Mingus - Oh Yeah (1976 Japanese Atlantic LP) SIGNED Dannie Richmond

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Mingus - Oh Yeah | Vinyl LP - 1976 Japanese Atlantic Stereo Reissue (P-4544A, Jazz Forever 1500, Warner-Pioneer Corporation) SIGNED BY DANNIE RICHMOND

• This copy is signed on the front cover by Dannie Richmond, Mingus's drummer and one of the most recorded sidemen in jazz history; Richmond died on March 15, 1988
• Recorded in a single session on November 6, 1961 at Atlantic Studios, New York; produced by Nesuhi Ertegun; Mingus plays piano throughout and does not play bass, hiring Doug Watkins instead; he sings on three tracks; all seven compositions are Mingus originals; Roland Kirk spent only three months with the Mingus band and this is the only studio document of that period
• 1976 Japanese Atlantic stereo reissue (P-4544A), Jazz Forever 1500 series; manufactured by Warner-Pioneer Corporation; includes insert

Roland Kirk only played with Mingus for three months. This album is what those three months produced. Recorded in a single afternoon on November 6, 1961, at Atlantic Studios, it is the wildest entry in Mingus's Atlantic catalogue and by some distance the most difficult to categorise. Mingus had decided not to play bass, hiring Doug Watkins to hold that role while he accompanied the band on piano and sang on several tracks. His singing does not aim for technical accomplishment. It aims for effect.

The album opens with "Hog Callin' Blues," Kirk and Booker Ervin trading and building over the rhythm section while Mingus shouts encouragement from behind the piano. "Devil Woman" slows to a grinding blues with Mingus delivering stream-of-consciousness couplets over his own accompaniment. "Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am" is angular and Monk-influenced, hard bop treated with deliberate wrongness. Side B opens with "Ecclusiastics" 9the misspelling is Mingus's own), a gospel-jazz piece in which he testifies over the ensemble, the band responding like a congregation. "Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me" is a church blues with Kirk playing with unusual restraint. "Eat That Chicken" is comic and stride-inflected, nodding at Fats Waller. "Passions of a Man" closes the record with something closer to musique concrète. Kirk's sirens and whistles, vocalising, found sounds, barely any jazz framework at all.

Kirk was blind and twenty-one years old at the time of the session. He played tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch, flute and siren simultaneously or in rapid succession. 

This copy is signed on the front cover by Dannie Richmond, who played drums on the session. Richmond worked alongside Mingus from 1956 until Mingus's death in 1979.