Charles Mingus - Oh Yeah (Remastered) (1962/2024)

Mastered directly from the original analog tape to Direct-Stream-Digital. Charles Mingus' 1962 Studio Album Oh Yeah Reissued as Part of the Atlantic Records 75th Anniversary Series on Hybrid Stereo SACD. After several sessions with Columbia and Candid, Charles Mingus briefly returned to Atlantic and cut the freewheeling Oh Yeah, which AllMusic says has to rank as the wildest of all his classic albums. Mingus displays all of his vigorous jazz feeling on this album; he plays no bass whatsoever, hiring Doug Watkins to fill in while he accompanies the group on piano and contributes bluesy vocals to several tracks (while shouting encouragement on nearly all of them).

One of the really fine things about Mingus is that he always seems to keep an earthy touch no matter how wild the harmonies get, and that genius comes across with power here. Some of the colorful titles are "Devil Woman," "Eat That Chicken," and "Hog Callin' Blues."

Mingus' vocal selections radiate the same dementia, whether it's the stream-of-consciousness blues couplets on "Devil Woman," the dark-humored modern-day spiritual "Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me," or the dadaist stride piano bounce of "Eat That Chicken," a nod to Fats Waller's comic novelties.

Tracklist
01. Charles Mingus - Hog Callin' Blues (7:28)
02. Charles Mingus - Devil Woman (9:43)
03. Charles Mingus - Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am (4:46)
04. Charles Mingus - Ecclusiastics (6:59)
05. Charles Mingus - Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me (5:44)
06. Charles Mingus - Eat That Chicken (4:40)
07. Charles Mingus - Passions of a Man (4:57)