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Mingus  | 80% Recommended by our customers. Label: Elektra / Wea Catalog: Music Release date: 1979-01-01 Media: Audio CD discs number: 1 Ean: 0075596055727 Upc: 075596055727  Tip: compare prices with similar music CDsArtist:
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 Happy Birthday 1975 - Joni Mitchell, Mitchell, Joni God Must Be a Boogie Man - Joni Mitchell, Mitchell, Joni Funeral - Joni Mitchell, Mitchell, Joni | A Chair in the Sky - Joni Mitchell, Mingus, Charles The Wolf That Lives in Lindsey - Joni Mitchell, Mitchell, Joni Sweet Sucker Dance - Joni Mitchell, Mitchell, Joni | The Dry Cleaner from des Moines - Joni Mitchell, Mingus, Charles Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Joni Mitchell, Mingus, Charles |
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 Written on November 13, 2005 Summary: A wonderful jazz euphoria. 1979's "Mingus" is a fun & dreamy jazz influenced record that any diehard Joni fan will adore. Greatly influenced by the jazz legend himself, Charles Mingus, Joni embraces her jazz side full on. Crooning smooth & blissfully on atmosphereic numbers like "A Chair In The Sky" & "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat". It also features a hauntingly beautiful song, "The Wolf That Lives In Lindsey", Which feautures fustrated & passionate acoustic guitar pounding that send rythmic chills down your spine. There are many hilarious & endearing skits of dialog inbetween each song that add to the old school jazz feel of this masterwork, but never spill into the songs, so you can enjoy each one individually. On the afore mentioned self-penned song "The Wolf That Lives in Lindsey" she darkly observes: "Of the darkness in men's minds What can you say That wasn't marked by history Or the TV news today He gets away with murder The blizzards come and go The stab and glare and buckshot Of the heavy heavy snow It comes and goes It comes and goes" "Mingus" is a wild & unique gem in Joni's catalogue. it's very much well worth it. Highly recommended. Written on May 8, 2005 Summary: Joni's most unusual collection.... All these years after this 1979 release I still shake my head why this came across in such a negative light. I guess this wasn't the time people were ready to expand their minds. After all it was 1979, Disco music was at its height, Rock music was soaring/expanding and punk was just about to explode and singer/songwriters were being squeezed out of the seen and the 80's was just about their death nail. Joni Mitchell was an artists right from the start that continually expanded her musical palette and I just couldn't understand why such a musical genius got herself stuck forever in such a firestorm. When I listen to this now, MINGUS is full of brillant moments, vocally as well as the guitars, bass, horns just some of the most challenging jazz/pop hybrid sounds. I can't recall anything quite like this at the time. Joni had some pipes on her and a one of a kind guitar style. I believe the late 70's vocally were her finest moments, to bad she listened to her critics and turned inward and bitter, what would she have become if she just let it all go and moved on. She was by far the most gifted of her peers. Just listen to some of these haunting, underated gems and mix it up on a cd burn with your other favorite music, it stand right out.  Written on February 12, 2005 Summary: Jaco the Great. I never liked Joni Mitchell. I just don't like her voice or her music. This album didn't make me like her more. The only reason I bought it is Jaco Pastorius, who plays bass here. I wasn't dissappointed, his playing is as good, as inspiering and as educating as always. However, it's not a very good Jazz album. Mitchell has grouped together some of her time's finest Jazz cats. Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shoter, Jaco. However, except for Jaco, none of this guys don't get to really show what he can do. Joni pretendes to be a jazz singer, which she ain't, and her voice kills every drop of jazz around. Mingus' tunes are as good as always, but I think that without Joni Mitchell it would've been a much better album. I also think that if they'd put in more tunes, in addition, or instead most of the spoken parts, it could've been better. Written on January 23, 2005 Summary: A satisfying musical journey Over the years I've gotten weary of people ragging on Mingus because it doesn't meet their expectations - it doesn't sound like Joni Mitchell should, it doesn't sound like Mingus would have wanted it to, it doesn't sound like jazz should, etc., etc. Listeners should get over all that and appreciate it for what it is - a challening, beautiful, eclectic, and even mystical musical journey. It's holding up beautifully all these years later.  Written on December 21, 2004 Summary: Embarrassing According to the liner notes, Joni Mitchell was asked by Charles Mingus to put lyrics to some of his tunes. That's what she should have attempted to do; she should have attempted to put straight lyrics to them, NOT lyrics ABOUT Mingus, and she should have attempted to sing them straight and not sing "jazz". I don't say she's hopeless as a jazz singer, but if she wanted to sing jazz, she should have recorded an album of standards (standards that already had lyrics, that is). The musicians here do a fine job, especially Jaco and Herbie (some great horn arranging by Jaco, by the way), but that's the accompaniment. Joni's lyrics are embarrassing and her singing seems pretentious and phony. In any case, this record simply doesn't work, and it ain't a-happening--which is why it was received unfavorably in its day and continues to be received unfavorably (except by Internet fetishists), to the extent it isn't ignored completely. |
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| Catalog | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music |
| Release date | 1979-01-01 | 1990-10-25 | 1990-10-25 | 1990-10-25 | 1990-10-25 | 1990-10-25 |
| Media | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD |
| discs number | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Format | - | - | - | - | Live | - |
| Ean | 0075596055727 | 0075596058728 | 0075596061421 | 0755960606228 | 0075596059022 | 0075992719926 |
| Upc | 075596055727 | 755960587282 | 755960614216 | 755960606228 | 075596059022 | 075992719926 |
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