Charles Mingus

(Sheesh... just one miserable week!? Bah, I could swear it passed a month already...)For those who might've wonder where I've been: no I didn't become stinking rich with a fabulous tan neither I got sucked into the matrix (although I would've appreciate to learn how to bend some spoons, and I bet I'd beat Keanu Reeves) nor got broke on brokeback mountain (you're such a dear Bartleby...). Well, had some stuff to do that required a lot of time and... no big deal, I'M BACK!!.... MORE

(written 19 hours ago; the title jinxed me, ya think?) it is mid-day where many of you are and midnight for me. i retire to my room pondering Sunday night, the last day of summer break, 12:59 - times having the misfortune of being decided as gloomy for no other reason than what they precede. i turn to iTunes feeling like John Patton or Billie Holiday but instead browse Charles Mingus. more to the point, i play something i would list under "favorite mistakes": The Complet... MORE

is this tune recorded in New York exactly seven days after I was born, and released on an Atlantic LP called "Blues and Roots". It has been memorably described in one of Mingus' biographies as "A masterpiece of planned chaos"  

As a rock fan who came to jazz relatively late, I find the entire massive recorded output of Charles Mingus to be incredibly diverse and exciting - almost impossible to take it all in - it seems that you can discover something to enthuse over in every track on every one of dozens of albums. This is from the 1973 album Mingus Moves where Mingus is accompanied by George Adams on tenor sax, Ronald Hampton on trumpet, with Don Pullen on keyboard and Dannie Richmond on dru... MORE

_... Who's with me ???_ ;) Once again a Perfect Day... so two videos for the price of one... (I know, with me, I always go for the _more is more_ philosophy...) ;) First a little Lou Reed (dedicated to the the last two days here in my city, Philadelphia ...) Second, a man who plays a bass as if it were his beloved one... Charles Mingus. I would have gladly been his sinner lady :) Perfect Day _in PA_ (the unofficial title ;) _the video is a little rough arou... MORE

This came across random play.

Once in awhile Charlie gives us something we can understand. Reference this http://mog.com/Lizziegreeneyes/blog_post/88270
So all ya'll art fags and music geeks get behind this cat and tell me what you really think. "That's ridiculous." Feeling strange this week. Better watch out! P.S. Play Heads or Tails. As Tyler would say, "Obey!"

Forget Rolling Stone, Wire, or what-have-you, here's my 25 albums I absolutely love and think everyone should hear before they die. Yes, everyone. 25 - Volume Two (1969) - The Soft Machine Jazzy, dadaist psychedelia from one of the most unique bands of the 60's. 24 - Songs for the Deaf (2004) - Queens of the Stone Age Very accessable, very catchy, very nice. 23 - Mosaic (1962) - Art Blakey One of many great albums from the man who all rock 'n' roll drummers w... MORE

Brief history: My best friend from high school, who was also my roommate in college, was a real "metal head" and I was/is a jazzer. We cross pollinated and I got him into jazz, he got me into metal. He had a saying after he got into jazz, "Jazz musicians were the first rockers." Case in point: Charles Mingus. I've been listening to a lot of upright bass players lately because I've been playing upright at church and I'm looking to get one. If you look up Mingus on wik... MORE

So After Me Club L.A. Club Daze, figured needed sumoze Musaq Edumikashun, applied to Berklee sckool's uv Musaq, and didn't make it, probs because of knowses Hi skull diploomu. nevu droppted out just tuk fur uver. wus ubot 5 cruduts uf. thut eye gut tum ul reedee, wus rung, shull said doos kreeduts doo nut kount. 2 bizzy pleyin gigs en hi scull, + they touht eye wus en idiot and a looser enyways, so just woodant werk owt eny weys. got my diploma any ways, american public H.... MORE

If you're not into jazz.....check this out....it'll convert ya To me it's a jazz "Bohemian Rhapsody"...kinda.... (hope I don't offend any jazzers...) it's perfect to me....when I think of all that's great about jazz...(with my limited knowledge of it) this is IT to me.... Also, I've heard that it was an inspiration for Radiohead's "National Anthem" What do YOU think?