![]() ![]() (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BETTER GIT HIT IN YOUR SOUL")ĬHARLES MINGUS: (Singing, inaudible). The project invokes '70s jazz rock sensibilities as much as Mingus' rollicking churchiness (ph). Mingus played some old faves with an expanded cast, including three young electric guitarists also heard on the Atlantic label. WHITEHEAD: The 1977 album "Three Or Four Shades Of Blues" was one for the record company. (SOUNDBITE OF CHARLES MINGUS' "CUMBIA AND JAZZ FUSION") Over the top, the quintet's trumpeter Jack Walrath and Mingus vet Jimmy Knepper preached the blues. ![]() WHITEHEAD: In 1976 and 7, expanded Mingus groups recorded a couple of thematically rich film scores that didn't get used but made up his last great album, "Cumbia And Jazz Fusion." One episode on the title track got a strong buzz from a low-down trio - contrabass clarinet, bass trombone and bassoon. (SOUNDBITE OF CHARLES MINGUS' "DUKE ELLINGTON'S SOUND OF LOVE") Tenor saxophonist George Adams blew howling free jazz solos, gut bucket blues and sanctified gospel and had a way with a rapturous ballad like Mingus' bow to the master called "Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love." WHITEHEAD: Charles Mingus' quintet with his most simpatico drummer, Dannie Richmond and Don Pullen on piano. (SOUNDBITE OF CHARLES MINGUS' "SUE'S CHANGES") One is an ode to his devoted wife, Susan Graham Mingus, "Sue's Changes." The quintet's first album was so-so, but they burned bright on 1974 sessions for the LPs "Changes One" and "Changes Two." Those albums include four late-period Mingus classics. KEVIN WHITEHEAD, BYLINE: "Opus 4," 1973, from the seven-CD Charles Mingus box "Changes: The Complete 1970s Atlantic Studio Recordings." In that period, he led his last great working quintet before his health declined. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead has a listen. A new box set collects his '70s Atlantic records. He'd stay with the label till his death in 1979. In 1973, jazz composer and bass virtuoso Charles Mingus signed his last recording contract with Atlantic Records. ![]()
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