Charles Mingus - This is Jazz 6 (1996)

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Title: This is Jazz 6
Year Of Release: 1996
Label: Columbia [CK 64624]
Genre: Jazz, Post Bop, Hard Bop
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 58:44
Total Size: 380 MB(+3%) | 139 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

1.Better Git It In Your Soul [07:24]
2.Goodbye Pork Pie Hat [04:48]
3.Fables Of Faubus [08:15]
4.Self-Portrait In Three Colors [03:07]
5.Slop [04:41]
6.Song With Orange [04:16]
7.Gunslinging Bird [03:59]
8.New Now Know How [03:03]
9.The Shoes Of The Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive-Ass Slippers[09:35]
10.Please Don't Come Back From The Moon [09:32]

personnel :

Bass – Charles Mingus
Percussion – Danny Richmond
Piano – Horace Parlan, Roland Hanna
Saxophone – Benny Golson, Booker Ervin, John Handy, Shafi Hadi
Trombone – Jimmy Knepper, Willie Dennis
Trumpet – Snooky Young, Dick Williams

This Is Jazz, Vol. 6 isn't an ideal overview of Charles Mingus' seminal Columbia recordings, but it isn't bad, either. Many of the featured 16 songs are among Mingus' very best, giving novices a good idea of the sound, style, and depth of his music, even if it doesn't provide an ideal context. Nevertheless, This Is Jazz doesn't intend to provide context, which will undoubtedly frustrate collectors and jazz purists. However, it does succeed in offering an affordable sampler of his classic Columbia recordings for curious listeners, and it succeeds quite well in that regard.~Stephen Thomas Erlewine