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MINGUS AH UM • MINGUS AH UM
BLUE COLORED VINYL
This album shows what Charlie Mingus could achieve. It sounds aggressive and exciting. The free solos are actually disciplined and not too long for their content, even though the tracks are mostly quite long the quality of improvisation makes them feel compact and the whole album swings. It seems to me that the combo knew each other well and knew to how pass the solo baton before their inspriation had ceased. It also sounds like it has the strucure of an Ellington small group but with a more exciting and immediate sense of purpose. It is much more satisfying too my ears than the contemporary Free Jazz of Ornette Coleman