• ATLANTIC 75TH ANNIVERSARY SERIES
• 180-gram 45 RPM double LP
• Pressed at Quality Record Pressings
• Tip-on old style gatefold double pocket jacket

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 Atom

PERSONNEL:

Charlie Mingus - (piano, vocals)
Roland Kirk - (flute, siren, tenor sax, manzello, strich)
Booker Ervin - (tenor sax)
Jimmy Knepper - (trombone)
Doug Watkins - (bass)
Dannie Richmond - (drums)

LP ONE:

A1. Hog Callin' Blues

B1. Devil Woman
B2. Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am
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LP TWO:

C1. Ecclusiastics
C2. Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me

D1. Eat That Chicken
D2. Passions Of A Man