Nostalgia in Times Square

Charles Mingus · 1959 · Shadows (1959), musique de Mingus pour le film de John Cassavetes

Context

Charles Mingus wrote music for John Cassavetes's Shadows, most of which was cut in editing. He recorded "Nostalgia in Times Square" on January 16, 1959, with John Handy and Booker Ervin, and released it the same year on Jazz Portraits.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Jazz in film and on screen, Hard bop. Among the origins and influences of Jazz in film and on screen: Cool (Birth of the Cool), Third stream, Modern big bands.

By the same artist

• Fables of Faubus (1959)
• Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (1959)
• Better Git It in Your Soul (1959)
• Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting (1959)
• Boogie Stop Shuffle (1959)
• Self-Portrait in Three Colors (1959)

Sources

• EN: Jazz Portraits: Mingus in Wonderland

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