Mingus-Complete Debut Recordings

[dave9199]

Has anyone else gotten this? I've recently gotten into Mingus & liked what I've heard, but I really didn't care for anything on this 12 cd box. I didn't realize it was mostly him as a session player. I've read his musical personality was still forming during 1951-55. I've got the Bethlehem, Atlantic & Columbia boxes and liked them all. If you have this, how do you feel about it?

[JohnS]

I have it. It's not all great, some of it's weird, but it is always interesting. Typically Mingus.

[jazzbo]

I have this. I love a lot of the sessions on this box. But then I'm into about twenty some years of listening to Mingus, over the last fifteen or so quite heavily, and I have learned to like a lot more of his work than I did initially!

[Guest Mnytime]

If you are into Mingus, you're going to want this eventually. It might not be the first thing to pick up but it's Mingus and a Whole Lotta Mingus.

[mikeweil]

If you are into early Mingus - as documented by the excellent Uptown CD - this is the perfect companion. It is of course more about Mingus the producer and sideman, but everything bears his stamp. He was just as great a bass player as he was as composer and bandleader. And there's a lot of his working band of the mid-1950's in this set. I find it as indispensable as the Uptown CD and the Atlantic and Columbia dates. He recorded a lot - and arguably the more important dates - for other labels during the existence of Debut, maybe also to support his label. The very good booklet tells a lot about this. You will want to have it, sooner or later .....