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...Mingus: Oh Yeah (Atlantic). Musical anarchy and social commentary mixed into a fascinating trouble-pudding by fretful Charlie...
Negro Bass Player Charlie Mingus is a talented, successful and angry man-so angry, in fact, that he planned to leave for an island in the Mediterranean and never return to the U.S. Mingus changed his mind, but the anger remains. It is shared in some degree by many Negro jazz musicians, and its major cause is anti-Negro prejudice in a field that Negroes regard as their own. Its result is the regrettable kind of reverse segregation known as Crow Jim-a feeling that the white man has no civil rights when it comes to jazz...
...Mingus and others, jazz is far more than music. It is a shared heritage, a symbol of achievement, a language in which to tell what Negro Drummer Max Roach calls "the dramatic story of our people and what we've been through." It is also a private language. Through jazz, Negro Pianist Billy Taylor points out, the Negro has always been able "to say many things musically that would never have been accepted by a white American had he verbalized them...
...Charlie Mingus denies that Crow Jim exists: "How can you talk about Crow-Jim and look at Mississippi?" And, adds Negro Pianist Horace Silver: "The whites started crying Crow Jim when the public got hip that Negroes play the best jazz." Nonetheless, believes Silver, the differ ence between soul or "funk" music and other varieties of jazz is the difference between talking "colored" and ordinary English-and only a Negro musician can feel it. "It is murder today for white jazz players. Negro clubs just won't play them." says Impresario George Wein. White Pianist Paul Winter...
...Charlie Mingus has developed the most intensely personal, large-souled, and complete body of music in modern jazz. Before you speak out against such a categorical statement, pick up Mingus Presents Mingus (Candid 8005) and give another listen to Mingus Ah Um (Columbia...