Oh Yeah

by Charles Mingus

Type: Album
Released: 1962
Label: Atlantic
Country: United States
Length: 29:14
Community rating: 4.38/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Dannie Richmond, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Booker Ervin, Jimmy Knepper, Doug Watkins

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A wonderfully raw and raucous album that finds bandleader Charles Mingus setting aside his bass to play piano and holler the blues. The session is a powerful expression of Mingus's deep roots in gospel, blues, and collective improvisation.

Genres

Descriptors: bluesy, piano, raucous, soulful, vocal

Tracklist

Credits

Charles Mingus - primary artist, piano, vocals
Doug Watkins - bass
Loring Eutemey - cover
Dannie Richmond - drums
Phil Iehle - engineer
Tom Dowd - engineer
Roland Kirk - flute, siren, tenor saxophone, wind [manzello, strich], tenor saxophone, soloist, tenor saxophone, soloist [1st]
Nesuhi Ertegun - producer, supervised by
Booker Ervin - tenor saxophone, tenor saxophone, soloist [2nd]
Jimmy Knepper - trombone