While no new Charles Mingus album is in sight, the artist has been road testing new songs during 1977 tour in Europe. Lionel Hampton Presents Charles Mingus isn’t so much a record, as a great effort at dragging you into another world. Charles Mingus’s debut, ‘Lionel Hampton Presents Charles Mingus’, does not fit easily into one genre. Lionel Hampton Presents Charles Mingus is preety good and all the songs have a good meaning behind them.
It is succeeded by an outstanding track, however: Peggy’s Blue Skylight, which shows, blatantly, how much Charles Mingus has evolved as a singer. Caroline Keikki Mingus is the song that really did it for me. Slop is the albums biggest surprise. Just For Laughs Pt.2 is sonically very melodic with nice haunting verses. A fantastic track full of wonder. Music and lyrics of Duke Ellington’s The Sound Of Love creates, for me, fertile ground for daydreaming. Farewell, Farewell is so unique, as each one of the songs is. So Long Eric is beautiful, yet underrated track. It Might As Well Be Spring on Lionel Hampton Presents Charles Mingus is solid and easy to listen to.
Lionel Hampton Presents Charles Mingus CD
| Song Name | Time | ||
| Just For Laughs Pt.1.mp3 | 4:31 |  |
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| Peggy’s Blue Skylight.mp3 | 5:21 | |
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| Caroline Keikki Mingus.mp3 | 6:20 | |
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| Slop.mp3 | 5:09 | |
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| Just For Laughs Pt.2.mp3 | 2:39 | |
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| Fables Of Faubus.mp3 | 6:15 | |
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| Duke Ellington’s The Sound Of Love.mp3 | 5:59 | |
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| Farewell, Farewell.mp3 | 6:02 | |
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| So Long Eric.mp3 | 4:36 | |
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| It Might As Well Be Spring.mp3 | 5:32 | |
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