Charles Mingus - Self-Portrait in Three Colors

[Skyblueginger]

Haunting, dark, luxurious, melodic mastery.

[psjonesi55]

Love this chart!!

[postatility]

Of all the adaptations over the years of "All The Things You Are",this might be the most moving.

[LSDpeasantry]

@postatility what the fuck are you smokin??

[postatility]

@LSDpeasantry You should be so lucky!

[LSDpeasantry]

@postatility perhaps i would be so lucky, but is it based on the changes of All the things you are?? I don't think it is...

[postatility]

@LSDpeasantry You're 1/2 right.Only the 1st part of the tune is based on "All the Things...".My bad. One of Mingus' other tunes,"All The Things You Could Be If Sigmund Freud's Wife Were Your Mother" is entirely based on those changes.Seriously.

[bmc31190]

@postatility i dont think even the beginning of this song is based on all the things you are. maybe it uses the cycle of 4ths but just because all the things you are uses the same cycle doesnt mean theyre related. the compositional concept here that seems most important to me is the layering and orchestration

[debash1234]

typical elegant Mingus style... pure and genius!

[missladybug007]

Simply amazing.

[IanSinty]

Simply.....masterful.

[beefshotgun]

you don't have to "understand" jazz. you just have to listen. wholly listen. quiet room, no distractions, close your eyes, listen and feel.

[NorthWriter]

@beefshotgun I've also found that road trips are a great way to soak in some jazz. Get on a long stretch of highway, set the cruise control, and just tune in.

[postatility]

@beefshotgun Over the years,I have listened to Jazz while at work(Post Office),doing housework,walking the dog,mowing the lawn,driving,making love,painting,and many other activities.I am happy to report that it works for ALL of them!

[uropeanson]

Every top post on Youtube: "this song is the greatest piece of music ever written. Why do today's musicians suck so hard?"

[DaveVelo1]

I see you're a young man and your point is well taken. In my view, what eventually caused jazz' demise is many faceted. Too Intellectual? Yes. Closed and personal? Yes. Intimate? Yes. Once, a visual performing artist (dancer) asked me: "Why do jazz musicians close there eyes when they play. They should try to communicate more with the audience!" Nowadays, it's all about visual rather aural. The 'aud'ience has forgotten how to listen... Nuff said.

[videovedo36]

@DaveVelo1 sorry for that 'artist' but his/her comment was indeed very very silly (at least). I'm not a jazz expert but to me is so undeniable that jazz is really a place of the soul, and closing the eyes is to be connected with one's intimacy and only if you really are giving THAT out to people, instead of just showing them, you are able to reach them. Each time I see a jazz musician play I feel paralized by the suspension and grace and freedom and pregnancy of the moment...

[curtisb3000]

Mingus Dynasty.....

[mrtvsmith]

what just happened.....?

[ierogamos]

mingus,

the greatest musician of all time!

[Aiden057]

This is a Jazz Masterpiece and Mingus was one of the great composers of the 20th Century. He was a difficult person, but he was also so horridly treated in so many ways; and yet he still found a place in himself which allowed for some of the greatest music of the century. I saw him once, it was the one of the best musical performances I've ever seen.

[TroubleinZION]

Man I need to get this album it's got so many great tunes on it.

[InsideYoFeebleBrain]

Dude, fuck life. MINGEY IS A BALLA!

[Mutant692]

this is so damn good

[DaveVelo1]

This is a masterpiece, a tribute to the ecstasy, beauty and magnificence of "real" jazz. It's a pity many of our young, so called "jazz" musicians don't understand the concepts that bring goosebumps when one listens to this music.

[ansyf125]

I wish I was born 50 years ago for this reason.

...as well as the economy...

[soredemo22142]

Lol that was really funny i cudnt help but laugh in my seat after reading the part about the economy. yea but i wudnt want to have to put up with racism so that maybe my only downy.

[InsideYoFeebleBrain]

...As well as the ability to do your own grandma...

[flanissimo]

@DaveVelo1 this piece is unique in jazz -- in that it has no improvisation. Mingus was a champion of bebop and many other genres, but this is a very un-bebop composition. Where does this fall in the historical movements of jazz -- not that it REALLY matters -- "third stream", perhaps? But, yes, goosebumps for sure. I heard the Mingus Dynasty band do it on the New Haven Green. The masses were hushed. Goosebumps for sure.

[DaveVelo1]

@flanissimo-- I suppose you could define Coltrane, Monk and Davis' music much the same way. They started out as boppers later to develop their own unique musical styles.

[pepperonik]

@flanissimo Whha... naa fa...wauhhh! Pssh.

[hanshotfirst1138]

@DaveVelo1 So few people listen to jazz nowadays, leastways that I know.

[onlyjoetee]

@DaveVelo1 thats the problem with jazz,you have to "understand" it,ie its intellectual..music should either hit you or not,penetrate or ricochet..thats all but with jazz you have to "understand" it..

[uriangatobataclan]

@DaveVelo1 I'm 21 and I just have the hots for Mingus, he's such a BREATH TAKER...

[TonyMacina]

A fantastic song, one of the best compositions in jazz.

[101underdog101]

some amazing harmonized lines

[pepperonik]

@101underdog101 Muhhhh!

[shishardo]

so fucking a great plasure listen the master charles Q.E.P.D .

[tomdeforbach]

Pure Jazz

[timek21v]

Beautiful.

[Tastenflieger]

That's real music!

[adel546]

beauty, that's all, beauty.