Mingus 'Oh Yeah'~50th anniversary

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  • Jazzrook
    Full Member
    • Mar 2011
    • 3109
    #1

    Mingus 'Oh Yeah'~50th anniversary

    Mingus's 'Oh Yeah' was the first jazz album I heard back in the early '60s. Recorded 50 years ago on 6th November, 1961 it still blows me away today.
    Charles Mingus - Hog Callin Blues
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv1Yewr6Z5s
    Charles Mingus singing and playing the piano with Roland Kirk on the horns. This music made me like Charles Mingus and I branded this one as Hardcore Jazz. A...
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  • aka Calum Da Jazbo
    Late member
    • Nov 2010
    • 9173
    #2


    a masterpiece of the 20th Century jazzrook [thanks for reminding us] and it still blows me away as well ... back in the 60s this was a devotional piece for the lads and yours truly ...
    According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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    • burning dog
      Full Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 1511
      #3
      Agreed Mingus at his peak. An Anniversary thread would be a good thing, not as a trainspotterish exercise but to remember neglected masterpieces.

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