Mingus, Charles - Blues & Roots (Atlantic 75 Series, 180 Gram, 45 RPM, 2LP) Everything Harmony

Mingus, Charles - Blues & Roots (Atlantic 75 Series, 180 Gram, 45 RPM, 2LP) Everything HarmonyAtlantic 75 Historic Reissue Series from Analogue Productions! AllMusic marks Charles Mingus' Blues & Roots as a rejoinder to the critical carping that the virtuoso bass player and accomplished jazz pianist and bandleader and his evocative music "somehow didn't swing enough." For this album Mingus turned to the earthiest and earliest sources of black musical expression blues, gospel, and old time New Orleans jazz. The resulting album ranks arguably as

while guitar solos and choral vocals soar over a rock orchestral backing across 16 tracks

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The proto synth-pop (or synth-rock) song was used as the theme to a popular German television show

He also won Best Male Pop Vocal Performance

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James Howard – guitar

Pharaoh Sanders added groove to the foundation of spiritual and free jazz he had explored on his previous Impulse

She described the album as addressing themes of heartbreak

it's a paean to creation and destruction and the unending cycle of life

or a clueless significant other

but wasn't the sound of any specific band from the era

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