Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um (SACD, Mobile Fidelity)

The Critics are here, and now Ah Um oder doch eher The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady das definitive Mingus-Album ist. It is safe to say that since the year 1959 a complete set of bassist Mingus as composers and leaders has been presented. The individual stubs are very unobtrusive and very similar. With Better Get It in Your Soul, a Gospel-inspired Stück as Opener, Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, a Lashingman Nachruf and a short-sleeved shirt by Lester Young, and Fables of Faubus, a musical parody of Governor’s Arkansas to the Classics of Jazz.