Charles Mingus - Mingus Plays Piano [HDTracks 96-24] [FLAC]

Charles Mingus - Mingus Plays Piano

Recorded: July 30, 1963
Genre: Jazz
Label: Impulse Records (Released 1963/Reissued 1997)
HDTracks Audiophile 96kHz/24bit (Released 1997)

Track Listing:

01 Myself When I Am Real 07:35
02 I Can't Get Started 03:40
03 Body And Soul 04:31
04 Roland Kirk's Message 02:40
05 Memories Of You 04:35
06 She's Just Miss Popular Hybrid 03:08
07 Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress, Then Silk Blues 04:13
08 Meditations For Moses 03:38
09 Old Portrait 03:45
10 I'm Getting Sentimental Over You 03:43

Note: Track 11 - Compositional Theme Story: Medleys, Anthems & Folklore (08:35) was included in the original 1963 release and all subsequent releases EXCEPT for this HDTracks release.

AllMusic Review by Scott Yanow:
Bassist Charles Mingus would never qualify as a virtuoso on the piano but his technique was reasonably impressive and his imagination quite brilliant. This unique solo piano CD (which was reissued in 1997) has a few standards ("Body and Soul," "Memories of You" and "I'm Getting Sentimental over You") along with some freely improvised originals, most of which are quite fascinating to hear, as if one were listening to Mingus think aloud.