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Charles Mingus

Statements (LP)

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1980 Italian re-issue on Lotus/Passport's "Jazz" series of the 1977 album on Joker Japan with recordings from 1969.

condition (record/cover): EX / VG+ (general wear)

The Italian budget labels of the seventies did a considerable service to European collectors by licensing, repackaging and occasionally simply borrowing American jazz recordings that were otherwise unobtainable. Statements is one of those: Charles Mingus material gathered up and issued on Lotus with minimal ceremony and priced for people who could not afford imports. The music survives the treatment. Mingus at any point in his career is one of the two or three most identifiable sounds in the whole art form, and no amount of sloppy packaging obscures the bass, the writing or the anger.

Italian Lotus pressing. Budget-label archaeology of the kind Italian collectors will recognise immediately.

Details
File under: Hard Bop
Cat. number: LPPS 11.108
Year: 1980

Release notes

Recorded 1969, Amsterdam.

Tracklist
A1Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress18:05
B1The Man Who Never Sleeps16:30
B2O.P.8:40
Credits
Charles McPherson
Alto Saxophone
Charles Mingus
Bass, Written-By
Dannie Richmond
Drums
K. Abe
Photography By, Design [Album]
Jaki Byard
Piano
Bobby Jones
Tenor Saxophone
Eddie Preston
Trumpet

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