- rock, jazz
- 37 min
- 11 tracks
- Asylum Records
Mingus is the tenth studio album by Canadian musician Joni Mitchell. It was released on June 13, 1979, and was her last studio album for Asylum Records. The album is a collaboration between Mitchell and jazz musician Charles Mingus. It was recorded in the months before and after Mingus' death in January 1979 and is wholly dedicated to him.
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Spare, character-led, grave and open-ended.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
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- AllMusic3.5/5 ★
- Christgau's Record GuideC+
- The Encyclopedia of Popular Music4/5 ★
- Pitchfork5.5/10
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide3/5 ★
- DownBeat5/5 ★
- Jazz Forum4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Happy Birthday 1975 (rap)0:58
- 2God Must Be a Boogie Man4:36
- 3Funeral (rap)1:07
- 4A Chair in the Sky6:43
- 5The Wolf That Lives in Lindsey6:33
- 6I’s a Muggin’ (rap)0:07
- 7Sweet Sucker Dance8:05
- 8Coin in the Pocket (rap)0:12
- 9The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines3:22
- 10Lucky (rap)0:04
- 11Goodbye Pork Pie Hat5:37
11 tracks, 37 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Joni Mitchell
- Label
- Asylum Records
- Type
- Album
- Format
- HDCD
- Country
- CA
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