Artist...............: Charles Mingus
Album................: Pithecanthropus Erectus
Genre................: Jazz
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 1956
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 37 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........: TntVillage
Ripped by............: Leonenero on 01/11/2016
Posted by............: Leonenero on 01/11/2016
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Included.............: NFO, MD5, LOG, CUE
Covers...............: Front Back CD
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Tracklisting
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1. Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus [10:36]
2. Charles Mingus - A Foggy Day [07:50]
3. Charles Mingus - Profile of Jackie [03:11]
4. Charles Mingus - Love Chant [14:54]
Playing Time.........: 36:32
Total Size...........: 140,30 MB
The album's four tracks (about forty minutes of music) are each classics in their own right-- three Mingus originals and one Gershwin standard ("A Foggy Day"). All four feature fantastic arrangements, in particular the Gershwin piece that finds Mingus at his most inventive-- tenor sax fog horns, alto siren wails, scratching basses, slide whistles and so on. But in between these excursions is a fantastic swing and a monster bass solo.
But as good as this is, its probably the title track that's best known-- a difficult, start-stop rhythmic piece with bizarre tempo changes and fierce group improvisation, its justifiably considered one of the greats in Mingus' catalog. The remaining two tracks ("Profile of Jackie" and "Love Chant") are no slouches either-- the former features a brilliant, wailing theme stated on alto, the latter starts as a rolling piano ballad before breaking into a fierce swing for the solo sections.
