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May 27, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Stephanie Nilles: I Pledge Allegiance To The Flag – The White Flag

Stephanie Nilles I Pledge Allegiance To The Flag – The White Flag Sunnyside To listen to the compositions of Charles Mingus is to hear aspects of classical, avant-garde, blues, gospel, poetry and soul all within the confines of jazz. Mingus pushed everything through that spectre, viewed everything through that lens. Maybe he was the great […]
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February 8, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Cool Summer: The Musical Rediscoveries of 2020/2021

Every year it’s music. All day it’s music. All the time. And if it’s not then there’s a film on – and I’m usually noticing the music. Or it’s a podcast. Which has music. Or is an interview about music. When I’m reading it’s a music biography or it’s poetry – which has its own […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Ambient, Bananarama, Book, Brian Eno, Car, Carole King, Charles Mingus, Cool Summer, Cool Summer: The Musical Rediscoveries of 2020/2021, Cruel Summer, Damn The Torpedoes, Daniel Lanois, Discreet Music, Driving, Emmylou Harris, Ennio Morricone, Family, Hermit of Mink Hollow, Holiday, John Martyn, Playlist, Rage Against The Machine, Reading, Roadtrip, Score, Solid Air, Soundtrack, Spotify, Summer, The Mission, The Musical Rediscoveries of 2020/2021, Todd Rundgren, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, Wrecking Ball, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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. […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1963, Charles Mingus, Charlie Mingus, Duke Ellington, Jazz, LP, Max Roach, Money Jungle, Record, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 70, Viny ·

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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 […]
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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Charles Mingus, Jazz, Mingus, Poem, Poem: Mingus, The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1979, Charles Mingus, Don Alias, God Must Be A Boogie Man, Herbie Hancock, Jaco Pastorius, Joni Mitchell, LP, Mingus, Peter Erskine, Record, The Vinyl Countdown # 735, Vinyl, Wayne Shorter ·

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December 27, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Terri Lyne Carrington: Money Jungle – Provocative in Blue

Terri Lyne Carrington Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue Concord Jazz It’s best not to look too hard at how this version of Money Jungle (a brand new album that is part-tribute, part-extrapolation, part-palinode) measures up (or doesn’t) to the legendary recording by Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Max Roach. The point, here, is that with […]
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