Mingus, Charlie

Jazz Composers Workshop

By now, it's well understood that Charlie Mingus was never just a bassist he was a visionary composer, an architect of chaos and clarity, and one of jazz's most defiant innovators. With roots in hard bop, threads from classical modernism, gospel, and the radical freedom of the avant-garde, Mingus built a musical language all his own furious, tender, explosive. Jazz Composers Workshop, first released in 1956 by Savoy, may not carry the seismic weight of Pithecanthropus Erectus (which Mingus would record just a year later), but the sparks are already flying. These sessions were originally spread across two 10-inch releases Moods of Mingus and Cirillo & Scott (the latter credited to Walter Cirillo and Bobby Scott).

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