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This 1963 recording occupies a special place in Mingus's work, his most brilliantly realized extended composition. The six-part suite is a broad canvas for the bassist's tumultuous passions, ranging from islands of serenity for solo guitar and piano to waves of contrapuntal conflict and accelerating rhythms that pull the listener into the musical psychodrama. It seems to mingle and transform both the heights and clichés of jazz orchestration, from Mingus's master, Duke Ellington, to film noir soundtracks. The result is a masterpiece of sounds and textures, from the astonishing vocal effects of the plunger-muted trumpets and tro
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Manufacturer: Mca
Release date: 30 October 1995
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0011105117425 UPC: 011105117425
Release date: 30 October 1995
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0011105117425 UPC: 011105117425
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