Mingus Ah Um topic
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Mingus Ah Um is a jazz album by Charles Mingus, recorded and released on Columbia Records in 1959.
The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD calls this album "an extended tribute to ancestors" (and awards it one of their rare crowns), and Mingus's musical forebears figure largely throughout. "Better Get Hit In Yo' Soul" is inspired by gospel singing and preaching of the sort that Mingus would have heard as a child growing up in Watts, Los Angeles, California, while "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" is a reference ...
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