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2,020 Albums You Must Hear Before the World Ends
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The Mingus aggregate that recorded this set lived by the perforations that saxophonist Shafi Hadi sent toward Jimmy Knepper's slippery trombone. If the arrangements for the horns sound Ellingtonian, they're scripted to do so. Mingus played temperately but importantly off the Duke's model for sectional playing here. And Mingus's bass was as wild as ever, especially on the intro to "Haitian Fight Song," which goes at a slow churn here. Hadi and Knepper sound more mainstream than, say, some of Mingus's other brass-reeds combos, but Wade Legge's strange piano voicings created a stormy harmonic frame for the band to thrive
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Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
Release date: 16 February 1999
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0081227559021 UPC: 081227559021
Release date: 16 February 1999
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0081227559021 UPC: 081227559021
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2,020 Albums You Must Hear Before the World Ends (1755 music items)"THE CLOWN (1957) CHARLES MINGUS Review coming soon... FAV TRACKS: "Haitian Fight Song"; "The Clown"; "Blue Cee"; "Reincarnation of a Love Bird" "
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