Charles Mingus - along with Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk - was one of the greatest composers in the jazz tradition. His earliest and most lasting musical influence was the lively worship - the shouts, the deep moans, the call-and-response - of the holiness church he attended with his mother in Los Angeles' Watts neighborhood in the 1920s and 1930s. These formative sounds of his youth are recapitulated on most every cut of his memorable 1959 album, Mingus Ah Hum.
Thursday, May 10, 2018
Better Get Hit in Your Soul (Charles Mingus)
Charles Mingus - along with Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk - was one of the greatest composers in the jazz tradition. His earliest and most lasting musical influence was the lively worship - the shouts, the deep moans, the call-and-response - of the holiness church he attended with his mother in Los Angeles' Watts neighborhood in the 1920s and 1930s. These formative sounds of his youth are recapitulated on most every cut of his memorable 1959 album, Mingus Ah Hum.
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