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Mingus Ah Um (50th Anniversary Legacy Edition) (CD)

By: Charles Mingus (Artist)

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Charles Mingus Artist Snapshot:

Charles Mingus poured the full weight of his experience into everything he played. He was a powerful virtuoso on bass, and as a composer he drew on the whole history of jazz to produce works of trenchant beauty. Above all, he was an artist whose uncompromising spirit invited both controversy and adulation. In the '40s and '50s he worked as bassist for everyone from Kid Ory and Louis Armstrong to Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk. Mingus began recording as a leader in the early '50s, and by the end of the decade he was at the peak of his powers as bandleader, arranger, and composer. He incorporated the influence of gospel, blues, and European classical composers into a big-band jazz format, crafting an innovative, completely unique sound. Mingus died of Lou Gehrig's Disease in 1978, but his mark on subsequent musical generations is indelible.

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DISC 1 for Mingus Ah Um (50th Anniversary Legacy Edition) (CD) Album By Charles Mingus (Artist)
1   Better Git It In Your Soul
2   Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
3   Boogie Stop Shuffle
4   Self-Portrait In Three Colors
5   Open Letter To Duke
6   Bird Calls
7   Fables Of Faubus
8   Pussy Cat Dues
9   Jelly Roll
10   Pedal Point Blues
11   GG Train
12   Girl Of My Dreams
13   Bird Calls (Alternate)
 
DISC 2 for Mingus Ah Um (50th Anniversary Legacy Edition) (CD) Album By Charles Mingus (Artist)
1   Better Git It In Your Soul (Alternate)
2   Jelly Roll (Alternate)
3   Slop
4   Diane
5   Song With Orange
6   Gunslinging Bird
7   Things Ain't What They Used To Be
8   Far Wells, Mill Valley
9   New Now Know How
10   Mood Indigo
11   Put Me In That Dungeon
12   Strollin'
 

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Review

Down Beat (p.61) - 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "MINGUS AH UM combined the ferocity, elegance and sheer brilliance of Mingus' pen and bandleading."

Title Note

This remastered edition of MINGUS AH UM features six of the original tracks in unedited form and three bonus tracks.

Personnel: Charles Mingus (piano, bass); John Handy (alto & tenor saxophones, clarinet); Shafi Hadi (alto & tenor saxophones); Booker Ervin (tenor saxophone); Jimmy Knepper, Willie Dennis (trombone); Horace Parlan (piano); Dannie Richmond (drums).

Producer: Teo Macero.

Reissue producer: Michael Cuscuna.

Recorded at 30th Street Studio, New York, New York on May 5 & 12, 1959. Includes liner notes by Diane Dorr-Dorynek and Brian Priestley.

Digitally remastered using 20-bit technology by Mark Wilder and Rob Schwarz (Sony Music Studios, New York, New York).

This is a Super Audio CD playable only on Super Audio CD players.

This remastered edition of MINGUS AH UM features six of the original tracks in unedited form and three bonus tracks.

Personnel: Charles Mingus (piano, bass); John Handy (alto & tenor saxophones, clarinet); Shafi Hadi (alto & tenor saxophones); Booker Ervin (tenor saxophone); Jimmy Knepper, Willie Dennis (trombone); Horace Parlan (piano); Dannie Richmond (drums).

Producer: Teo Macero.

Reissue producer: Michael Cuscuna.

Recorded at 30th Street Studio, New York, New York on May 5 & 12, 1959. Includes liner notes by Diane Dorr-Dorynek and Brian Priestley.

Personnel: Charles Mingus (piano, bass instrument, upright bass); Seymour Barab, Maurice Brown (cello); Jerome Richardson (flute, baritone saxophone); John Handy (clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); Shafi Hadi (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); Benny Golson, Booker Ervin (tenor saxophone); Richard Williams, Don Ellis (trumpet); Jimmy Knepper, Willie Dennis (trombone); Horace Parlan, Roland Hanna (piano); Teddy Charles (vibraphone); Dannie Richmond (drums).

Audio Remixer: Mark Wilder.

Recording information: Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York City.

One of the five essential Mingus albums to own, and even if you are not a jazz fan this is still worthy of being in any comprehensive collection. The opening track, "Better Git It In Your Soul," rushes along at a furious pace and then there is a wonderful change of tempo into an a cappella and handclap pause. It rolls on, of course, but the nature of this track reflects the nature of Mingus who never failed to experiment (even though sometimes he failed). The personnel comprises John Handy III, Shafi Hadi and Booker Ervin (saxophones), Horace Parlan Jr (piano), Willie Dennis and James Knepper (trombones) and Charles Richmond (drums). Mingus whoops, shouts and holds it all together and then turns the pace majestically on numbers such as "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat.

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