Charles Mingus | The Rare Albums Collection (4cd) | 4CD

Charles Mingus was an American jazz double bass player, pianist, composer, bandleader and civil rights activist, born in Nogales, Arizona, on 22 April 1922. His profile credits him as a pioneer of double bass technique, of overdubbing, and of cutting up and reassembling tapes of different takes in the studio. He died in Cuernavaca, Mexico, in 1979, and wrote the autobiographical novel 'Beneath the Underdog'.

This is a four disc compilation of Charles Mingus recordings, issued on the Enlightenment label in 2019 under the title The Rare Albums Collection. It gathers albums first released between 1952 and 1964 on labels including Swingtime, Atlantic, Candid, Impulse, Jazz Workshop and Fantasy. The set includes The Young Rebel, Mingus at Antibes, Mingus Plays Piano and Mingus at Monterey.

Track List

Disc 1

1. This Subdues My Passion
2. Honey, Take A Chance With Me
3. Story Of Love
4. He’s Gone
5. Precognition
6. Portrait
7. Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting
8. Prayer For Passive Resistance
9. What Love
10. I'll Remember April
11. Folk Forms
12. Better Git Hit In Your Soul

Disc 2

1. Reincarnation Of A Lovebird No.2
2. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)
3. R&R
4. Bugs
5. Myself When I Am Real
6. I Can't Get Started
7. Body And Soul
8. Roland Kirk's Message
9. Memories Of You
10. She’s Just Miss Popular Hybrid
11. Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress, Then Silk Blues
12. Meditations For Moses
13. Old Portrait
14. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
15. Compositional Theme Story: Medleys, Anthems And Folklore

Disc 3

1. So Long Eric
2. Praying With Eric
3. New Fables
4. Meditation (For a Pair of Wire Cutters)

Disc 4

1. Duke Ellington Medley: 1. I've Got It Bad
2. In A Sentimental Mood
3. All Too Soon
4. Mood Indigo
5. Sophisticated Lady
6. A Train
7. Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk
8. Meditations On Integration