THIS ISSUE: An 8-LP set celebrates late Mingus.
Charles Mingus’s Changes: The Complete 1970s Atlantic Studio Recordings
he standup bass genius and jazz force of nature Charles Mingus made his first album for Atlantic Records, , in 1956. Several of his most memorable musical masterpieces, including (1957), (1960), and (1962), followed as he intermittently returned to the label throughout the 1960s and early ’70s. Beginning in 1974 with , the cigarillochomping, famously gruff Mingus recorded most of his final albums for the label as he progressed from composer/player to wheelchair-bound writer and musical director. comprise this welcome 8-LP (or 7-CD) box-set addition to the Mingus oeuvre.
