Charles Mingus - Tijuana Moods [The Master Takes] torrent

Charles Mingus’ “Tijuana Moods” (1957) was ahead of its time, a "concept" jazz album in which the great bassist combined improvisation and composition to make a 36-minute suite that still sounds immediate and abrasive. It anticipates both the sophistication of “Kind of Blue” and the rawness of 1960s "new thing", yet it remained unreleased until 1962 while RCA concentrated on Elvis Presley.

“Tijuana Moods” comprises two ten-minute tone poems – “Ysabel's Table Dance” and “Los Mariachis” - framed by two idiosyncratic standards (“Dizzy Moods”, adapted from Gillespie's “Woody 'n' You”, and “Flamingo”) with the short but labyrinthine “Tijuana Gift Shop” in the middle.

This is jazz composition of the highest order, in which improvisation - wild, controlled, sublime - is an integral part of Mingus's scores, with their complex part-writing, extended harmonies and constant variation of tempo and feel. “Tijuana Moods” looks ahead to Mingus's later masterpiece, “The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady.” Indispensable.


Charles Mingus

Tijuana Moods (The Master Takes)

Recorded in 1957, released in 1962


CD / 2011 / Remastered / 320Kbps


Tracklist:

1. Dizzy Moods

2. Ysabel's Table Dance

3. Tijuana Gift Shop

4. Los Mariachis

5. Flamingo


Recorded on July 18 and August 6, 1957 in RCA Victor's Studio A in New York City


Personnel:

Charles Mingus, leader, bass

Clarence Shaw, trumpet

Jimmy Knepper, trombone

Shafi Hadi, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone

Bill Triglia, piano

Dannie Richmond, drums

Ysabel Morel, castanets, vocals

Frankie Dunlop, percussion

Lonnie Elder, vocals


Charles Mingus
Tijuana Moods
Recorded in 1957, released in 1962