Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um[Eac Flac Cue][TntVillage]

Artist...............: Charles Mingus
Album................: Mingus Ah Um
Genre................: Jazz
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 1959/1998
Ripper...............: Exact Audio Copy (Secure mode) & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 57 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
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Ripped by............: leonenero on 19/11/2012
Posted by............: leonenero on 19/11/2012
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Covers...............: Front Back CD

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Tracklisting
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1. Better Git It In Your Soul [07.23]
2. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat [05.44]
3. Boogie Stop Shuffle [05.02]
4. Self-Portrait In Three Colors [03.10]
5. Open Letter To Duke [05.51]
6. Bird Calls [06.17]
7. Fables Of Faubus [08.13]
8. Pussy Cat Dues [09.14]
9. Jelly Roll [06.17]
10. Pedal Point Blues (Bonus) [06.30]
11. GG Train (Bonus) [04.39]
12. Girl of my dreams (Bonus) [04.08]

Playing Time.........: 01.12.33
Total Size...........: 418,00 MB


Personnel

John Handy – alto sax, clarinet, tenor sax
Booker Ervin – tenor sax
Shafi Hadi – tenor sax, alto sax
Willie Dennis – trombone
Jimmy Knepper – trombone
Horace Parlan – piano
Charles Mingus – bass, piano (with Parlan)
Dannie Richmond – drums


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; "Bird Calls," in Mingus' own words, was not a reference to bebop legend 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). It is sometimes claimed that Columbia refused to allow the lyrics to be included on this album, though the liner notes to the 1998 reissue of the album state that the piece started life as an instrumental, and only gained the lyrics later (as can be heard on the 1960 release Presents Charles Mingus.)