Coleman Hughes: recommendation

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…Where should a podcast listener start if they don’t know Mingus? I think you should start with Mingus Ah Um because it’s the album that would most broadly appeal to someone who didn’t know any Mingus. I would also very much recommend watching his interviews, as his personality is part of the experience of listening to him. Then my favorite Mingus is probably — Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is, I think, a masterpiece. The lesser-known Mingus piece that is a beauty and was part of his several-hour-long composition called Epitaph, which I think he never finished, but it’s a song called “Pinky Don’t Come Back from the Moon Looking for Love, Man.” It’s a beautiful, 10-minute or so, just gorgeous piece. He had a penchant for these — giving really long names and funny names. So he has another one, for instance, called — it’s a contrafact of the song “All the Things You Are.” Contrafact meaning same chords, different melody. He called it “All the Things You Could Be [by Now] If Sigmund Freud’s Wife Was Your Mother.” He had these very funny titles, and I’m a lifelong Mingus fan and blessed to play in the band. I want to be charmed by Puerto Rican music. Where should I start?…

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