7CD - Limited Edition Deluxe Boxed Set featuring the Jazz icon’s final seven studio albums and unreleased outtakes.
2022 marked the 100th birthday of Charles Mingus, renowned American composer and bassist in the jazz genre. After his death in 1979, he was acknowledged as one of the most important jazz composers, alongside Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. Mingus was innovative in his use of melody, rhythm, harmony, and form, and his compositions have become a core part of jazz repertoire.
This boxset includes his final studio recordings for Atlantic Records, spanning from the 1970s, featuring previously unreleased outtakes of “Big Alice”, “The Call” and “Music For Todo Modo”. Mingus had two periods of recording with Atlantic Records, the first being in the 1950s and 1960s, and the second in the 1970s, which marked his last phase of music.
Tracklist:
Disc 1: Mingus Moves (1973)
1. “Canon”
2. “Opus 4”
3. “Moves”
4. “Wee”
5. “Flowers For A Lady”
6. “Newcomer”
7. “Opus 3”
8. “Big Alice” (Take 1) *
9. “The Call” (Take 1) *
Disc 2: Changes One (1974)
1. “Remember Rockefeller At Attica”
2. “Sue’s Changes”
3. “Devil Blues”
4. “Duke Ellington’s Sound Of Love”
Disc 3: Changes Two (1974)
1. “Free Cell Block F, ‘Tis Nazi U.S.A.”
2. “Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress, Then Silk Blue”
3. “Black Bats And Poles”
4. “Duke Ellington’s Sound Of Love”
5. “For Harry Carney”
Disc 4: Three Or Four Shades Of Blues (1977)
1. “Better Git Hit In Your Soul”
2. “Goodbye, Porkpie Hat”
3. “Noddin Ya Head Blues”
4. “Three Or Four Shades Of Blues”
5. “Nobody Knows (The Bradley I Know)”
Disc 5: Cumbia & Jazz Fusion (1977)
1. “Cumbia & Jazz Fusion”
2. “Music for ‘Todo Modo’”
3. “Music for ‘Todo Modo’” (Take 1) *
*Outtakes
Disc 6: Me, Myself An Eye (1979)
1. “Three Worlds Of Drums”
2. “Devil Woman”
3. “Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting”
4. “Carolyn ‘Keki’ Mingus”
Disc 7: Something Like A Bird (1979)
1. “Something Like A Bird Part 1”
2. “Something Like A Bird Part 2”
3. “Farewell Farwell”
* Previously Unreleased