Money Jungle

Money Jungle

Money Jungle
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Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-07-16
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Money Jungle
  2. Fleurette Africaine
  3. Very Special
  4. Warm Valley
  5. Wig Wise
  6. Caravan
  7. Solitude
  8. Switch Blade
  9. A Little Max (Parfait)
  10. REM Blues
  11. Backward Country Boy Blues
  12. Solitude (alternate take)
  13. Switch Blade (alternate take)
  14. A Little Max (Parfait) (alternate take)
  15. REM Blues (alternate take)

Music reviews of Money Jungle

Music Review: "Ah man, that was good.. that was sweet."
Rating: 5 Stars

Ellington/Mingus/Roach - the names alone mean greatness. This album stands alone in Duke's 40-plus-year career covering everything from bebop to swing and everything in between; it's a rare piano trio recording rather than being done with his more common big band, and it's his only record with these two fantastic sidemen (both giants in their own right). Money Jungle is the kind of thing you can't classify: it stretches between hard bop, blues, swing and a hint of the freeform avant-garde while occupying its own space outside all of them. Duke's piano constantly twists and turns around the framework of chords he lays out for the others, occasionally flirting with atonality but never becoming unlistenable. Roach, a drummer with the self-effacing personality of a bass player, would be content to add his own little tricks and riffs behind the others without hogging the spotlight.. but there really is no spotlight, since everyone's basically equal in listening & responding to each other throughout. You might have to adjust the stereo to really hear Mingus's bass, but it's well worth a good batch of listens in itself - there's enough going on to suggest two Minguses (Mingusi? Mingi?) at work. This is what an ideal trio recording is - an equal collaboration among all the members in terms of inventiveness and improvisation.

The song list is all Ellington-composed (or co-composed) and almost all new to this session. His standards "Solitude," "Warm Valley" and "Caravan," as is usual when revisiting one's older tunes, are tweaked and reworked in this setting; everything else was all-new. It's quite an impressive display of how fertile Duke's musical imagination was even after 37 years or so. There have been rumors of clashes during this session between him and Mingus, but I really don't hear it anywhere. They play against each other, sure.. around practically every corner you can hear all three of them challenging and tossing curveballs at each other, prodding each other to bring out the best they can do. But it never sounds unpleasant to me. (Duke gives Mingus a good compliment after a false start to "Backward Country Boy Blues.") It's simply three top-notch players bouncing some ideas around and bringing the best they can do to the table. Any other details are secondary.

The sound quality is stellar except for some fuzziness to the high piano notes (probably unfixable). Duke's harmonic invention at the piano is as rich as ever; his quirky way with chords and licks here never seems to get stale. There's no use trying to pinpoint where this stuff falls on the scale; bebop, swing, blues, hard bop, whatever. Even the extra non-album tracks are eminently worthy additions. They're not exactly unique (three of them are just standard blues), but as with all the other songs, it's the interplay among the group that makes these recordings special. Maybe we could wish this wasn't the only time this trio played together, but that only makes Money Jungle stand out even more. Piano-trio recordings are a dime a dozen out there, but sessions like this one are a rare thing indeed. Money Jungle will keep you coming back to hear new things for years.
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What an alliance: a legendary bandleader and composer, a pioneering bop drummer, and an unclassifiable (and often prickly) bass behemoth. It's no wonder that the tension between Duke Ellington, Max Roach, and Charlie Mingus is thick and extremely tangible, permeating this breathtaking 1962 album with passion and aggression. On the jagged blues "Very Special," Ellington establishes a weighty mood while his piano work almost borders on free jazz. Roach's sticks dance and prance across every inch of his kit on "A Little Max"; on "Caravan" he effectively shifts from exotic rhythms to straight time. Duke's harmonic invention is delicate and mysterious on "Fleurette Africaine," but simultaneously jarring and cerebral on the confrontational "Wig Wise." It's hard to believe only three people are creating the stomping, disjointed monster that is the title track. Ellington alone emphasizes the beautiful melodies of the classic ballads "Soltitude" and "Warm Valley," but the edge returns when the rhythm section joins him. Mingus, who actually idolized Ellington, seems to be purposely agitating the master, almost taunting him. You'd say the synergy was magical, except that they seem to be working against each other. --Marc Greilsamer

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