Charles Mingus Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus

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• Back on Columbia Records, bassist Charles Mingus hadn’t been allowed to put vocal passages caricaturing controversial Arkansas governor Orval Faubus on his 1959 LP Mingus Ah Um, so he made its “Fables of Faubus” an instrumental. Of course, he could say it all on Candid’s Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus, here retitling the piece “Original Faubus Fables” due to contractual concerns involving Columbia. Temperamental Mingus is quoted, “(A) lot of jazz records don’t make it because guys almost unconsciously change their approach in a studio from what they do every night. I finally wanted to make an album the way we are on the job,” so the studio recording is presented as a stage show with Mingus even instructing the nonexistent audience and bar staff on p