Money Jungle

Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus & Max Roach · 1962 · released in February 1963

Context

Title track of the trio meeting recorded on September 17, 1962 in New York, without rehearsal, on compositions brought by Ellington, and released by United Artists Jazz in February 1963. The session was tense: Mingus left the studio midway before Ellington brought him back, each later giving a different account of the incident. The album is now regarded as a masterpiece.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Hard bop. Among the origins and influences of Hard bop: Blues, spirituals, work songs, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Take the Coltrane (1963)
• Paris Blues (1961)
• In a Sentimental Mood (1963)
• Sacred Concert (sélection) (1965)
• Sunset and the Mocking Bird (1959)
• Main Title / Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Sources

• EN: Money Jungle

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