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                   Charles Mingus - Blues & Roots
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Artist...............: Charles Mingus
Album................: Blues & Roots
Genre................: Jazz
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 1959
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 61 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........: TntVillage

Ripped by............: Leonenero on 22/09/2016
Posted by............: Leonenero on 23/09/2016
News Server..........: news.astraweb.com
News Group(s)........: TntVillage

Included.............: NFO, MD5, M3U, LOG, CUE
Covers...............: Front Back CD 

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                       Tracklisting
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1. Charles Mingus - Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting [05:43]
2. Charles Mingus - Cryin' Blues [05:03]
3. Charles Mingus - Moanin' [08:02]
4. Charles Mingus - Tensions [06:30]
5. Charles Mingus - My Jelly Roll Soul [06:50]
6. Charles Mingus - E's Flat Ah's Flat Too [06:42]

Playing Time.........: 38:51
Total Size...........: 239,83 MB

I'm still unsure why “Mingus Ah Um” comes to everyone so highly recommended when this came out just a year later and covers everything that album does much more concisely and interestingly. That album had a lot of tracks which tweedled on and didn't go anywhere particularly interesting - this one recognizes that and contains six tracks, and not one of them doesn't deserve a place on here.
Tracks like “Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting” and “Moanin'” are some of the best I've heard from 60s jazz, and they all just present this fantastically chilled out image. It also displays next to none of the avant-garde experimentation which would become his forte, despite what the sub-genres here would have you believe. Normally I'm of the opinion that an album is best when it's experimenting and pushing new boundaries, but honestly I think this album still pushes that boundaries but in the direction of opening up new ideas within post-bop, not tearing it all down and starting over again like his later work suggests.
While Mingus's discography is obviously very intimidating, and I can't pretend I'm anywhere close to hearing it all, this has to be an absolutely essential cornerstone of it