Charles Mingus - Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Charles Mingus
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Artist: Charles MingusEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-11-07
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Haitian Fight Song
- Ysabel's Table Dance
- Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
- Better Git It In Your Soul
- Original Faubus Fables
- Peggy's Blue Skylight
- Eat That Chicken
- Solo Dancer
- Mood Indigo
- The Shoes Of The Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers
Music reviews of Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Charles Mingus
Music Review: Mingus the Kingus
Rating: 5 Stars
Although a lot of people take their shots at the Ken Burns Jazz sets and compilation cd's, the compilation cd's are the best best of's I've ever seen and one cd with Original Faubus Fables, Better Git Hit in Yo Soul, and Mood Indigo is pure gold in my view.
Even the cover is cool. Mingus was the stereotypical "beatnik" with the beret hat, the goatee, and the "jelly roll soul." Mingus was just a cool hep cat who knew where it was at. Eat that Chicken is a great song. It's very funny that the Great Mingus just took the stereotype of Black people loving chicken to his advantage in a great song. Mingus was a great Genius. My introduction to Mingus was through the song, Original Faubus Fables in the great Ken Burns Jazz set. It blew me to the back of the room with it's very distinctive sound. Charles Mingus (1922-1979) had a great combination of soul, the blues, and New Orleans style mixed with bebop.
The best intro to Mingus, most Mingus fans say, is through the 1959 classic album, "Ah Um;" but this is probably the best alternative, although I must say that Ah Um is great.
Either get this or Ah Um; or if you have the cash, you're the lucky sob who can buy the great set "Passions of a Man" Complete Atlantic Recordings of Charles Mingus 1956-1961!
Better Git Hit in Yo' Soul or you'll be angrier than Mingus!!
Description of Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Charles Mingus
Bassist Charles Mingus was known for his hot-headed behavior and outrageous statements, but those extracurriculars are secondary to the magical music he created. This compilation is part of the 22-CD single-artist series that is the bulk of the musical component for Ken Burns's documentary Jazz. Featuring nine tracks, this is an accurate but thumbnail profile of one of jazz's most complex and gifted musicians. Many will remember the incorporation of "Haitian Fight Song" as the soundtrack to a VW car advertisement, but the sentimental beauty of "Goodbye, Porkpie Hat," the urgency of "Better Get Hit in Your Soul," and the cover of Ellington's "Mood Indigo" reveal a musical portrait that is strikingly broad and beautiful. More varied in his influences than many jazzmen, Mingus incorporated such disparate influences as Ellington, gospel, Mexican music, Dixieland, European masters, and even politics. Probably the most challenging of bop greats, Charles Mingus is an iconoclastic icon whose music never severed its tie with its roots, even as he continually broke new ground. --Tad HendricksonJazz CDs
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