His Final Work

His Final Work Artist: Charles Mingus
Label: Who's Who in Jazz
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 010592100521
EAN: 0010592100521
ASIN: B0000000VC


Release Date: 2000-04-04

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Listmania:

  1. Way Out Jazz Only For The Most Imaginative Listeners.

Tracks:

  1. Peggy's Blue Skylight
  2. Fables Of Faubus
  3. Caroline Keikki Mingus
  4. Slop
  5. So Long Eric
  6. Farewell Farwell
  7. Just For Laughs Pt.1
  8. It Might As Well Be Spring
  9. Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love
  10. Just For Laughs Pt.2

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Pretty boring for being Mingus.......2001-03-02

For being a Mingus album I'd say it's pretty boring. It's not a bad album, but it lacks the edge, the attitude, the wildness of records like "Ah Um", "Blues & Roots" and "Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus". You can clearly hear that this is Mingus' compositions and arrangements, there are some decent solos too, but it just doesn't have the... the... soul, go and joyful wild attitude that, to me, is what Charles Mingus is about. It feels a bit like "Mingus goes easy listening" or something... Way to clean and sort of laid back for my liking!

I'm not a jazz expert in any way, but Mingus is the one who brought me in to it, and this is not the Mingus I learned to know. That doesn't have to mean that this is a poor album, but I just can't recommend it, at least not if you're after something representative. For those of you who already owns the majority of his albums; Well, you might give it a try...

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