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 In A Soulful Mood - Charles Mingus
Description: Genre: Jazz - Post-bop / Artist: Charles Mingus / Import / Audio CD released 1996-11-19 at Music Club / Disc #1 ... more  In A Soulful Mood - Charles Mingus ... Tracklisting1 Bugs [Take 3] 2 Reincarnation of a Lovebird [First Version] 3 Vassarlean 4 Stormy Weather 5 Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away) [Take 4] 6 Body and Soul [Take 2] 7 Mysterious Blues 8 R&R [Take 1] Newest Review: ... Album-- In a Soulful Mood opens on the track "Bugs" which is classic Jazz café music... A wonderful walking bass ... more ... line with soft, fast, cymbal filled drumming, plodding piano and melodic saxophone.
Track two is called "Reincarnation of a Lovebird" and opens with Paul Bley on piano with rolling snare in the background. The piano sets a slow mood for around a minute but then is blown away by a mass introduction of six other musicians. This is obviously the beginning of the reincarnation. This formula is then repeated through the song, a slow part followed by a fast part followed by a slow part again...
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In A Soulful Mood - Charles Mingus: Mingus. The Angry Bassist... (1135 words)
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Charles Mingus - In a Soulful Mood. **************************** Charles Mingus, also known as "The angry man of Jazz" (simply because of his outbursts of rage at music and musicians that he considered not to be perfect), is a fantastic jazz bassist and composer. He was born in 1922 in Arizona and picked up the Double Bass in high school. He had previously learnt to play the cello and trombone so many of his cello skills were converted to double bass. In his early years he was composing incredibly advanced jazz pieces, some of which to be recorded later on. Over his career Mingus recorded in excess of 70 records with various ...
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