Me Myself an Eye

by Charles Mingus

Me Myself an Eye cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: February 1979
  • Label: Atlantic
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 57:12
  • Community rating: 3.79/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded as the legendary bassist was battling ALS and physically unable to play his instrument, he supervised a massive thirty-piece ensemble to execute his final grand compositions. The sessions yield sprawling, aggressively dense big band arrangements that touch upon free jazz chaos and complex, swinging post-bop. The album stands as a breathtakingly powerful, defiant final artistic statement from one of jazz's greatest composers.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, experimental, orchestral, improvisation, suite, vocal

Tracklist

  1. Carolyn Kiki Mingus (7:46)
  2. Three Worlds of Drums (30:17)
  3. Devil Woman - 1979 recorded version (9:22)
  4. Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting - 1979 Recorded Version (9:47)

Credits

  • Akira Ohmori - alto saxophone
  • Lee Konitz - alto saxophone
  • Malta - alto saxophone
  • Ken Hitchcock - alto saxophone, soprano saxophone
  • Craig Purpura - baritone saxophone
  • Pepper Adams - baritone saxophone
  • Ronnie Cuber - baritone saxophone
  • Eddie Gomez - bass

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