Articles tagged "charles mingus"

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Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um 50th Anniversary (Legacy Edition)

by Sean Murphy

[8.Jul.09] :. Mingus Ah Um sounds like the 20th Century: it is a self-portrait of a man who helped define the direction of post-bop jazz, commenting on the country that created him.

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The Best Re-Issues of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[19.Dec.07] :. From '60s soul to bluegrass and Krautrock to post-punk, PopMatters counts down the year's best re-issued albums.

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Charles Mingus Sextet: Cornell 1964

by Will Layman

[20.Jul.07] :. A truly great band at a definitive moment in the music's history -- and never heard before.

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Charles Mingus: Tijuana Moods

by Michael Keefe

[11.Jul.07] :. This newly remastered version of the Mingus classic still sounds crazy after all these years -- crazy good!

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Charles Mingus: Music Written for Monterey, 1965. Not Heard…Played in Its Entirety, at UCLA

by Sean Murphy

[2.Nov.06] :. All Mingus asked for was the impossible. More often than not, he achieved it.

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Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um

by Matt Cibula

[1.Oct.02] :. This is the most difficult decisions any music critic could ever make . . . and one of the stupidest ways to waste time that any human could ever undertake. I mean, come on; what kind of life is it...

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Charles Mingus; Art Blakey & Thelonious Monk; John Coltrane

by Sarah Zupko

Mingus returns to his bass on The Clown and delivers one of his finest sets of compositions.

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