8437012830844

Ah Um

Charles Mingus

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Format: LP

Cat No: 37013

Release Date:  30 September 2016

Label:  Jazz Images

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  8437012830844

Genres:  Jazz  

  • Description

    "Mingus Ah Um", featuring an all-star group including Jimmy Knepper, John Handy, Booker Ervin and Curtis Porter (aka Shafi Hadi), was Charles Mingus’ first LP for Columbia. The Penguin Guide to Jazz called this album “an extended tribute to ancestors” and awarded it one of their rare crowns.

    Reception was also good when "Mingus Ah Um" was first issued. Leonard Feather gave the album a five-star rating in Down Beat, stating: “First let’s put your minds at ease about that weird title: it’s a corruption ofan imaginary Latin declension (mingus-minga-mingum). Don’t ask why. It seems to me that Mingus has now completely found himself, found a personal and vital direction. This is a consistently exciting and stimulating set. Mingus has something to say, knows how and through whom to say it, and it is all stated with communicative authority.”

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. 01 BETTER GET IT IN YOUR SOUL
      • 2. 02 GOODBYE PORK PIE HAT
      • 3. 03 BOOGIE STOP SHUFFLE
      • 4. 04 SELF - PORTRAIT IN THREE COLORS
      • 5. 05 OPEN LETTER TO DUKE
      • 6. 06 BIRD CALLS
      • 7. 07 FABLES OF FAUBUS
      • 8. 08 PUSSY CAT DUES
      • 9. 09 JELLY ROLL