Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus

Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
Studio album by Charles Mingus
Released 1963
Recorded Jan. 20-Sept. 20, 1963
Genre Jazz
Length 45:39
Label Impulse!
Producer Bob Thiele
Charles Mingus chronology
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Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus is a 1963 (see 1963 in music) album by jazz composer and bassist Charles Mingus.

Contents

Historical Context

Many of the tracks on this album had been recorded or have since been rerecorded, some under different titles, on other albums. For example

  1. "Theme for Lester Young" – "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" on Mingus Ah Um
  2. "II B.S." – "Haitian Fight Song" on Plus Max Roach and The Clown (also recorded as "Hog Callin' Blues" on Oh Yeah)
  3. "Freedom" – "Freedom" on Epitaph
  4. "Better Get Hit in Yo' Soul" – "Better Git It in Your Soul" on Mingus Ah Um (also "Better Git Hit in Your Soul" on Mingus at Antibes)
  5. "Hora Decubitus" – "E's Flat, Ah's Flat Too" on Blues & Roots
  6. "I X Love" – "Duke's Choice" on A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry.[2][3][4]

Freedom

Freedom, by Charles Mingus (excerpt)

This mule ain't from Moscow,
this mule ain't from the South.
But this mule's had some learning,
mostly mouth-to-mouth.

The lyrics, "This mule ain't from Moscow", might be a reference to a Moscow Mule, a drink made of vodka and ginger beer popular in the 1950s, but is likely also referring to African-American slaves as the "mule".

Mingus performed a number of other songs with spoken poetry or narration:

Several of his other pieces have lyrics:

Track listing

All tracks written by Charles Mingus, except where noted.

  1. "II B.S." – 4:46
  2. "I X Love" – 7:38
  3. "Celia" – 6:12
  4. "Mood Indigo" (Duke Ellington/Barney Bigard) – 4:43
  5. "Better Get Hit in Yo' Soul" – 6:28
  6. "Theme for Lester Young" – 5:50
  7. "Hora Decubitus" – 4:41
  8. "Freedom" – 5:10

Personnel

Tracks #1 and 4-8, recorded in New York on September 20, 1963:

Tracks #2 and 3, recorded in New York on January 20, 1963:

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Santoro, Gene (2000). Myself when I Am Real. New York: Oxford University Press US. p. 413. ISBN 0195147111. 
  3. ^ Mathieson, Kenny (1999). Giant Steps. Canongate US. p. 217. ISBN 0862418593. 
  4. ^ Conversely, Nat Hentoff identifies "Nouroog" as the precursor to "I X Love". Hentoff, Nat (1963). Album notes for Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus by Charles Mingus, pp. 2–10 [CD booklet]. Impulse! Records (IMPD-170).
Charles Mingus
Studio albums
Jazz Composers Workshop (1954-55) · The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus (1955) · Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956) · The Clown (1957) · East Coasting (1957) · A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry (1957) · Mingus Ah Um (1959) · Mingus Dynasty (1959) · Blues & Roots (1960) · Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (1960) · Reincarnation of a Lovebird (1960) · Oh Yeah (1961) · Tonight at Noon (1957-61) · Tijuana Moods (1962) · The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963) · Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (1964) · Mingus Plays Piano (1964) · Let My Children Hear Music (1972) · Mingus Moves (1973) · Changes One (1974) · Changes Two (1975) · Three or Four Shades of Blues (1977) · Cumbia & Jazz Fusion (1978)
Live albums
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