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Charles Mingus: Tijuana Gift Shop (Rating: 83/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Mingus’s music often proclaims its own biting and intense vernacular. This quirky melody, with a sharp rip to its hig...

Charles Mingus & Langston Hughes: Consider Me (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music May 16, 08

"Jazz gives poetry a much wider following," said Langston Hughes in 1958, "and poetry brings jazz the greater respect...

Charles Mingus: Better Git It In Your Soul (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 03, 07

Three 1959 Mingus albums begin with the same Pentecostal pandemonium. February's "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting" (Bl...

Charles Mingus: Ysabel's Table Dance (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 22, 07

Trying to party away the heartache of a failed marriage, Charles Mingus found "not even Tijuana could satisfy." Born ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ EXOTICA

Exotica is armchair tourism. We experience foreign strangeness without the hassles of leaving home. No passports, imm...

Charles Mingus: Flamingo (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

It would be difficult to get to the heart of what makes this track so special to me. The programmatic nature of the c...

Charles Mingus: Dizzy Moods (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 19, 08

It seems like such a cliché to refer to a Mingus arrangement as eccentric, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it...

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