Self-Portrait in Three Colors

Charles Mingus · 1959 · Écrit pour le film Shadows de Cassavetes

Context

Piece referencing Jelly Roll Morton, recorded on May 5, 1959. During Horace Parlan's piano solo, it quotes Sonny Rollins's "Sonnymoon for Two."

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

• Fables of Faubus (1959)
• Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (1959)
• Better Git It in Your Soul (1959)
• Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting (1959)
• Nostalgia in Times Square (1959)
• Boogie Stop Shuffle (1959)

Sources

• EN: Mingus Ah Um

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