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Charles Mingus 22nd April 1922 – 5th January 1979 Was An American Jazz Bassist Composer Bandleader And Occasional Pianist From Los Angeles. He Was Also Known For His Activism Against Racial Injustice. Mingus' Legacy Is Notable He Is Ranked Among The Finest Composers And Performers In Jazz And Recorded Many Highly Regarded Albums. Dozens Of Musicians Passed Through His Bands And Later Went On To Impressive Careers. His Songs - Though Melodic And Distinctive - Are Not Often Recorded By Later Musicians Due In Part To Their Unconventional Nature. Mingus Was Also Influential And Creative As A Bandleader Recruiting Talented And Sometimes Little-Known Artists Whom He Assembled Into Unconventional And Revealing Configurations. Nearly As Well Known As His Ambitious Music Was Mingus' Often Fearsome Temperament Which Earned Him The Nickname "The Angry Man Of Jazz". His Refusal To Compromise His Musical Integrity Led To Many Onstage Explosions Though It Has Been Argued That His Temper Also Grew From A Need To Vent Frustration. Ironically A Perfect Show Could Irritate Him By Closing This Outlet. Mingus Was Prone To Depression. He Tended To Have Brief Periods Of Extreme Creative Activity Intermixed With Fairly Long Periods Of Greatly Decreased Output. Most Of Mingus's Music Retained The Hot And Soulful Feel Of Hard Bop And Drew Heavily From Black Gospel Music While Sometimes Drawing On Elements Of Third Stream Jazz And Free Jazz. Yet Mingus Avoided Categorization Forging His Own Brand Of Music That Fused Tradition With Unique And Unexplored Realms Of Jazz. Mingus Focused On Collective Improvisation Similar To The Old New Orleans Jazz Parades Paying Particular Attention To How Each Band Member Interacted With The Group As A Whole. In Creating His Bands Mingus Looked Not Only At The Skills Of The Available Musicians But Also Their Personalities. He Strived To Create Unique Music To Be Played By Unique Musicians. Due To His Brilliant Writing For Mid-Size Ensembles - And His Catering To And Emphasising The Strengths Of The Musicians In His Groups - Mingus Is Often Considered The Heir Apparent To Duke Ellington For Whom He Expressed Unqualified Admiration. By The Mid-1970s Mingus Was Suffering From Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ALS . Mingus Died Aged 56 In Cuernavaca Mexico Where He Had Traveled For Treatment And Convalescence. His Ashes Were Scattered In The Ganges River.
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Charles Mingus 22nd April 1922 – 5th January 1979 Was An American Jazz Bassist Composer Bandleader And Occasional Pianist From Los Angeles. He Was Also Known For His Activism Against Racial Injustice. Mingus' Legacy Is Notable He Is Ranked Among The Finest Composers And Performers In Jazz And Recorded Many Highly Regarded Albums. Dozens Of Musicians Passed Through His Bands And Later Went On To Impressive Careers. His Songs - Though Melodic And Distinctive - Are Not Often Recorded By Later Musicians Due In Part To Their Unconventional Nature. Mingus Was Also Influential And Creative As A Bandleader Recruiting Talented And Sometimes Little-Known Artists Whom He Assembled Into Unconventional And Revealing Configurations. Nearly As Well Known As His Ambitious Music Was Mingus' Often Fearsome Temperament Which Earned Him The Nickname "The Angry Man Of Jazz". His Refusal To Compromise His Musical Integrity Led To Many Onstage Explosions Though It Has Been Argued That His Temper Also Grew From A Need To Vent Frustration. Ironically A Perfect Show Could Irritate Him By Closing This Outlet. Mingus Was Prone To Depression. He Tended To Have Brief Periods Of Extreme Creative Activity Intermixed With Fairly Long Periods Of Greatly Decreased Output. Most Of Mingus's Music Retained The Hot And Soulful Feel Of Hard Bop And Drew Heavily From Black Gospel Music While Sometimes Drawing On Elements Of Third Stream Jazz And Free Jazz. Yet Mingus Avoided Categorization Forging His Own Brand Of Music That Fused Tradition With Unique And Unexplored Realms Of Jazz. Mingus Focused On Collective Improvisation Similar To The Old New Orleans Jazz Parades Paying Particular Attention To How Each Band Member Interacted With The Group As A Whole. In Creating His Bands Mingus Looked Not Only At The Skills Of The Available Musicians But Also Their Personalities. He Strived To Create Unique Music To Be Played By Unique Musicians. Due To His Brilliant Writing For Mid-Size Ensembles - And His Catering To And Emphasising The Strengths Of The Musicians In His Groups - Mingus Is Often Considered The Heir Apparent To Duke Ellington For Whom He Expressed Unqualified Admiration. By The Mid-1970s Mingus Was Suffering From Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ALS . Mingus Died Aged 56 In Cuernavaca Mexico Where He Had Traveled For Treatment And Convalescence. His Ashes Were Scattered In The Ganges River.
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John Handy – Alto Sax 1 6 7 9 10 11 12 Clarinet 8 Tenor Sax 2 Booker Ervin – Tenor Sax
Shafi Hadi – Tenor Sax 2 3 4 7 8 10 Alto Sax 1 5 6 9 12 Willie Dennis – Trombone 3 4 5 12 Jimmy Knepper – Trombone 1 7 8 9 10 Horace Parlan – Piano
Charles Mingus – Bass Piano With Parlan On Track 10 Dannie Richmond – Drums
Published: 07 Jul 2023, 02:41
Mingus Ah Um Is A Studio Album By American Jazz Musician Charles Mingus Which Was Released In October 1959 By Columbia Records. It Was His First Album Recorded For Columbia. The Cover Features A Painting By S. Neil Fujita. The Title Is A Corruption Of An Imaginary Latin Declension. It Is Common For Latin Students To Memorize Latin Adjectives By First Saying The Masculine Nominative Usually Ending In "-Us" Then The Feminine Nominative "-A" And Finally The Neuter Nominative Singular "-Um" —implying A Transformation Of His Name Mingus Minga Mingum. The Album Was Inducted Into The Grammy Hall Of Fame In 2013. The Penguin Guide To Jazz On CD Calls This Album "an Extended Tribute To Ancestors" And Awards It One Of Their Rare Crowns And Mingus's Musical Forebears Figure Largely Throughout. "Better Git It In Your Soul" Is Inspired By Gospel Singing And Preaching Of The Sort That Mingus Would Have Heard As A Child Growing Up In Watts Los Angeles California While "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" Is A Reference By Way Of His Favored Headgear To Saxophonist Lester Young Who Had Died Shortly Before The Album Was Recorded . The Origin And Nature Of "Boogie Stop Shuffle" Is Self-Explanatory A Twelve-Bar Blues With Four Themes And A Boogie Bass Backing That Passes From Stop Time To Shuffle And Back. "Self-Portrait In Three Colors" Was Originally Written For John Cassavetes' First Film As Director Shadows But Was Never Used For Budgetary Reasons . "Open Letter To Duke" Is A Tribute To Duke Ellington And Draws On Three Of Mingus's Earlier Pieces "Nouroog" "Duke's Choice" And "Slippers" . "Jelly Roll" Is A Reference To Jazz Pioneer And Pianist Jelly Roll Morton And Features A Quote Of Sonny Rollins' "Sonnymoon For Two" During Horace Parlan's Piano Solo. "Bird Calls" In Mingus's Own Words Was Not A Reference To Bebop Saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker "It Wasn't Supposed To Sound Like Charlie Parker. It Was Supposed To Sound Like Birds – The First Part." "Fables Of Faubus" Is Named After Orval E. Faubus 1910–1994 The Governor Of Arkansas Infamous For His 1957 Stand Against Integration Of Little Rock Arkansas Schools In Defiance Of U.S. Supreme Court Rulings Forcing President Eisenhower To Send In The National Guard . Columbia Records Refused To Allow The Lyrics To The Song To Be Included And So The Song Was Recorded As An Instrumental On The Album. It Was Not Until October 20 1960 That The Song Was Recorded With Lyrics For The Album Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus Which Was Released On The More Independent Candid Label. Due To Contractual Issues With Columbia The Song Could Not Be Released As "Fables Of Faubus" And So The Candid Version Was Titled "Original Faubus Fables". The Original Columbia Records LP Release Of The Album Featured Edited Versions Of Six Of The Nine Compositions. For These Tracks From One To Three Minutes Of The Performances Were Removed Both To Meet The Playing Time Constraints Of The LP Format And Because Producer Teo Macero Felt The Pieces Were More Effective In Edited Form. Unedited Versions Of These Pieces Were First Released In 1979 On LP. The First Widely-Available CD Edition Of The Album 1987's "Columbia Jazz Masterpieces" Edition Used The Original LP Edits. The Edited Version Has Been Reissued On Compact Disc Subsequent To 1987 Including A 2019 Release By Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab. The Unedited Version Of The Album Was First Widely Released On Compact Disc In 1998 As Part Of The Sony Legacy Series And It Too Has Remained Available Through Additional Compact Disc Reissues. Mingus Ah Um Was One Of Fifty Recordings Chosen By The Library Of Congress To Be Added To The National Recording Registry In 2003. The Album Was Ranked Number 380 Of The Top 500 Albums Of All-Time By Rolling Stone In 2020. In 2009 Sony's Legacy Recordings Released A Special 2-Disc 50th Anniversary Edition Of Mingus Ah Um. In Addition To The Complete Album The Legacy Edition Includes An Alternative Take Of Each Of Three Tracks "Bird Calls" 4 54 "Better Git It In Your Soul" 8 30 And "Jelly Roll" 6 41 . The Legacy Edition Of Mingus Ah Um Also Includes Mingus Dynasty Its Companion Album Recorded Later In 1959 With Unedited Versions Of Five Tracks Shortened On The Original LP Release . PersonnelJohn Handy – Alto Sax 1 6 7 9 10 11 12 Clarinet 8 Tenor Sax 2 Booker Ervin – Tenor Sax
Shafi Hadi – Tenor Sax 2 3 4 7 8 10 Alto Sax 1 5 6 9 12 Willie Dennis – Trombone 3 4 5 12 Jimmy Knepper – Trombone 1 7 8 9 10 Horace Parlan – Piano
Charles Mingus – Bass Piano With Parlan On Track 10 Dannie Richmond – Drums