Mingus Plays Piano
1964 studio album by Charles Mingus
Mingus Plays Piano | ||||
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Studio album by Charles Mingus | ||||
Released | 1964 | |||
Recorded | July 30, 1963 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 50:03 | |||
Label | Impulse! | |||
Producer | Bob Thiele | |||
Charles Mingus chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [3] |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [2] |
Mingus Plays Piano is a 1964 solo jazz album by Charles Mingus. The album is notable for Mingus's departure from his usual role as composer and double-bassist in ensemble recordings, instead playing piano without any additional musicians.
Track listing
- "Myself When I Am Real" – 7:38
- "I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) – 3:43
- "Body and Soul" (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) – 4:35
- "Roland Kirk's Message" – 2:43
- "Memories of You" (Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf) – 4:37
- "She's Just Miss Popular Hybrid" - 3:11
- "Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk" – 4:18
- "Meditations for Moses" - 3:38
- "Old Portrait" - 3:49
- "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" (George Bassman, Ned Washington) – 3:46
- Compositional Theme Story: "Medleys, Anthems and Folklore" – 8:35
All music composed by Charles Mingus unless otherwise noted.
Personnel
Production
- Bob Thiele - producer, photography
- Michael Cuscuna - reissue producer
- Bob Simpson - engineer
- Erick Labson - digital remastering
- Nat Hentoff - liner notes
- Victor Kalin - cover painting
- Hollis King - art direction, design
- Joe Lebow - liner design
- Lee Tanner - photography
References
- ^ Yanow, Scott (2011). "Mingus Plays Piano - Charles Mingus | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
- ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 140. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1005. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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albums
- The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus
- Jazz Composers Workshop
- Pithecanthropus Erectus
- The Clown
- East Coasting
- Mingus Three
- A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry
- Mingus Ah Um
- Blues & Roots
- Mingus Dynasty
- Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
- Pre-Bird
- Mingus
- Oh Yeah
- Tijuana Moods
- Money Jungle
- The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
- Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
- Tonight at Noon
- Mingus Plays Piano
- Blue Bird
- Pithycanthropus Erectus
- Let My Children Hear Music
- Mingus Moves
- Changes One
- Changes Two
- Three or Four Shades of Blues
- His Final Work
- Cumbia & Jazz Fusion
- Something Like a Bird
- Charles Mingus with Orchestra
- Reincarnation of a Lovebird
albums
- Mingus at the Bohemia (1956)
- Jazz Portraits: Mingus in Wonderland (1959)
- The Complete Town Hall Concert (1962)
- The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach (1963)
- Astral Weeks (1964)
- Town Hall Concert (1964)
- Revenge! (1964)
- The Great Concert of Charles Mingus (1964)
- Mingus in Europe Volume I (1964)
- Mingus in Europe Volume II (1964)
- Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop (1964)
- Mingus at Monterey (1964)
- My Favorite Quintet (1965)
- Music Written for Monterey 1965 (1965)
- Charles Mingus Sextet In Berlin (1970)
- Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (1972)
- Mingus at Antibes (1974)
- Mingus at Carnegie Hall (1974)
- Cornell 1964 (2007)
- Beneath the Underdog (1971 autobiography)
- Mingus Big Band
- Mingus Dynasty
- Sue Mingus
- Jazz at Massey Hall (1953)
- Weary Blues (1958)
- Newport Rebels (1960)
- Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1964)
- Mingus (1979)
- Epitaph (1990)
- Mingus: Charlie Mingus 1968
- Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog (1998 documentary)