When it was first released in 1962, five years after it was recorded, Charles Mingus declared this musical account of a bacchanalian trip to the notorious border town the best record he ever made. That may be exaggeration, but it's certainly one of Mingus's best, a suite of pieces that gives form to the range of both his oversized emotions and his varied compositional techniques. The sextet, which sounds like a far larger group, includes several musicians who would become perennial Mingus associates--drummer Dannie Richmond and trombonist Jimmy Knepper--as well as the gifted trumpeter Clarence Shaw, an obscure musician with a distinctive lyricism. In its tumult, passionate breadth, and programmatic content, Tijuana Moods looks ahead to Mingus's later masterpiece, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady. --Stuart Broomer
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Jazz Music:
- One Day in October
- Oranj Album
- Out Of Time
- Play Zone
- Resort & Music: Caribbean Wind [Import]
- Satin Sheets
- Sax Pax for a Sax
- Someday My Prince Will Come [SACD] [Import]
- Sound Windows V: Pinnacles
- Sounds from the Elegant World [Import]
Jazz Music
Tuckerized [Original recording remastered]
Paderewski: Pianist & Composer
Basin Street Blues [Original recording remastered] [Import]
Sisters of the Red Death [Explicit Lyrics]