Jazz Composers Workshop

Album by Charles Mingus

Jazz Composers Workshop is a studio album by American jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus, released in 1956. The album blends hard bop and modern jazz with arrangements emphasising collective improvisation, contrapuntal writing and restless rhythmic drive, documenting Mingus's mid-1950s workshop approach and its role in the development of his later large-scale compositions.

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  1. 1.
    Purple Heart
    5:33
  2. 2.
    Gregorian Chant
    2:48
  3. 3.
    Eulogy For Rudy Williams
    6:19
  4. 4.
    Tea For Two
    6:16
  5. 5.
    Smog L.A.
    3:10
  6. 6.
    Level Seven
    4:14
  7. 7.
    Transeason
    4:19
  8. 8.
    Rose Geranium
    4:09
  9. 9.
    Getting Together
    4:37

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