Release Date: 30 September 2016
Label: Jazz Images
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8437012830844
Genres: Jazz  
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
Miles Davis
Chet Baker
Jackie Mclean
Sonny Rollins
John Coltrane & Johnny Griffin
Art Blakey
Paul Chambers Quintet
John Coltrane
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus
Jane Bunnett and Maqueque
Charles Mingus