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Artist   | Charles Mingus
Title    | Presents Charles Mingus

Genre    | Jazz
Source   | CDDA
Format   | Album (Remastered)
Label    | Candid
Catalog  | CCD 79005
Released | 1997
Ripped   | 2019

Quality  | 245 kbps avg at 44.1 kHz
Encoder  | Lame 3.100
Size     | 85.19 MB

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R E L E A S E   I N F O R M A T I O N

Bassist, composer, arranger, and bandleader Charles Mingus cut
himself a uniquely iconoclastic path through jazz in the middle of
the 20th century, creating a musical and cultural legacy that became
universally lauded. As an instrumentalist he had few peers - he was
blessed with a powerful tone and pulsating sense of rhythm, capable
of elevating the instrument into the frontline of a band.

Intensely ambitious yet often earthy in expression, simultaneously
politically radical and deeply traditional spiritually, Mingus'
music took elements from everything he had experienced - from gospel
and blues, New Orleans jazz, swing, bop, Latin music, modern
classical music, and even the jazz avant-garde, and adapted it for
ensembles ranging from trios and quartets to sextets and orchestras.

Mingus has a fascinating way of offering music that is grounded in
tradition while remaining startlingly original. The freshness of a
disc like "Presents Charles Mingus", has the effect of rendering
much of what passes for jazz as tedious. The band is small for
Mingus, and includes Eric Dolphy on alto saxophone and bass
clarinet, Ted Curson on trumpet, and Dannie Richmond on drums. It
would be one of Dolphy and Curson's last recording dates with the
artist, and they seem determined to go all out for it. The leader's
bassline kicks off "Folk Forms No. 1," followed by Dolphy outlining
the melody, and then joined by Curson.

A simple riff develops into a lively New Orleans funeral march
that's developed for 12 minutes. "Original Faubus Fables" is serious
in intent - a political attack on segregation governor Faubus - but
Mingus and Richmond's singing is difficult to listen to with a
straight face. Still, this doesn't distract from the wonderful
music. Again and again, the elasticity of the sound is fascinating,
at once spacious with the bass and drums balanced against the brass
and then noisy, with the horns wailing and crying. The last two
pieces, "What Love?" and the outrageously titled "All the Things You
Could Be by Now if Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother," are much
looser, bordering on free jazz.

The album accomplishes what the best of Mingus accomplishes: the
perfect tension between jazz played as an ensemble and jazz played
as totally free. Shout out to diss for the original pre. In case you
can't find it, enjoy this GCP internal.

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01. Folk Forms No. 1                                                   13:06
02. Original Faubus Fables                                              9:21
03. What Love                                                          15:24
04. All The Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was      8:35
Your Mother

46:26

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