I said this upthread but I think Antibes is top 3 mingus record ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOUhl_Pvd24
― deej loaf (D-40), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 23:18 (nine years ago) link
"Pithecanthropus Erectus" is a definite favourite. Likewise "Jelly Roll" and a few already mentioned
xpost yeah "Antibes" was one of my first Mingus recs. I was so thrilled to discover ACTUAL EXISTING FOOTAGE of that version of "I'll Remember April" on youtube (Dolphy & Ervin trading fours!)
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 23:30 (nine years ago) link
Pithecantrhopus Erectus is my absolute favorite! The concept, as I perceive it anyway, is irresistible to me. Caveman jazz...
― liam fennell, Thursday, 18 September 2014 12:13 (nine years ago) link
"haitian fight song" has pretty much always been my favorite. my brother and i had a long talk about how it seems like a precursor or older relative to coltrane's "The Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost." also love "wednesday night prayer meeting"
― marcos, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link
Oh Yeah is such a great, weird album. Mine even more so, since I got it as the disc from the box set that combines it with Tonight at Noon. Roland Kirk & Booker Ervin honk and squawk with abandon. "Wham Bam" and "Don't Drop the Bomb on Me" are beautiful.
And "Love Chant" from Pithecanthropus is sublime. Desert island pick without question.
― Liquid Plejades, Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:43 (nine years ago) link
Just found out last night Terri Lyne Carrington did a tribute to Money Jungle and is touring on it.
Didn't feel like reviving the Money Jungle thread so posting about it here.
― Code Money Changes Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 September 2014 14:52 (nine years ago) link
for an individual song, it's tough to get better than Ecclusiastics from Oh Yeah.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 18 September 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
had a listen to that one last night, Karl. Never really thought of Mingus as a 'weird' artist, but it's tunes like that which disprove the assumption.
― monoprix à dimanche (dog latin), Friday, 19 September 2014 14:49 (nine years ago) link
Mingus Dynasty is a marvellous album and easily belongs in the Mingus top tier. I only just learned from the intro of Beneath The Underdog that the album title is a reference to his own Chinese heritage.
― calzino, Saturday, 5 August 2017 12:07 (six years ago) link