Mingus gets down to the roots of the matter
On 4 February 1959 bassist Charles Mingus took with a group of top class jazz musicians into the Atlantic Records studio to record a "barrage of soul music: churchy, blues, swinging, earthy" to quote his own words, and the result is the magnificent "Blues and Roots", an album which gets me shouting and moaning myself whenever I listen to it (which, I have to admit, is quite often!).
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