Album: Changes Two by Charles Mingus (1975)
Genre: Jazz | Mood: Excitable
Record Label: Rhino Atlantic
Format: Album

Description: Changes Two is an album by Charles Mingus. It was recorded on 27, 28, and 30 December 1974 at Atlantic Studios in New York City—the same sessions which resulted in Mingus' album Changes One. Accordingly, Atlantic Records initially released the record. In 1993, it was issued on CD by Rhino Records.

This brief version of "Duke Ellington's Sound of Love" features vocals by Jackie Paris.

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, 1970s, Album, Rhino Atlantic


Changes Two is an album by Charles Mingus. It was recorded on 27, 28, and 30 December 1974 at Atlantic Studios in New York City—the same sessions which resulted in Mingus' album Changes One. Accordingly, Atlantic Records initially released the record. In 1993, it was issued on CD by Rhino Records.

This brief version of "Duke Ellington's Sound of Love" features vocals by Jackie Paris.

Changes Two

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