Artist: Charles Mingus
Album: Charles Mingus' Finest Hour
Genre: Post-Bop, Hard Bop
Label: Verve
Released: 2002
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Tracklist:
- Jump Monk (From "Dream Montage") 02:51
- Mingus Fingers (Single Version) 03:06
- Theme For Lester Young (Album Version) 05:50
- If I Love Again 02:25
- Bemoanable Lady 04:23
- Weird Nightmare 03:37
- Zoo-Baba-Da-Oo-Ee 02:35
- Old Portrait (Album Version) 03:45
- Prayer For Passive Resistance 03:50
- Consider Me 03:19
- Freedom 05:10
- A Sleepin' Bee (Album Version) 04:39
- Track C - Group Dancers (Soul Fusion) Freewoman And Oh, This Freedom's Slave Cries (Album Version) 07:20
- Better Get Hit In Yo' Soul (Album Long Version) 06:28
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Charles Mingus' Finest Hour, while a fine and eccentric collection of music, is only his finest hour of music on the labels owned by Universal-Emarcy, Mercury, Verve, and a few others. These include sessions where Lionel Hampton ( and not Mingus) was the bandleader. No matter. The majority, and the best of the material here, comes from the wonderful Pre-Bird set issued on Emarcy with Ted Curson, Marcus Belgrave and many others in a 25-piece orchestra that played Mingus compositions written before he met Charlie Parker. The other stuff comes from live concerts including some fine European sounds with Eric Dolphy, and some of the Bethlehem material. This is a decent look at a strange period between periods -- between Atlantic and Columbia -- for the giant one.
Review by Thom Jurek