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Mitchell is backed on the album by Jaco Pastorius (who had also contributed to Mitchell's two previous albums) on fretless bass, Wayne Shorter on saxophone, Herbie Hancock on electric piano, Peter Erskine on drums and Don Alias on percussion.
Charles Mingus was dying when he saw Joni Mitchell in blackface. The great jazz bassist and composer had railed against racism in his autobiography, Beneath The Underdog. But Mitchell's minstrelsy on the cover of Don Juan's Reckless Daughter got his attention.
8 de jul. de 2019 · Mingus, no matter how wonderfully virtuosic Herbie Hancock or Pastorius may have been, would no doubt have preferred entirely acoustic arrangements – but, as he would have known, you don’t enlist Joni Mitchell without expecting a Joni Mitchell record.
Mingus having been a bassist, you'd think the bass of Jaco Pastorius (of Weather Report) would have a leading role, but here it's just another bass. On the other hand, there's something to be said for putting this tight a rein on Herbie Hancock.
13 de jun. de 2022 · Mingus is one of the most unusual collaborations in musical history – both in gestation and in the sound of the finished product. It was the definite closure to the career of one of the partners, and a chalk mark ending the experimental era of the other. “I was after something personal – something indescribable”
19 de may. de 2017 · Hancock and Shorter add decorative ripples, while Joni the singer flexes her Annie Ross fantasies, with some bright, brief scatting, and arcing croons. Of the two other Mingus/Mitchell originals, "Sweet Sucker Dance" investigates the vulnerability of Mingus in love, adding a measure of Mitchell's own affection: "You're such a sweet ...
1 de abr. de 2022 · Recorded just months before the bassist's death from ALS, this astounding 3 disc set (Disc 3, overseen by Herbie Hancock and Quincy Jones is a 2021 Dolby Atmos remaster of Mitchell's watermark Mingus (Asylum, 1979)) is curated by none other than Mingus' widow Sue Mingus and Mitchell herself, with help from long time Mitchell ...
