East Coasting

Album by Charles Mingus

East Coasting is an album by American jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus, released in 1957. The album features hard bop and post-bop arrangements with prominent ensemble interplay, blues-influenced motifs and taut horn voicings, and represents a late-1950s phase in Mingus's career where he was consolidating his compositional approach between small-group intensity and larger-scale ambition.
First released: 1957

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Memories of You
    4:29
  2. 2.
    East Coasting
    5:13
  3. 3.
    West Coast Ghost
    10:33
  4. 4.
    Celia
    7:52
  5. 5.
    Conversation
    5:32
  6. 6.
    Fifty First Street Blues
    5:51
  7. 7.
    Scenes in the City
    11:21
  8. 8.
    Duke's Choice
    6:27
  9. 9.
    New York Sketch Book
    8:27

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