Funny this Charles Mingus business. I was listening to "Mercury" by Bloc Party this morning and then thinking about Kid A by Radiohead (because of all the wild horns in "Mercury")... and remembering Radiohead mentioning that Charles Mingus had influenced them while making the "The National Anthem" (the one with the wild jazzy ending, which in turn made me think about what connections can ...
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We roll 5, 7, 5,Don't bother commenting if,you can't take the heat. Listening pleasure,Mingus is the sound laid down,Shuffle Bass Boogie. The dot at the top,Please press play for a tune fromMysterious Blues.
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_*... Who's with me ???*_ ;)Once again a Perfect Day... so two videos for the price of one... (I know, with me, I always go for the _more is more_ philosophy...) ;)First a little Lou Reed (dedicated to the the last two days here in *my city, +Philadelphia+* ...)Second, a man who plays a bass as if it were his beloved one... Charles Mingus. I would have gladly been his *sinner lady* :)*+Perf...
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(written 19 hours ago; the title jinxed me, ya think?)it is mid-day where many of you are and midnight for me. i retire to my room pondering Sunday night, the last day of summer break, 12:59 - times having the misfortune of being decided as gloomy for no other reason than what they precede. i turn to iTunes feeling like John Patton or Billie Holiday but instead browse Charles Mingus. more to th...
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This came across random play.Once in awhile Charlie gives us something we can understand.Reference this http://mog.com/Lizziegreeneyes/blog_post/88270So all ya'll art fags and music geeks get behind this cat and tell me what you really think. "That's ridiculous." Feeling strange this week. Better watch out!P.S. Play Heads or Tails. As Tyler would say, "Obey!"
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is this tune recorded in New York exactly seven days after I was born, and released on an Atlantic LP called "Blues and Roots". It has been memorably described in one of Mingus' biographies as "A masterpiece of planned chaos"
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So After Me Club L.A. Club Daze, figured needed sumoze Musaq Edumikashun, applied to Berklee sckool's uv Musaq, and didn't make it, probs because of knowses Hi skull diploomu. nevu droppted out just tuk fur uver. wus ubot 5 cruduts uf. thut eye gut tum ul reedee, wus rung, shull said doos kreeduts doo nut kount. 2 bizzy pleyin gigs en hi scull, + they touht eye wus en idiot and a looser enyways...
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(Sheesh... just one miserable week!? Bah, I could swear it passed a month already...)For those who might've wonder where I've been: no I didn't become stinking rich with a fabulous tan neither I got sucked into the matrix (although I would've appreciate to learn how to bend some spoons, and I bet I'd beat Keanu Reeves) nor got broke on brokeback mountain (you're such a dear Bartleby...). Well, ...
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I've got a grip of favorite bass players (Aston "Family Man" Barrett, Norwood Fischer, Charlie Haden, Bootsy Collins, Jaco Pastorius, Adam Clayton and Oscar Pettiford to name a few -- a cello's still a bass in my book, yo) but the biggest bad wolf in the whole pack has to be Charles Mingus...in his prime Charlie cut a whole heap of phat tracks like "Goodbye Porkpie Hat," "Haitian Fight Song," ...
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While I'm in a Jazz mood, let's have some early Charles Mingus - piano bass and drums - mmmm, nice
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As a rock fan who came to jazz relatively late, I find the entire massive recorded output of Charles Mingus to be incredibly diverse and exciting - almost impossible to take it all in - it seems that you can discover something to enthuse over in every track on every one of dozens of albums.This is from the 1973 album Mingus Moves where Mingus is accompanied by George Adams on tenor sax, Ronald ...
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Brief history: My best friend from high school, who was also my roommate in college, was a real "metal head" and I was/is a jazzer. We cross pollinated and I got him into jazz, he got me into metal. He had a saying after he got into jazz, "Jazz musicians were the first rockers."Case in point: Charles Mingus. I've been listening to a lot of upright bass players lately because I've been playin...
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Forget Rolling Stone, Wire, or what-have-you, here's my 25 albums I absolutely love and think everyone should hear before they die. Yes, everyone.25 - Volume Two (1969) - The Soft MachineJazzy, dadaist psychedelia from one of the most unique bands of the 60's.24 - Songs for the Deaf (2004) - Queens of the Stone AgeVery accessable, very catchy, very nice.23 - Mosaic (1962) - Art BlakeyOne of m...
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