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Limited Edition digipak with original cover and liner notes.
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With a name such as Pithecanthropus Erectus no-one at Atlantic must have expected this one to be top of the jazz-radio request pile, but at least Mingus made jazz hipsters expand their vocabulary past "cool" and "man". That aside, this 1957 album is not just one of Mingus's best, but one of the great jazz classics. In Jackie McLean and JR Monterose it has a front line of unusual flexibility, sensitivity and lyricism, while Mal Waldron and Willie Jones make an unusually fine connection with Mingus's combustible bass playing. Waldron it is who constantly provides the musical signposts in a collection of three unusually beautiful and imaginative Mingus compositions and one Mingus rearrangement of a Gershwin standard. The title track is famous for its vocalised sounds from the reeds and Mingus's driving contributions, but the short "Profile of Jackie" is one of Mingus's most memorable melodies, while the long "Love Chant", apart from being surpassingly beautiful, looks towards the modalism that would soon engulf modern jazz via Miles and Trane. --Keith Shadwick