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Track Listings
| 1. Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting |
| 2. Cryin' Blues |
| 3. Moanin' |
| 4. Tensions |
| 5. My Jelly Roll Soul |
| 6. E's Flat Ah's Flat Too |
| 7. Bonus Tracks: Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting (Alternate Take) |
| 8. Bonus Tracks: Tensions (Alternate Take) |
| 9. Bonus Tracks: My Jelly Roll Soul (Alternate Take) |
| 10. Bonus Tracks: E's Flat Ah's Flat Too (Alternate Take) |
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Bassist Charles Mingus was always ready for a good fight. In the liner notes to this disc, Mingus says he wanted to respond to critics who said he didn't swing enough. And reply he did. Mingus gave whoever these absurd quibblers were some of the most ecstatic blues ("Moanin'" and "Cryin Blues"), gospel ("Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting") and Dixieland ("My Jelly Roll Soul") the jazz world has ever heard. Along with his striking original compositions, the instrumental combination in Mingus's nonet remains unconventional: the frontline included four saxophonists and two trombonists without the counterweight of a trumpeter. The leader's sliding octave bass lines and percussive slaps are totally rollicking, and the wild abandon in the group's playing is irrepressible. --Aaron Cohen
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Bassist Charles Mingus was always ready for a good fight. In the liner notes to this disc, Mingus says he wanted to respond to critics who said he didn't swing enough. And reply he did. Mingus gave whoever these absurd quibblers were some of the most ecstatic blues ("Moanin'" and "Cryin Blues"), gospel ("Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting"), and Dixieland ("My Jelly Roll Soul") the jazz world has ever heard. Along with his striking original compositions, the instrumental combination in Mingus's nonet remains unconventional: the frontline included four saxophonists and two trombonists without the counterweight of a trumpeter. The leader's sliding-octave bass lines and percussive slaps are totally rollicking, and the wild abandon in the group's playing is irrepressible. --Aaron Cohen
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Vintage Mingus,
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This review is from: Blues & Roots (Deluxe ed.) (Audio CD)
While this isn't quite in the front rank of Mingus albums--_Mingus Ah Um_, recorded with a similarly-constituted band for Columbia, is a much more ambitious & wide-ranging album--_Blues & Roots_ is nonetheless a characteristically powerful & tempestuous recording by the bassist. His curious habit of constantly reworking compositions, pet chord progressions, phrases & ideas is strongly evident here--perhaps a little too strongly: "Moanin'" & "E's Flat Ah's Flat Too", in particular, are identically structured musical rounds built up over Pepper Adams' full-tilt baritone riffs. "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting" & "My Jelly Roll Soul" are also worth cross-referencing to performances on other Mingus albums of the period.The ten-strong band on here is superb--Jackie McLean, Booker Ervin, Jimmy Knepper, John Handy, Pepper Adams, Horace Parlam & Mal Waldron..... A special word for Willie Dennis, a tragically short-lived trombonist who never recorded much in his lifetime but was a truly astonishing musician--check out Ronnie Ball's (deleted, but not hard to find) Savoy disc with Dennis & Ted Brown in the front line for a rare extended sample of Dennis's improvisational powers. On _Blues & Roots_, alas, he only gets the briefest of look-ins. A fine, very enjoyable album: give it a listen.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Moanin',
By "wednightprayermeeting" (Bellview, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Blues & Roots (Deluxe ed.) (Audio CD)
All of Mingus' music is far above average. A whole lot of it is absolutely ingenious. This disk is on par with the expanse of his greatness. Intensity and swing are the main jive of this album. Striving less for perfection than momentum, this disk is masterful. "Moanin'" is a swinging mess of brassy blues, and "Cryin'Blues" is a heartwrencher. "My Jelly Roll Soul," a tribute to Mingus' idol Jelly Roll Morton, alleviates the tension, and replaces it with sure bliss. Child-like. Out of all of Mingus' music, this is the album I play the most. Again, masterful.
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Absolutely Amazing,
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This review is from: Blues & Roots (Audio CD)
I was pleasantly surprised by this album. I've allways liked Mingus, but sometimes his style of play, while skillfull, is sometimes out of rythem, making it difficult to follow.This cd floored me, I've had it for about a month now and must've listened to it 20 times. My co-workers are wishing i'd play something else though! Just can't get enough!
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