Comments on: Jazz http://teabowl.net/2009/03/27/jazz/ Carsten Knoch's blog Sat, 03 Jul 2010 05:23:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: RK http://teabowl.net/2009/03/27/jazz/comment-page-1/#comment-341 RK Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:41:35 +0000 http://teabowl.net/2009/03/27/jazz/#comment-341 Hey Cartsen, how's it hanging? If you haven't yet, give Charles Mingus a whirl. People normally think of him as 'out there', which he was, but his music is not as 'out there' as one would expect. Start with 'Ah-um' and the Paris Live recording (I think it was 1964). The latter was pirated for many years until his wife decided to step in and started Revenge Records to publish all the bootleg and pirate stuff. She's been known to visit music stores in Europe and walk out with piles of bootleg Mingus CDs. Dunno how far Revenge Records got, but yeah, those bootlegs can confuse even the avid fan - lots of repetition and renaming. Well, after those two, you can perhaps step into 'Black saint and the Sinner Lady' and take it further. Hey Cartsen, how’s it hanging? If you haven’t yet, give Charles Mingus a whirl. People normally think of him as ‘out there’, which he was, but his music is not as ‘out there’ as one would expect. Start with ‘Ah-um’ and the Paris Live recording (I think it was 1964). The latter was pirated for many years until his wife decided to step in and started Revenge Records to publish all the bootleg and pirate stuff. She’s been known to visit music stores in Europe and walk out with piles of bootleg Mingus CDs.

Dunno how far Revenge Records got, but yeah, those bootlegs can confuse even the avid fan – lots of repetition and renaming.

Well, after those two, you can perhaps step into ‘Black saint and the Sinner Lady’ and take it further.

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