JakeStarstorm me too! Lol

It’s all in the shortnin

Keeps me happy

@@reimers43 Comments like this keep reminding me to revisit it, thank you. 7 years now. Still regular.

Loool...once a year??? You should be officially reprimanded! This is not some old fella prostate who needs to be checked just once in a year! I cannot go more than a month without reassuring myself that everything is in order, it has not been removed and nobody has written unappreciated and inappropriate comments.

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Lol

What about Masekela?

I do have to say the king of shortinin bread is Brian Wilson, that 7 minute long version is perfect.

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That part starts at 19:25.

I have faith a fellow KZfaqr will find it

I need the full video!!!! Lol

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qMyXoa2itc3dZWQ.html around 24:30

Gather around children 23 minute mark on a video titled Charles Mingus live at the Montreux jazz festival, Switserland 1977 audio only

@@lawrence-yx1ew no fuckin way

some things are best left unknown lol! ever read Lovecraft?

⁠@@briscoelang2586ia! ia! Mingus fhtagn!

He wasn’t joking, he was just a very aggressive person.

@@vstauffenberg5966 Well I find it witty and it makes me laugh. It flips the mainstream image of the simple, accepting-anything image of black americans and presents a brash bold and wise image. Bravo!

@@1feloniouspunk he talked so much shit on Duke Ellington’s bandstand that Jackie McClean pulled a knife on him and Charles was fired. He was funny yes, but mostly because he was such a lunatic XD

@@vstauffenberg5966 I respect that you know some stuff about the jazz greats, but I still can't help but love him. I think I would have been able to get along with him. He also had a tender, sophisticated side.

@@1feloniouspunk of course I love him too! Certainly sophisticated, what a genius!

Yo that would amazing

Meat Beat Manifesto sampled the "Turn that microphone on!" back and forth to let their engineer know they were going to do a track with vocals when I saw them live in about 2005-ish

@@Jack_Rivet Yes, you are right Meat Beat sampled Mingus. One of his bassline is in Meat Beat's video mashup "Drum Test" which is here on KZfaq. I'm pretty sure I saw one of other tracks/videos sample Turn that fucking mic on" but I can't remember exactly which track/video. Jack Dangers' beats are the best of the best; definitely I rate him top 5 beatmakers of all time.

Best comment to my eyes.

It's not the beginning, it's an aside in the middle of a session.He sounds prickly because he's insisting on doing his aside in the middle of a tune

Clifton Hicks says he learned this song from the Library of Congress recording of Lewis "Big Sweet" Hairston on the album, Black Banjo Songsters of North Carolina and Virginia.

Here's this classic version -- he sings "mommy" -- but mid-20th-century white singers made it "mammy," ugh. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ibR3ZLaUqqe8Z58.html

Given how much his illness was progressing by then, it's not really that surprising.

I'm not sure Mingus ever "enjoyed" himself per se. He was fanatically driven by his art.

The bass solo in Cumbia and jazz fusion is so underrated! Despite suffering from the earliest symptoms of his ALS, Mingus still comes in with that absolutely ferocious opening phrase before launching into one of the most recognisable solos of his career. 12 years after your comment was posted and that solo still goes hard! 46 years after the solo was recorded and it still goes hard!!!

very nice comnent :) i like it . mom?

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Cumbia & Jazz Fusion, around minute 18

I've never heard a story of Wagner getting physically violent with people like Mingus does though. Wagner was psychologically and socially dangerous perhaps (stealing his friend's wife for one) and was Machiavellian, but from what I've read, he became more of a resigned pessimist in the end rather than an angry firebrand lashing out at the world. Mingus is a trip. He must have been a genius for people to continue to work with him. I think his music is good and interesting, thought provoking art, but not that good to suffer physical violence to be a part of it.

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Late reply but it’s a parody of “Shortnin’ Bread”, an old plantation song and while there are tons of variations on the lyrics, they’re usually talking about how slaves really liked shortening bread. The original lyrics that Mingus wrote in “Cumbia and Jazz Fusion” (the song in the video) go like: “who said mama’s little baby likes shortening bread who said mama’s little baby likes shortening shortening bread that’s some lie some white man went and said mama’s little baby don’t like no shortening bread mama’s little baby likes truffles mama’s little baby likes caviar mama’s little baby likes all the fine things in life all the things that a real good person should have