyone will eventually "get", so it is worth adding to your jazz collection. (The title line, by the way, is from The Rebel Set in The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 12 (The Rebel Set / Secret Agent Super Dragon / The Starfighters / Parts: The Clonus Horror), where jazz meets B-movie wise-acres and those who know jazz and love B-movies laugh themselves sick.)

A Mingus fan forever, and I catch the new Mingus groups at the Iridium or Dizzy's in NYC often. Never can get enough of his compositions and the sounds of The Mingus Big Band, Mingus Orch. and Mingus Dynasty and all with Sue Mingus's guidance.
Pithecanthropus Erectus was my introduction to Mingus so many years ago,and I have bought just about everything he and the new groups above have released since then.
Impossible to imagine this original, inventive and simply beautiful music on this album was first released 50 years ago. No one, but no one, can create music like this today. Mingus was trully a genius and it seems he is getting more and more recognition of this.
If your just getting into Mingus's music, this album is a must. The playing by Mingus and the other great young, swinging musicians on this date is more than just creative, and each of the players seems to be just perfect for this masterpiece, which contains some of Charles Mingus's best compositions
Atlantic Records, PLEASE RELEASE A RE-MASTERED VERSION OF IT.Done correctly, today's techknowlogy could do wonders for it. So many lesser albums by lesser artist have been re-mastered. WHY NOT THIS!

I sympathize with Charlie, treated by the world as an uninvited guest, he wants to love, but y'all aren't having any of that. Now I'm Mingus at 45, every bit as volatile, every bit as doomed, just---me got no talent----
you should monitor dishwashers and laundresses---
they're watching you!

For those struggling to "connect" with jazz, coming from a pop music sensibility (where one listens for lyrics and melody instead of texture and interplay, etc.)Mingus is a groovy, humorous breakthrough. With this album I was able to bring my soul and mind back to being a child of 6 or 7 and watching Sesame Street in the safe haven presence of my big daddy reading the Sunday paper. Mingus makes music like clowns make animal balloons and magicians pull rabbits out of hats for children's birthday parties, but not in some creepy overacting way, in a very cool, 1960s-70s Sesame Street way, the muppets way. Horns interact like they're loony muppet birds speaking to one another in a comical but beautiful language.... repeating each other's questions as textures shift and change. Best of all is how Mingus connects modern jazz with bebop, big band, and the sound of the blues. He's like a crazy connect the dots painter, linking Louis Armstrong to Charlie Parker to Sun Ra in one crazy technicolor brush stroke. That said, the horns and sirens of Foggy Day are really annoying after 2 seconds and the tambourine in "Love Dance" seems really off sometimes, like some musician's little kid or jazz workshop janitor got in on the scene, picking up the one instrument no one was using. Other than that, this is a masterpiece.

This mini-lp replica sleeve is a real treat for fans as it very faithfully copies in great detail the original lp design. The remastered sound also makes the sound quality of this album a real pleasure to listen to as well. This is a worthwhile addition to any jazz fan's musical library. Recommended.