One song on this album opens with fast triplets in the saxophone section before the main theme, a fast 4/4 shuffle, is introduced.
One song on this album opens with fast triplets in the saxophone section before the main theme, a fast 4/4 shuffle, is introduced.This album's closing track begins with a solo trombone, which continues playing over the main theme with heavyglissandos. This album opens with a song in a fast 3/4 time that features some indiscernible shouting throughout. It's notTime Out, but this album's S. Neil Fujita-designed cover art features some abstract geometrical shapes. One song on this albumis a twelve-bar blues that goes from stop time to shuffle and back. "Better Git it In Your Soul" and "Jelly Roll" are theÂfirst and last tracks on this album, but the most famous tracks on it are a slow "elegy" for Lester Young and one which wasrecorded as instrumental due to the label's objections over its lyrics, addressed to a Governor of Arkansas. For 10 points, namethis 1959 jazz album containing "Goodbye Pork-Pie Hat" and "Fables of Faubus," whose title puns on the Latin declension ofthe surname of its composer, Charles Mingus.
One song on this album opens with fast triplets in the saxophone section before the main theme, a fast 4/4 shuffle, is introduced.
Mingus Ah Um