The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus is an album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus released on the Bethlehem label. The album is a compilation of tracks originally released by Period Records as two 10-inch LPs entitled Jazzical Moods and co-credited to John LaPorta. Personnel Credits: Charles Mingus - bass, piano / John LaPorta - clarinet, alto saxophone / Thad Jones (credited on original issue as "Oliver King") - trumpet (tracks 1-3 & 6) / Teo Macero - tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone / Jackson Wiley - cello (tracks 1-3) / Clem DeRosa - drums, tambourine.
Tracklist:
Side A
1. What Is This Thing Called Love
2. Minor Intrusion
3. Stormy Weather
Side B
1. Four Hands
2. Thrice Upon A Theme
3. The Spur Of The Moment
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Unique and Milestone For Mingus
This was Mangus’s first full length album as a leader and it has all the ingredients in elements that would show up in his later masterpieces. Most of the musicians do not take a usual solo but blend and add different expressions throughout the pieces at different times, creating an almost chamber like a jazz feel. It’s cool, it’s third stream, it’s jazz in the 1950s!
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Highly recommended!
Incredible mind for music. He compares to Zappa for way out music for their genre. This album will keep you wanting more from Mingus. is not for everybody, he is an acquired taste.
