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Mitchell is backed on the album by Jaco Pastorius (who had also contributed to Mitchell's two previous albums) on fretless bass, Wayne Shorter on saxophone, Herbie Hancock on electric piano, Peter Erskine on drums and Don Alias on percussion. Mingus received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics and peaked at number 17 in the US. "The Dry ...
- 1978–1979
- Jazz fusion
- June 13, 1979
- Joni Mitchell
The Music of Jaco. Joni Mitchell: Mingus. Share: +. Charles Mingus had called upon Joni Mitchell in the last months of his life to work on a musical version of T.S. Elliot’s Four Quartets, a project which ultimately was scrapped but served as the catalyst to Joni’s “Mingus” album.
John Francis "Jaco" Pastorius III (/ ˈ dʒ ɑː k oʊ p æ ˈ s t ɔːr i ə s /; December 1, 1951 – September 21, 1987) was an American jazz bassist, composer, and producer. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential bassists of all time, [2] Pastorius recorded albums as a solo artist, band leader, and as a member of the ...
Mingus couldn't have known how ready Mitchell was for such a request in 1978. The free-flowing structures and fleeting abrasions of The Hissing Of Summer Lawns had flirted with jazz, Hejira had been an intimate musical affair with Weather Report bassist Jaco Pastorius, and Don Juan ... had bust down all the boundaries around her work.
Jul 9, 2019 · Mitchell began recording with Jaco Pastorius on her 1976 LP Hejira, so by the time work began on the Mingus project they had an already established rapport, both in the studio and, for a brief time, romantically as well. "I had peculiar ideas about what the bass should do," Mitchell told JazzTimes. "So I had real trouble with bass players. I ...
Dec 1, 2023 · December 1, 2023. By. Martin Johnson. Photo: Tom Copi/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. Jaco Pastorius often told people that he was the greatest bass player in the world. During his brief,...
Jun 13, 2022 · Back. Jeanette Leech. 13 June 2022. “This was a difficult but challenging project,” Joni Mitchell wrote in the sleevenotes to her 1979 album, Mingus. “I was trying to please Charlie and still be true to myself.” Mingus is one of the most unusual collaborations in musical history – both in gestation and in the sound of the finished product.
