Charles Mingus Oh Yeah (Speakers Corner)

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• Commenting on this album in 1962, Billboard magazine wrote: He seems to be everywhere, everywhere that is but on his usual instrument. Charles Mingus, one of the most impressive musicians in the history of jazz, doesnt 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.) “Oh Yeah” is definitely Minguss 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