Album description
1 audio disc : digital ; 12 cm. -- (Ken Burns jazz)Columbia/Legacy: CK 61448.
Principally composed by Charles Mingus.
Issued in conjunction with the PBS documentary; contains previously released material.
Charles Mingus, bass, piano, vocals ; with additional musicians.
Recorded 1957-1971.
Biographical notes by Brian Priestley ([12] pages : portraits), inserted.
Contents: Haitian fight song -- Goodbye pork pie hat -- Better get hit in your soul -- Original Faubus fables -- Peggy’s blue skylight -- Eat that chicken -- Solo dancer--stop! look! and listen, sinner Jim Whitney (The black saint and the sinner lady) -- Mood indigo / E.K. Ellington, B. Bigard -- The shoes of the fisherman’s wife are some jive ass slippers.
Genre
| 1. | Jazz (Television program) |
| 2. | Jazz--1951-1960 |
| 3. | Jazz--1961-1970 |
Performers
| 1. | Mingus, Charles, 1922-1979 |