Mingus Plays Piano

This is an album you really have to be in the right mood for in order to enjoy it. It's a solo piano album, and a good one, but I won't say it's up there with say The Köln Concert. However, considering that Mingus was a bass player and 7 of 11 of these tracks were composed by him which makes me like it even more. How this album came to be was Mingus had lost a friend and was in the studio playing... read more