Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus & Max Roach - Money Jungle [Classic Records 200g (Quiex SV-P)] 24/96 & 16/44.1

Posted By : aksman | Date : 04 Sep 2010 08:20:45 | Comments : 24 |

Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus & Max Roach - Money Jungle
Classic Records 200g (Quiex SV-P) / United Artists Records UAJ 15017
Mastered by Bernie Grundman @ Grundman Mastering, Hollywood
Vinyl rip in 24-bit/192kHz (converted to 24/96 & 16/44.1) | FLAC | m3u, cue & Tech Log
Artwork | 620 / 180 mb incl. recovery | Rapidshare & FileFactory | Jazz | 1963

Allmusic.com rating: 4.5 / 5

Money Jungle is a jazz album by Duke Ellington with Charles Mingus and Max Roach recorded on September 17, 1962 and released in February 1963 by United Artists Jazz.

The almost all-Ellington repertoire on this album is not only reworks of older compositions, as Ellington wrote the bulk of the material specifically for the LP.

All songs composed by Duke Ellington solely (except where otherwise stated).

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Review by Ken Dryden

Duke Ellington surprised the jazz world in 1962 with his historic trio session featuring Charles Mingus and Max Roach. Not in a mood to simply rework older compositions, the bulk of the LP focused on music he wrote specifically for the session. "Money Jungle" is a thunderous opener, a blues that might be classified somewhere between post-bop and avant-garde. The gem of the date is the fragile, somewhat haunting ballad "Fleurette Africaine," where Mingus' floating bassline and Roach's understated drumming add to the mystique of an Ellington work that has slowly been gathering steam among jazz musicians as a piece worth exploring more often. "Very Special" is a jaunty upbeat blues, while the angular, descending line of "Wig Wise" also proves to be quite catchy. Ellington also revisits "Warm Valley" (a lovely ballad indelibly associated with Johnny Hodges) and an almost meditative "Solitude." Thunderous percussion and wild basslines complement a wilder-than-usual approach to "Caravan." Every jazz fan should own a copy of this sensational recording session.

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Track listing

Side one

Side two

Personnel
Duke Ellington (piano)
Charles Mingus (bass)
Max Roach (drums)

Dynamic Range analyzis

Technical Log

Personal Note

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Posted By: rokosh Date: 04 Sep 2010 08:59:06

Wow, remember listening to this on cassette way back when- and it was great even so! Looking forward to this and as always, thanks for the Redbook.

Posted By: pca Date: 04 Sep 2010 09:34:39

muchas gracias, aksman

Posted By: Equalizer23 Date: 04 Sep 2010 10:31:28

Monster jam
Thanks

Posted By: chtimixeur Date: 04 Sep 2010 11:04:37

You're on fire these days. Thanks for all those jazz rips :)

Posted By: derBaker Date: 04 Sep 2010 11:19:08

Yeah, Thanks for this gem.

Posted By: nedjo Date: 04 Sep 2010 12:25:18

Thanks aksman,

Posted By: hiz Date: 04 Sep 2010 14:17:06

Ooh Ooh Ooh Hmmm - Thanks Aksman!

Posted By: oleg_zap Date: 04 Sep 2010 16:41:54

Thanks Aksman!

Posted By: dadaphony Date: 04 Sep 2010 19:27:35

this is the post of the month if you ask me.
Thanks again aksman keep the mingus coming, there's no such thing as having to many mingus records.

Posted By: jaspiongirl Date: 04 Sep 2010 19:32:20

Thank you, brother aksman.

Posted By: StirBlues Date: 04 Sep 2010 19:57:27

The current cd version is horrendous, thank you so much for the fabulous update!

Posted By: johhenrik Date: 04 Sep 2010 22:16:38

Very nice, thanks!

Posted By: crook3d Date: 05 Sep 2010 10:35:07

I used to hate this album up until a few months ago. And I have no idea either. It contains two people that are among my top favorite jazz artists(duke and monk), so I have no idea why I didn't like this. But now I do, and it's nice to have a vinyl rip of this. Especially an aksman vinyl rip.

Thank you for your work. It is very appreciated.

Posted By: cheredov Date: 05 Sep 2010 12:24:04

Thank You!

Posted By: Kosako Date: 05 Sep 2010 16:16:33

Excelente Aksman..muchas gracias ..

Posted By: SuperFuzz Date: 06 Sep 2010 14:05:51

Excellent share, thanks! You must have been buying up the remaining copies of Classic Records...

Posted By: blue note Date: 06 Sep 2010 14:28:55

awesome setting. best duke! :)

Posted By: kobaha Date: 07 Sep 2010 04:24:36

thanks a lot.

Posted By: max2max01 Date: 15 Sep 2010 12:36:32

Big thanks for your transfer ! Wonderful recording but poorly recorded.

Compared to the 2 cd releases (97 & 2002), the balance is inversed & the vinyl version include the original mix (really nice to hear that) instead of (two) new remixes from the multitracks.

The average recording is not improved on the remixes because piano distorsion are on the multitracks and cannot be reduced and the hiss is always too present.
The latest cd edition suffer from some limiting (not on each track) that are not present on vinyl and 1st cd remix (1997).
There are reverb on the piano on the second (2002) remix.

The remix reduce the stereo panning but unfortunatley not improve the sound, it's not worst but not better too, just different & maybe a little more aggressive on the mids.

The cd edition include bonus tracks.

Posted By: Beyle Date: 16 Feb 2011 22:44:32

Thank you, Aksman!

Posted By: jazzever Date: 02 Mar 2011 20:12:40

Great share Aks,thank you..!!

Posted By: anahoret Date: 12 Sep 2011 07:13:29

@aksman

Part 3 File Factory not available, please upload

Posted By: strange_dream Date: 27 Sep 2011 16:30:37

Thanks

Posted By: vlad8888 Date: 12 Feb 2012 17:24:48

Thanks a million for all of your efforts on this and so many other lp transfers! If you'll allow just a small nitpick, please: the last 2 tracks on side 1 exhibit a bit of wow...is it possible the pressing was rather off-center? Without a removable spindle centering is a pain, and can involve gouging a bit extra out of the center hole...I'm always reluctant to do it, but have resorted to this method a few times!

Thank you!!

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