Title: Oh Yeah
Artist: Charlie Mingus
Label: Speakers Corner
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 4260019716149
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2026-09-04
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: 180 GRAM VINYL, REISSUE

Commenting on this album in 1962, Billboard magazine wrote: He seems to be everywhere, everywhere that is but on his usual instrument. Charles Mingus, one of the most impressive musicians in the history of jazz, doesn’t play a single note on the bass for a change, but leads the band from his (blues-)piano – the instrument that he always used for composing. He hits the keys, he sings the blues, he shouts and he encourages – apparently Mingus really found the need to express himself loudly in this album. (Doug Watkins stood in for him on the contrabass. ) “Oh Yeah” is definitely Mingus’s most powerful and passionate album. He calls on two hot, intensive saxophonists – Roland Kirk and Booker Ervin – as well as Jimmy Knepper on the trombone. Kirk is the main soloist, but all three wind-players deliver expressive improvisations, carrying out a non-stop dialogue with one another, and pushing one other to achieve maximum energy. The music is wild and ecstatic, but it’s not free jazz, remaining – as it does – grounded in blues and gospel. “Hog Callin’ Blues” is an enthralling shuffle with a wealth of riffs, “Devil Woman” a clever slow blues with inventive wind figures. “Ecclusiastics”, with it’s constant change of rhythm and expression alternating between gospel and blues has the most complex form. Blues has always been a part of a black church service, said Mingus. “Eat That Chicken” (a homage to Fats Waller and his favourite food) even plays around with an old-time, Dixie feeling. Humour is never far away. Even in the atomic bomb song (this too, a sort of churchy blues) one hears the words: -Don’t let ’em drop it! Stop it! Be-bop it!This Speakers Corner reissue LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the master tapes through to the cutting head. More information under http://www. Pure-analogue. #com. All royalties and mechanical rights have been paid. Recording: November 1961 at Atlantic Studios, New York City, by Tom Dowd and Phil IehleProduction: Nesuhi ErtegunRelease date: 2/9/2022Original label: Atlantic

Tracks:
1.1 Side A
1.2 Hog Callin’ Blues
1.3 Devil Woman
1.4 Wham Bam, Thank You Ma’am
1.5 Side B
1.6 Ecclusiastics
1.7 Oh Lord Don’t Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me
1.8 Eat That Chicken
1.9 Passions of a Man