 Name: Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah UmGenre: Jazz Release Date: 1959 Format: mp3 Quality: 320 Kbps Size: 166 MB Duration: 60:12 Description: Mingus Ah Um is one of the supreme works of bassist Charles Mingus. Recorded in 1959 on Columbia Records, Mingus Ah Um built upon bebop conventions to create a masterpiece, at times roiling and dissonant, and at times pristinely beautiful. 
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Audio / Jazz, Soul & Funk → Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
19 June 2011
Audio / Jazz, Soul & Funk → Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
18 June 2011
 Name: Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner LadyGenre: Jazz Release Date: 1963 Format: Mp3 Quality: 320 Kbps Size: 90 Mb Duration: 39:25 Description: Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist. Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music. Yet Mingus avoided categorization, forging his own brand of music that fused tradition with unique and unexplored realms of jazz. The Black Saintand the Sinner Lady is often characterized by jazz and music critics as one of Mingus's two major masterworks (the other being Mingus Ah Um) and has frequently ranked highly on lists of the best albums of all time. Steve Huey of allmusic awarded The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady five stars out of five and described the album as "one of the greatest achievements in orchestration by any composer in jazz history." As of June 2011, the album is ranked #15 on RateYourMusic's "Top Albums of All-time" list.
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