Charles Mingus - Changes One (1975 Japanese Atlantic Stereo LP)

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Charles Mingus - Changes One | Vinyl LP - 1975 Japanese Atlantic (P-10086A, Warner-Pioneer Corporation)

This album was recorded four years before Charles Mingus died on January 5, 1979.

"Remember Rockefeller at Attica" opens the record at six minutes, the title a direct address to the governor who had ordered the retaking of Attica Correctional Facility in September 1971, resulting in the deaths of 29 inmates and 10 hostages. Mingus's approach is to name the political fact in the title and let the music carry the intensity. "Sue's Changes" runs seventeen minutes across chord sequences Mingus had been developing for years, Adams and Walrath trading and building over Pullen's clusters and Richmond's drumming. The dynamics through the piece shift several times without announcing the changes.

"Devil Blues" is the album's strangest piece. Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown provided the lyrics, Adams wrote the melody and sings and Mingus wrote the horn lines that carry the response. Adams's voice is used with the same directness as his saxophone. "Duke Ellington's Sound of Love" was written after Ellington died in April 1974. It is not an elegy in any conventional sense, closer to a tribute to Ellington's compositional method than to the man himself, and it is the most harmonically complex piece on the record.

This is the 1975 Japanese Atlantic pressing (P-10086A), manufactured by Warner-Pioneer Corporation.