{"product_id":"mingus-charlie-oh-yeah-4260019716149","title":"MINGUS,CHARLIE - OH YEAH Vinyl LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExpected: 9\/4\/26\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCommenting on this album in 1962, \u003cem\u003eBillboard\u003c\/em\u003e magazine wrote: \"He seems to be everywhere, everywhere that is but on his usual instrument\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharles Mingus, one of the most impressive musicians in the history of jazz, doesn't play a single note on the bass for a change, but leads the band from his (blues-)piano - the instrument that he always used for composing. He hits the keys, he sings the blues, he shouts and he encourages - apparently Mingus really found the need to express himself loudly in this album. (Doug Watkins stood in for him on the contrabass.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOh Yeah\u003c\/em\u003e is definitely Mingus's most powerful and passionate album. He calls on two hot, intensive saxophonists - Roland Kirk and Booker Ervin - as well as Jimmy Knepper on the trombone. Kirk is the main soloist, but all three wind-players deliver expressive improvisations, carrying out a non-stop dialogue with one another, and pushing one other to achieve maximum energy. The music is wild and ecstatic, but it's not free jazz, remaining - as it does - grounded in blues and gospel. \"Hog Callin' Blues\" is an enthralling shuffle with a wealth of riffs, \"Devil Woman\" a clever slow blues with inventive wind figures. \"Ecclusiastics,\" with its constant change of rhythm and expression alternating between gospel and blues, has the most complex form. Blues has always been a part of a black church service, said Mingus. \"Eat That Chicken\" (a homage to Fats Waller and his favorite food) even plays around with an old-time, Dixie feeling. Humor is never far away. Even in the atomic bomb song (this too, a sort of churchy blues) one hears the words: \"Don't let 'em drop it! Stop it! Be-bop it!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Speakers Corner LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the master tapes through to the cutting head.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracks: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSide One:\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHog Callin' Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDevil Woman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWham Bam Thank You Ma'am\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSide Two:\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEcclusiastics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEat That Chicken\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePassions Of A Man\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Speakers Corner\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Experience Vinyl Preorder","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51989738979613,"sku":"SSCQ1377.1","price":59.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2236\/3463\/files\/mingus.webp?v=1783523046","url":"https:\/\/experiencevinyl.com\/products\/mingus-charlie-oh-yeah-4260019716149","provider":"Experience Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}