Please forgive the light posting— in honor of Charles Mingus’s birthday, dig this record:
2 thoughts on “Daily best music in the world: Mingus”
This is wild, one od my favorites! I still can't get over the fact that Jane Getz was just 16 years old when she played on this one. If you can, get her biography "Running with the big dogs" Recommended reading, if you want to get a feel for the scene in the sixties.
I'll look up that book! This is one of my favorite records ever, too– for awhile in the 90s I just tried to play like this– living up there in the &s all the time.
Here’s a feature I’ve been meaning to start- my favorite individual tracks ever. Our first entry will be Charles Mingus’ Hog Callin’ Blues, from the album Oh Yeah. I think Jimmy Knepper said “there’s no […]
Another example of rub-a-dub applied, using a passage from the Charles Mingus tune Fables of Faubus. In previous lessons we’ve just used this idea on the head of some tunes as an exercise. Here we’re […]
I am one lazy blogger- but what am I going to write that’s 2% as good watching Eric Dolphy during Johnny Coles’ solo? If that isn’t enough for you for today, go read Andrew Hare’s […]
This is wild, one od my favorites! I still can't get over the fact that Jane Getz was just 16 years old when she played on this one. If you can, get her biography "Running with the big dogs"
Recommended reading, if you want to get a feel for the scene in the sixties.
I'll look up that book! This is one of my favorite records ever, too– for awhile in the 90s I just tried to play like this– living up there in the &s all the time.