With such major statements as Pithecanthropus Erectus and The Clown behind him, bassist-composer Charles Mingus reached an early career height in 1959 with Mingus Ah Um, his first album for Columbia. It’s not trivial that roughly half of it was recorded on May 5, the same day that John Coltrane waxed roughly half of Giant Steps for Atlantic. Creative fire and intelligence wer...(展开全部) With such major statements as Pithecanthropus Erectus and The Clown behind him, bassist-composer Charles Mingus reached an early career height in 1959 with Mingus Ah Um, his first album for Columbia. It’s not trivial that roughly half of it was recorded on May 5, the same day that John Coltrane waxed roughly half of Giant Steps for Atlantic. Creative fire and intelligence were in the air, and Mingus’ contribution was as bluesy and timelessly melodic as ever, performed by a eight-piece incarnation of his Jazz Workshop. The abstract cover art of S. Neil Fujita (who also designed Dave Brubeck’s Time Out cover) evoked a modernist mindset well-suited to some of Mingus’ most enduring compositions, including the dark, dissonant ballad “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat,” an implied homage to saxophone great Lester Young (with a John Handy tenor solo that Joni Mitchell later set to words on her album Mingus). With the Young dedication as well as the multilayered “Open Letter to Duke,” the minor-key uptempo swinger “Bird Calls,” and the playful finale “Jelly Roll,” Mingus seemed to be working out his own place in the jazz pantheon. The result was avant-garde in its way, even if not as conceptually radical as Ornette Coleman’s The Shape of Jazz to Come, recorded for Atlantic just two weeks later. Mingus’ music conveyed a unique sense of abandon—one hears it in his uninhibited vocal hollers at the outset of “Better Git It in Your Soul.” There’s also an overt connection to the freedom struggle of the time, evident in “Fables of Faubus,” one of jazz’s most celebrated protest songs, which was aimed at the governor of Arkansas in the aftermath of Little Rock's school-integration crisis. (Columbia, however, shied away from including Mingus’ scathing lyrics, which can be heard instead on Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus from 1960 on Candid, under the title “Original Faubus Fables.”) Given that he produced Mingus Ah Um and Brubeck’s Time Out (and coproduced Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue as well), Teo Macero’s role in the jazz sound of 1959 can’t be overlooked. The splices he used to shorten six of the nine tracks on Mingus Ah Um were predictive of techniques he’d employ 10 years later (to much different ends) on Davis’ Bitches Brew.
曲目
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"Better Git It In Your Soul" (7:21)
"Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" (4:46/5:42)
"Boogie Stop Shuffle" (3:41/4:59)
"Self-Portrait in Three Colors" (3:08)
"Open Letter to Duke" (4:56/5:49)
"Bird Calls" (3:12/6:18)
"Fables of Faubus" (8:13)
"Pussy Cat Dues" (6:27/9:13)
"Jelly Roll" (4:01/6:15)
"Pedal Point Blues" (6:30) [*reissued bonus track]
"GG Train" (4:39) [*reissued bonus track]
"Girl of My Dreams" (4:08) (Sonny Clapp) [*reissued bonus track]
必须听无损的一张。Charles Mingus的伟大在于他对乐手性格的绝对尊重,而且他也有能力做到”无数声音,一个灵魂“。比如《Better Git It In Your Soul》这首,前后始终有一个低音像地鼠似的四处游弋,每每在你放松大意时于不可能处破壁,凭空生出复杂的空间感——此所谓音乐内部的性格。
5 有用 小涂涂神 2013-04-13 08:28:54
换一副好耳机听。
8 有用 godannar 2010-11-06 17:49:43
必须听无损的一张。Charles Mingus的伟大在于他对乐手性格的绝对尊重,而且他也有能力做到”无数声音,一个灵魂“。比如《Better Git It In Your Soul》这首,前后始终有一个低音像地鼠似的四处游弋,每每在你放松大意时于不可能处破壁,凭空生出复杂的空间感——此所谓音乐内部的性格。
22 有用 xhua 2016-04-10 11:25:49
这是几个月前在Atlantic的经典录音“Blues and Roots”激情四射的布鲁斯福音音乐在风格上的延续和进化。这录音有Mingus最有名的几首曲子,有最能贯彻他音乐风格的一帮年轻乐手们,和最能体现他音乐风格和成就的许多难忘时刻。简而言之,爵士乐迷需人手一张,务须多言。
0 有用 Solidibiza 2014-06-28 17:06:30
额。。哎。。。听不懂了
5 有用 ητοςouti 2015-06-19 21:14:19
这可真是泪流满面,这是我听的第一张mingus,感觉神奇
0 有用 izumihiyori 2025-02-25 20:55:43 辽宁
10/10
0 有用 幽灵酒保 2025-01-12 18:12:45 广东
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
0 有用 阿头D.343 2025-01-16 20:17:48 广东
Mingus几大张里这张比较无感
0 有用 èllé 2025-03-05 11:13:23 黑龙江
时间标注都好像不对?
0 有用 恙贤 2025-02-17 23:34:11 天津
jazz第一。