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Amazon.com's Best of 1998
This three-CD box, with its 28 Mingus ensemble tracks, rounds out a portrait of jazz in 1959, a year when Miles Davis recorded Kind of Blue, John Coltrane cut Giant Steps, and Ornette Coleman unloosed The Shape of Jazz to Come. Mingus was on Columbia for a blink, only long enough to cut a couple of LPs (both of which appear here sans the unclean edits that've marred prior reissues). There is so much additional material here that the set warrants easy Best of 1998 kudos and nearly mandates that Mingus fans and jazz lovers one and all replace their prior copies. --Andrew Bartlett
Amazon.com essential rec
Amazon.com's Best of 1998
This three-CD box, with its 28 Mingus ensemble tracks, rounds out a portrait of jazz in 1959, a year when Miles Davis recorded Kind of Blue, John Coltrane cut Giant Steps, and Ornette Coleman unloosed The Shape of Jazz to Come. Mingus was on Columbia for a blink, only long enough to cut a couple of LPs (both of which appear here sans the unclean edits that've marred prior reissues). There is so much additional material here that the set warrants easy Best of 1998 kudos and nearly mandates that Mingus fans and jazz lovers one and all replace their prior copies. --Andrew Bartlett
Amazon.com essential recording
Mercurial bassist and bandleader Charles Mingus was signed to Columbia Records for the briefest of time during 1959. His Columbia recordings, however, remain some of the most inspired, mood-jumping jazz in history. This three-CD collection fattens the original LPs, Mingus Ah Um and Mingus Dynasty, along with 10 tracks in their original, unedited form. The third CD includes six alternate takes from the sessions, one of them previously unissued altogether. These songs nail why Mingus is possibly the most relevant jazzer for the '90s generation. They're either foot-stomping in intensity or poignantly yearning with their lyrical tapestry of orchestral colors. Nowhere will you find better, more flowing jazz statements than the sad "Goodbye Porkpie Hat" (unedited!) or in the blasting "Boogie Stop Shuffle" (also unedited!). --Andrew Bartlett
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Manufacturer: Sony
Release date: 9 June 1998
EAN: 0074646514528 UPC: 074646514528
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