Mingus,Charles Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus CD

This is perhaps the most cohesive set Mingus ever made, recorded during a crisis of personnel in 1960. After many months with Mingus, Eric Dolphy and Ted Curson had decided to leave. These sessions and a few to follow for Mingus and the Jazz Artists Guild were to be their last tie with Mingus. He decided to set the mood that might resemble a night in the club, hence his announcements on the recording and the reason he wanted the lights turned out during the recording. For once, in these sessions, everyone in a Mingus unit reached and maintained that level of daring to make their instruments become extensions of themselves.

1. Folk Forms, No.1 2. Original Faubus Fables 3. What Love 4. All the Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother