Mingus
Beskrivning:Sångerskan Joni Mitchells hyllning till en av jazzens giganter, basisten/kompositören Charles Mingus. Den har blivit en klassiker och en bidragande orsak är de fina musiker som medverkade: Joni Mitchell g/voc, Jaco Pastorius b, Wayne Shorter ss, Herbie Hancock el-p, Peter Erskine dr, Don Alias cga, Emil Richards perc.
Alla texter i det fina, tresidiga utvikningskonvolutet som pryds av ett par av Joni Mitchells oljemålningar.
"Mingus...bestowed Mitchell with six melodies — "Joni I" through "Joni VI" — penned specifically for her. Mitchell spent a few weeks with Mingus — who was totally immobilized from amyotropic lateral sclerosis (aka, Lou Gehrig's Disease) — during the spring of 1978. Their partnership advanced the half-dozen tunes. More importantly, it shook Mitchell from a three-month long writer's block/drought — yielding two of her best late-'70s compositions: "God Must Be a Boogie Man" and the revisitation and completion of a track she'd been wood-shedding, now titled "The Wolf That Lives in Lindsey."...//...Sprinkled amongst these soulfully jazzy pieces are five "raps," or aural snapshots of the time Mitchell and Mingus spent together. Sadly, Charles Mingus passed before he was able to listen to this timeless and ageless paean to his remarkable contributions to bop and free jazz." (Lindsay Planer, allmusic.com)
11 spår; speltid 37:20.
Språk:
Skivbolag: Asylum 5E-505 (1978)
Format: LP
Skick: Vinyl Nära nyskick
USA-pressning.
Spår:
- Happy Birthday 1975 (rap)
- God must be a boogie man
- Funeral (rap)
- A chair in the sky
- The wolf that lives in Lindsey
- I´s a muggin´ (rap)
- Sweet sucker dance
- Coin in the pocket (rap)
- The dry cleaner from Des Moines
- Lucky (rap)
- Goodbye Pork Pie Hat