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  • Artist: Charles Mingus
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2009
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 074646551325
  • Item Number: SNY655132
  • Release date: 02/16/1999
  • 1. Slop [Unedited Form]
  • 2. Diane
  • 3. Song With Orange [Unedited Form]
  • 4. Gunslinging Bird [Unedited Form]
  • 5. Things Ain't What They Used to Be [Unedited Form]
  • 6. Far Wells, Mill Valley
  • 7. New Now Know How
  • 8. Mood Indigo
  • 9. Put Me in That Dungeon
  • 10. Strollin' [Bonus Track]
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Mingus Dynasty (Import) by Charles Mingus on CD


Mingus Ah Um catapulted Charles Mingus from a much-discussed semi-underground figure to a near-universally accepted and acclaimed leader in modern jazz. Perhaps that's why his Columbia follow-up, Mingus Dynasty, is often overlooked in his canon -- it's lost in the shadow of its legendary predecessor, both because of that album's achievement and the fact that it's just a notch below the uppermost echelon of Mingus' work. Having said that, Mingus Dynasty is still an excellent album -- in fact, it's a testament to just how high a level Mingus was working on that an album of this caliber could have gotten lost in the shuffle. There's a definite soundtrack quality to a great deal of the music here, and indeed the majority of Mingus' originals here were composed for film and television scores and an expanded, nine- to ten-piece group. On some pieces, Mingus refines and reworks territory he'd previously hit upon. "Slop," for example, is another gospel-inflected 6/8 stormer, composed for a TV production that requested a piece similar to "Better Get It in Your Soul." The ferocious "Gunslinging Bird" follows a similar pattern, and it's the same piece whose full title -- "If Charlie Parker Were a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats" -- is given elsewhere. There are a couple of numbers from the Ellington songbook that both feature cellos -- "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" and a fantastic, eight-minute "Mood Indigo" -- and a couple of pieces that rely on the even more tightly orchestrated approach of Mingus' pre-Pithecanthropus Erectus days -- "Far Wells, Mill Valley" and the atonal but surprisingly tender and melodic "Diane." The CD reissue of Mingus Dynasty -- like that of its predecessor -- restores the full-length versions of some songs that had portions of solos edited for time on the original LP release. ~ Steve Huey, Rovi
  • Artist: Charles Mingus
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2009
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 074646551325
  • Item Number: SNY655132
  • Release date: 02/16/1999
  • Label: Pid
  • Genre: Jazz
  • Style: Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Progressive Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Piano Jazz
  • Album Time: 59:15

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  • Mingus Dynasty (Import) Charles Mingus CD
Mingus Dynasty (Import) Charles Mingus CD