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The album is a collaboration between Mitchell and Charles Mingus. It was recorded in the months before and after Mingus' death in January 1979 and is wholly dedicated to him. The album is one of Mitchell's most experimental and jazz -centric works. Mingus originally wrote six compositions (entitled "Joni I-VI") for Mitchell to write lyrics for ...
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The first time I saw his face it shone up at me with a joyous mischief. I liked him immediately I had come to New York to hear six new songs he had written for me. I was honored! I was curious! It was as if I had been standing by a river – one toe in the water – feeling it out – and Charlie came by and pushed me in – "sink or Swim" – him laughing a...
Jun 13, 2022 · Mingus, therefore, is not only an elegy for the dying jazz icon, but it is also the final hurrah of Mitchell’s expansive, creative decade – the crowning album of one of the most innovative periods of any artist. Buy Joni Mitchell vinyl, box sets and more and the Dig! Store. A unique collaboration between Joni Mitchell and Charles Mingus ...
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Mingus is the tenth studio album by Joni Mitchell in collaboration which the late jazz musician Charles Mingus. It is one of the final albums Charles Mingus recorded before his death. “Mingus” Q&A
Mingus by Joni Mitchell released in 1979. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Still, Mingus (1979) holds considerable interest for Mitchell fans, both in terms of its historical value and for the haunting, risk-taking nature of the music itself. There’s both an air of intoxication and a pervasive note of sadness to these tracks, as if Joni is serenading Charles’ ghost in some otherworldly nightclub.
October 1979. Joni Mitchell's album "Mingus" is going to catch considerable flak for being ponderous where the late Charles Mingus was light-hearted, for being uptight where he was loose, and for being un-Mingus-like in general. And the flak launchers will be right, in their *own* context. I'm no Mingus expert, but my impression is that, in ...
