Posts Tagged Charles Mingus
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August 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 70
Duke Ellington/Charlie Mingus/Max Roach, Money Jungle (1963) I don’t have a “list” of albums that I’m seeking – but there’s a version of a list in my head. There’s a small handful of albums I’m thinking about, wishing to find, hoping to see…and I never seem to catch them out in the wild. They’re there. […]Archive
February 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Jazz Right In Your Face: Ten Important Jazz Albums In My Life
You know the drill by now – here’s the catch-all blurb/explanation I’ve created for these sorts of lists We all know that lists are subjective – that is the point of them. So I’ve decided to do a series of top 10 albums across genres. They’ll appear sporadically. And rather than call them “Top 10” I […]Archive
September 2, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Mingus
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady is pumping. But there’s no time for jumping. The only jitters are the ones in the soul. And they’ll be dead and buried, dragged down in some hole eventually. But right now The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady is the only truth. Listen hard. As it plays […]Archive
March 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 735
Joni Mitchell, Mingus (1979) Of course I always liked this record – and owned it – it’s a Joni Mitchell record after all, but I was never as enamoured with it as so many of the others, a difficult record, a bit unfinished, bits and pieces, which of course is part of its charm and […]Archive
December 27, 2013 by Simon Sweetman