Recorded in 1973 with one of his best ensembles, Charles Mingus’ Atlantic album has “that Mingus sound" down pat, pretty much at dead center. Piano, bass and drums roll out the beat while horns tackle the composer’s changes. There’s never a dull moment. Highly recommended, the album opens with a typically Mingus slow 6/8 dramatic “Canon" ...

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Charles Mingus: Mingus Moves

by C. Andrew Hovan
August 1, 1999

So many of the jazz great are now gone, a fact that no one would dispute but that really hits home after listening to a masterpiece such as this reissue of Charles Mingus' Mingus Moves. Not only have we lost the impetuous bassist and composer, but also drummer Dannie Richmond, tenor titan George Adams and the ...

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Charles Mingus: Mingus Moves

by Paula Edelstein
August 1, 1999

Joel Dorn, producer of The Masked Announcer series on the popular 32 JAZZ label, had the good sense to get the goods on this recording originally released by Atlantic in 1973 and re-issue it in the Winter of 1999. MINGUS MOVES, by the demanding, late genius, bassist Charles Mingus, is once again available after being out ...

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Mingus, Coltrane, Blakey & Monk: Four Rhino Reissues

by Robert Spencer
March 1, 1999

This second set of Atlantic classic jazz reissues from Rhino is just as attractively and imaginatively packaged as the first, and the music is just as seminal. I wonder why no one had this idea earlier: instead of trying to approximate LP packaging in and around a jewel box, Rhino here simply shrinks the actual original ...

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