{"product_id":"charlie-mingus-oh-yeah-lp-speakers-corner-180g-audiophile-edition","title":"Charlie Mingus - Oh Yeah LP (Speakers Corner 180g Audiophile Edition) ( VINYL )","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCommenting on this album in 1962,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBillboard\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emagazine 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 here 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\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlues has always been a part of a black church service, said Mingus. \"Eat That Chicken\" (a homage to Fats Waller and his favourite 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. More information under www.pure-analogue.com. All royalties and mechanical rights have been paid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecording: November 1961 at Atlantic Studios, New York City, by Tom Dowd and Phil Iehle\u003cbr\u003eProduction: Nesuhi Ertegun\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"32 - Elusive Disc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56731933016437,"sku":"4260019716149","price":7.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8300\/2485\/files\/AATL_1377__9365__04042022022152-8703.jpg?v=1770889375","url":"https:\/\/warmvibevinyls.com\/products\/charlie-mingus-oh-yeah-lp-speakers-corner-180g-audiophile-edition","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}