Album: Oh Yeah by Charles Mingus (1962)
Genre: Jazz | Mood: Excitable
Format: Album

Description: Oh Yeah is a studio album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus, released in April 1962 on Atlantic Records. It was recorded in 1961, and features the leader (mainly known as a bassist and composer) singing on three of the cuts and playing piano throughout.

Artist Background: Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 - January 5, 1979) was a highly influential American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader. Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third Stream, free jazz, and classical music. Yet Mingus avoided categorization, forging his own brand of music that fused tradition with unique and unexplored realms of jazz. He once cited Duke Ellington and church... Part of the USA music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Related Artists: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Eric Dolphy

Music Scene: Part of the USA music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Jazz, Excitable, 1960s, Album


Oh Yeah is a studio album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus, released in April 1962 on Atlantic Records. It was recorded in 1961, and features the leader (mainly known as a bassist and composer) singing on three of the cuts and playing piano throughout.

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