A little Mingus tonight. Charles Mingus' birthday was a few weeks ago, and I wasn't able to get around to a proper celebration of it. But he's a good one. Take it from his own words:
"I write or play me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever. Music is, or was, a language of the emotions. If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music... My music is alive and it's about the living and the dead, about good and evil. It's angry, yet it's real because it knows it's angry."
from the liner notes to The Clown, Atlantic, 1961
Composer's name is listed where notable (i.e. Classical Performance, Jazz Performance).
| Composer | Performer | Title | Genre | Label | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Led Zeppelin | Dazed and Confuzed | Rock, Classic/Metal | Atlantic, 2003 | Recorded on June 25th and 27th, 1972, released as part of "How the West Was Won" in 1973 | |
| What Is And What Should Never Be | |||||
| Dancing Days | |||||
| Charles Mingus | Haitian Fight Song | Jazz | Atlantic, 1957 | Haitian Fight Song was recorded in early 1957, but was not released until 1961 as part of "The Clown" | |
| E's Flat Ah's Flat Too | |||||
| The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers | Columbia/Sony, 1972 | ||||
| Rush | Jacob's Ladder | Rock, Classic/Progressive | Anthem/Mercury, 1979 | ||
| Madrigal | Anthem/Mercury, 1977 | ||||
| Lessons | Anthem/Mercury, 1976 | ||||
| Pantera | Drag the Waters | Metal | EastWest/Elektra/Rhino, 1996 | ||
| I'm Broken | EastWest/Elektra/Rhino, 1994 | ||||
| Walk | EastWest/Elektra/Rhino, 1992 | ||||
| ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead | Mistakes and Regrets | Modern Rock/Emo(?) | Merge, 1999 | ||
| Handsome | Lead Bellied | Rock, Hardcore/Emo | Epic, 1995 | ||
| Stormtroopers of Death | The Crackhead Song | Metal/Hardcore | Nuclear Blast America | ||
| Helmet | Speak and Spell | Metal/Hardcore | Interscope, 2004 | ||
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