Ken Burn Jazz: THE DEFINITIVE

Product description Charles Mingus - Ken Burns Jazz Collection: The Definitiv Amazon.co.uk Bassist Charles Mingus was known for his hot-headed behaviour and provocative utterances, but those personal foibles are secondary to the magical music he created. This compilation is part of the 22-CD single-artist series that is the audio counterpart to Ken Burns's documentary Jazz . Featuring nine tracks, this is an accurate thumbnail portrait of one of jazz's most complex and gifted musicians. Many will remember the use of "Haitian Fight Song" as the soundtrack to a VW car advertisement, but the sentimental beauty of "Goodbye, Porkpie Hat", the urgency of "Better Get Hit in Your Soul" and the cover of Ellington's "Mood Indigo" reveal a musical portrait that is strikingly broad and beautiful. More varied in his influences than many jazzmen, Mingus drew from such disparate sources as Ellington, gospel, Mexican music, Dixieland, European masters and even politics. Probably the most challenging of hard boppers, Charles Mingus is an iconoclast whose music never lost touch with its roots, even as he continually broke new ground. --Tad Hendrickson

1: Haitian Fight Song
2: Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
3: Better Get Hit in Your Soul
4: Original Faubus Fables
5: Peggy's Blue Skylight
6: Eat That Chicken
7: Solo Dancer-Stop! Look! And Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney
8: Mood Indigo
9: The Shoes Of The Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers

Number of Discs: 1

Producer: Bob Belden, Michael Cuscuna

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