Charles Mingus - The Complete Candid Recordings

Candid era uma pequena gravadora, onde Charles Mingus gravou muitas preciosidades, como por exemplo a versão integral, com letra e tudo da música "Faubus Fables", música que critica explicitamente vários políticos e magnatas racistas da época. A faixa está no disco "Ah Um" (1959), gravado pela Columbia Records, porém não pôde ser gravada com a letra, devido à sua irreverência e ousadia. Esses três cds tratam-se de um tesouro, repleto de solos inusitados e belos temas.


Original Faubus Fables

"Oh, Lord, don't let 'em shoot us!
Oh, Lord, don't let 'em stab us!
Oh, Lord, don't let 'em tar and feather us!
Oh, Lord, no more swastikas!
Oh, Lord, no more Ku Klux Klan!

Name me someone who's ridiculous, Dannie.
Governor Faubus!
Why is he so sick and ridiculous?
He won't permit integrated schools.

Then he's a fool! Boo! Nazi Fascist supremists!
Boo! Ku Klux Klan (with your Jim Crow plan)

Name me a handful that's ridiculous, Dannie Richmond.
Faubus, Rockefeller, Eisenhower
Why are they so sick and ridiculous?
Two, four, six, eight:
They brainwash and teach you hate.
H-E-L-L-O, Hello."

(Orval E. Faubus foi governador do Arkansas em 1957. Era um segregacionista. Mandou a Guarda Nacional entrar em ação para previnir que crianças negras pudessem frequentar o colégio em Little Rock.)

• Disc 1: The Quartet
  1. Folk Forms No. 1 (13:01)
  2. Original Faubus Fables (aka Faubus Of Fables) (9:03)
  3. What Love? (15:19)
  4. All The Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother (8:33)
  5. Stormy Weather (13:23) (Arlen)
  6. Melody From The Drums (9:21) (Richmond)

• Disc 2: The Ensemble
  1. Reincarnation Of A Lovebird No. 1 (9:17)
  2. Vasserlean (aka Weird Nightmare) (6:36)
  3. MDM (19:07)
  4. Bugs (8:25)
  5. Reincarnation Of A Lovebird (6:55)
  6. Lock 'Em Up (6:41)

• Disc 3: The Eldridge Session
  1. Mysterious Blues (8:35)
  2. Body And Soul (13:45) (Green)
  3. Body And Soul (alternate) (10:45)
  4. R & R (11:48) (Eldridge/Brown)
  5. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (3:48) (Moll/Koehler/Barris)
  6. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (alternate) (3:50)
  7. Me And You (9:52) (Eldridge/Mingus/Flanagan/Jones)

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